Before I visited Pennsylvania, everyone warned me that Philadelphia people are the toughest, most impatient people in America.
I believed them until I walked toward the front door of a Wawa gas station.
I was still forty feet away in the parking lot, walking between rows of cars.
A massive construction worker in steel-toe boots, carrying a twenty-four-ounce coffee in one hand and a paper-wrapped hoagie in the other, pushed open the glass door to leave. Then he saw me.
He stopped. He planted his boot against the bottom of the door. And he waited.
Forty feet is a very long distance when a grown man is holding a door for you in the wind.
In Japan, to make a stranger wait carries great shame. So I broke into that awkward half-jog every man performs when he wishes to show gratitude without looking like he is fleeing a crime.
"Go ahead, boss," he said as I passed.
Ten minutes later, as I walked out with my own sandwich, I saw an elderly woman locking her car thirty feet away.
I planted my foot against the glass. I held the door.
Another man behind me held the inner door. Within seconds we had formed an impromptu honor guard of grumpy men holding glass doors in complete silence.
Philadelphia may boo Santa Claus.
But inside the three-foot radius of a Wawa doorway, they have the manners of the imperial court.
I lived through Chip Kelly and 4-11-1 it’ll be fine.
I lived through Chip Kelly and 4-11-1 it’ll be fine
I lived through Chip Kelly and 4-11-1 it’ll be fine
I lived through Chip Kelly and 4-11-1 it’ll be fine
I lived through Chip Kelly and 4-11-1 it’ll be fine
"I had a calf injury that ended up being a pulmonary embolism..
The blood clots left my calf & got into my bloodstream..
They went thru my heart & ended up in my lungs..
I've been on blood thinners ever since & I'll be on them for the rest of my life" ~ @KirkHerbstreit
#PMSLive
A lot of uninformed comments are calling them stupid but they were pretty transparent on stream on why this is okay. They're in Katmai National Park and since hunting is banned here and visitors have been diligent about not feeding bears, bears here are habitutuated to humans-
FIGHT OF THE YEAR
It just kept going and kept on getting better. And shout out the bystanders who kept a rule of law whenever it teetered on too far (mainly the guy trying to bash skulls with the extinguisher)
I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up. I will not get my hopes up.