Today I took a later train home, and sat near a train klatch of older men who lounged comfortably at the tables in the middle of the car. The conversation was dominated by a boisterous man with a shrill voice, who acted sort of like a moderator: “I heard this… what do you think about this… you’re wrong because of this…” Several times he yelled in excitement, causing more than a few people to “shush” him.
I managed to tune him out, until I heard him say, “I accidentally got on the third car last week, and you know who I saw? All the people who used to ride in this car! Until I came along!”
