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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
When is unwanted male attention ever a good thing?
Apparently, it *can* be good...in very very specific instances. I witnessed one such scenario today. I was getting on the train, when a man struck up a conversation with a women sitting across from me. I didn’t listen very closely until i noticed that other people were paying attention to the interaction. At first, I thought he was really gutsy, but i became confuse by their relationship--it seemed that he knew her from some prior context. She was friendly enough, though didn’t seem to have any burden to speak more to him. He continued on in his friendly banter until we came to his stop. He said his good-byes and exited.
...Only to leap back on the train again! The man next to me let out a flabbergasted comment about how obvious the man was and why wouldn’t women do that for him. The train leaper made an embarrased remark about how he got off at the wrong stop and continued to talk to his “friend.” She politely responded. The train finally arrived at his “real” stop, and so he bid her farewell, and leaped off the train again.
No sooner had the doors shut than the man sitting next to her said, “Phew, I thought he’d never shut up! For awhile he had me convinced that you knew him!” She responded playfully, “Oh, so you *don’t* go up to random women on the train?” The man next to me chuckled, “I bet he has to catch a train going back downtown so he can actually go home!” The woman next to that man threw her 2 cents worth in. For about 5 minutes, everyone exchanged pleasant jokes all, of course, at the suitor’s expense. Conversation eventually died down, but each person had a warm glow and a smile on his or her face--an unusual site in NY’s MTA. As each rider reached their stop, the participants bid each other good-bye as if they were old friends.
It was a peaceful moment on the ride home tonight.