Things I Overheard on the Train To and From Newark

1. Three very loud women discussing how loud they were.

2. A discussion of how some woman's fifth grader smells when he comes in from outside.

3. A very involved cell phone conversation trying to explain where to women were to people on the same three-car-long train.

4. Two conductors talking about mini-cheeseburgers.

5. Far more questions about where the only train on the platform goes than is reasonable from a pack of adults.

6. Tales of the girlfriends of the fifth grader in #2.

What is wrong with people?

When it's pouring rain, and you're in your nice warm, dry SUV and I am walking through the freezing cold, wet parking lot, why on Earth would it be okay to speed up and block my path on my long walk, rather than just pause for a moment and let me keep walking?