These are some truly interesting
people who look at life from an entirely different, and at times, fascinating
perspective. I talked football with some
and metaphysics with another (I think that’s what it was).
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| The Morning Crowd |
One of the voices of
inappropriate value cornered me for a tortuous twenty minutes where I finalized
my personal verdict for her – severe cognitive issues. I also learned the source of her in depth
knowledge of the bus system - she is “dating” one of the worst bus drivers we
have.
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| Our First Fully Electric Bus Coming in From its First Trip Ever |
One of the few people who
actually used the cross walk fell down and sprayed the crowd with ice
coffee. I went over to find out why we
had a guy sprawled on the ground. He was
surrounded by the coffee soaked crowd and was trying to get up and asking for
assistance. One of those “I’ve fallen
and can’t get up” moments. Everyone in
the crowd refused to help because they were afraid of getting sued – like I
said – an entirely different perspective.
I asked the guy if he wanted
help and he admitted he was more embarrassed than hurt and needed to get up to
make his bus. I helped him to his feet
while everybody around started to explain to him why they didn’t help. Off he went to his bus and job at a local
deli – I might avoid that place in the future.
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| The Afternoon Bunch |
All in all it was a good
day. The schedule changes worked exactly
as designed. Some people will never be
happy but the entire tone of the conversation down there has changed, amazing. This is one of the reasons I enjoy working in
Worcester – really exotic denizens.
Speaking of exotic denizens,
I accidently re-read one of my favorite author’s, John Ringo, book Eye of
the Storm. His stuff is finally on
the kindle net and I ordered this thinking I hadn’t read it but fifty pages in
realized that I had.
I guess this is another sign
of aging because I can see not remembering a title but taking fifty pages is a
bit troubling. I love Ringo’s battle
scenes which are amongst the most compelling I’ve ever read. He’s obviously spent time in uniform because
his description of unit dynamics are always spot on. This is a book spent setting up a climatic
end to his Legacy of the Aldenata series and its fun to finally have the Darhel
back on their heels. Unfortunately too
much time is spent getting into excruciating detail on some of the background
which is not Ringo’s strength; this was probably needed to flesh out the book
to proper size. Ringo is so popular now that editors must have much less
impact. Luckily the battle scenes are
worth wading through the rest of it.
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