August 25, 2008

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  Lunch time I took a walk as I normally did.  I went around the park as usual but I decided to go inside the library across the park.  I went from room to room and visited the computer room.  There I witnessed a fight.  Two young men sitting in front of their computers.  They were not next to each others but there were three other people between the two young men.  Perhaps they exchanged words earlier but when I was there one challenged the other to come outside to settle their business.  The challenged person refused to go, so the challenger took off his shirt and à-la-assault.  They fought hard, hitting each other heads against the desks and computers.  I ran and told some one, hurry up and get security, please.  As I was heading to the door, the security person who came in was a morbidly obese woman.  I wondered how she could defuse two black bulls charging each other.  

  I got out the library and went around the park again.  All my acquaintances were there.  A guy who I never saw his face sat on a newspaper on the same spot almost every day.  Four guys were chatting by the fence.  A guy slept under the shade of a tree with his bag under his leg.  There was a new person who lay flat on the ground without anything to cover the ground.  A large flock of small birds were new to me but more than a dozen pigeons followed a swollen leg bag lady to eat her popcorn were acquaintances of mine.  Sometimes when I grew very tired in my walk, I thought; being able to take a nap under the tree, in the summer breeze, to hear pigeons cooing on the green lawn around me while the world was fighting for weatlth and fame and privilege and some other stupid non sense reasons, would be fantastic.

  My company has updated new train cars which have two levels.  Other lines have the two level train cars for a while but my line which has fewer riders just recently have test run at certain hours during a day.  Today I took the 5:17 pm to go home so I got to ride the new car.  The cars look nice and modern.  The seats are roomier.  I was reading the second book of the triology “The Lord of The Rings.”  Each time the train got into one of its stations it did not blow its horns the same way the old cars did.  It had some digital sound quite strange but charming.  I sat on the upper level for a short time.  The train gently swayed as it zoomed fast forward.  The lower level was steadier as its gravity center was nearer to the ground, perhaps.  The seats of the lower level car are a few inches above the car floor.  I am so used to with the old car floor which is the same level as the seats.  It means when I stand up and get out I do not have to step down.  As the train got into my station, I got up and tried to get out.  I did not remember where I stood was a step higher than its floor, so I missed the step and fell.  I was embarrassed although everyone showed their concern.  Ouch, my back, my left leg and ankle, and my left writst are hurt.  Someday, an older person may fall and break a bone, then they will sue my company.  I think they have to get rid of that extra step.

   

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