Thursday, August 19, 2010

city living

A 30 something year old black woman in a fabulous camel coat, brown heels and straw hat (who was probably on a lot of drugs) to a very attractive black professional man in stripes trying to read his newspaper just after rush hour on the metro:

"What's the difference between a pig and a lamb?"

He ignored her. She asked again, "Are they the same thing?"
He realized it wasn't a come-on or the beginning of a dirty joke and tried to answer her question.

The train started again and the noise of the rails drowned out their conversation. After she got off the train, though, that man grinned to himself through the next three stops.

It kind of made my day, too.

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