i had a funny moment in a subway station. i couldn’t find my monthly pass for the subway. was getting frantic, as it’s expensive, and so took everything out of my bag, and set each thing down, one by one, on this big rusty metal trunk thing, right there in the station… as i was going through this (futile) exercise, this guy, he was the station janitor, comes up to me, and teases me, (gently) ‘hey, i’ll only let you use that space if you have something good to eat in there for me!’ as luck would have it, i actually had a coffee candy in there, and as a lark, i gave it to him when he reappeared a few minutes later…. he was tickled that his joking remark had actually gotten him some candy…
and then, when he saw me fumbling for my money at the metrocard machine (having given up on finding my darn monthly pass) he thought the reason i was so frantic was that i had no money. The man actually wanted to give me two bucks to buy a metrocard! so sweet, no? a nice bit of humanity in a hectic day…
