September 2010
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Public Transit Adventure #12
Today on the subway I saw something beautiful. A young black family got on, the father tattooed and holding a Build-A-Bear box and the beautiful mother carrying her toddler son. They sat down next to half of a Hasidic family already on the train—the father and two sons—across from his wife and two more children. The little boy stared at the Hasidic children with their peyos, and they...
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Public Transit Adventure #11
The New Jersey Dollar Van.
That just sounds sketchy, doesn’t it?
In the continued tour of NY area public transportation that is my tutoring job, I now once a week ride the A line up to George Washington Bridge and take the dollar van to a home in Bergen County. Since the “van” is a minibus and the price is more like $3, the actual name—something much less...
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A list of the weird things I've carried on the...
And I’ll keep adding to this…
2 mirrors (on separate occasions, but damn were they heavy!)
A greasy pizza slice wrapped in Saran Wrap, not aluminum foil
A heavy glass terrarium of cactuses and succulents
A freshly baked peach cobbler with Diane von Furstenberg handkerchiefs as potholders
12 library books at one time without a bag or, apparently, a brain
Weird things I’ve...
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When this actually gets built I'll eat those... →
