Listen, ride any kind of public transportation and walk downtown in a big city every day and suddenly the weird things you may have noticed before, seem to not be a big deal anymore.

At first you think “oh, ok there’s homeless people everywhere” You keep walking, looking straight forward the entire time. Then after enough time you start to get curious, you glance over here and there, checking out what they are up to. You start to read the signs they put up, overhear brief parts of the stories they tell to strangers. But you never get too close because after all, they are still desperate people who need to do what they have to, to survive.

Now the worst thing you can do is assume the crazy people are the same as the homeless people, while most times it seems like there is a direct correlation between crazy and homeless, but the city is a strange place. In the city it seems like if you interact with a stranger more than likely they will be slightly to moderately insane.

Lastly I would like to say, if you claim you enjoy riding a metro or some kind of transit every day, then you are a liar and you really need to stop lying to yourself. Because really at its best moment its bearable, and those are the rare times when; it pulls up right when you get there, it’s empty, you have something to distract you from the journey, it isn’t noisy, it doesn’t smell and your seat is comfortable. Ok really what I am trying to say is it sucks, always, because all those things will never happen, especially all at the same time. At the same time…. traffic sucks, so maybe its worth riding all the way to school, everyday, pushed up against a stranger….. maybe.

Ps. Two big things; battlefield 3 is out and amazing, and I am now in my second term at VFS!