Me scrolling through the obituaries in my hometown newspaper on my lunch break.
Co-worker comes in & sits down.
"Watcha doing?"
Me: "Reading the...um...shopping. You know, Amazon or whatever."
Boss: "Do you have plans for the weekend?"
Me: "It's Doom Metal night at the bowling alley. Do you want to go?"
Boss: "Absolutely."
Boss: "Wait. You're serious."
Radio station playing set about NYC subway.
Husband & I start swapping in lyrics about naked homeless people masturbating/ vomiting; beatings, assault, and other crimes.
We can't be the only people for whom riding the train daily was disgusting, scary, and otherwise unsavory.
Customer: "It was so hot outside I was smoking."
Me: "You were smoking outside?"
Customer: "Well, I can't smoke inside anymore, can I, Kyle?"
#inflectionmatters