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Some Things On My Mind

During my daily commute, a number of things have crossed my mind lately...

The first is free advice to tourists visiting the Big Apple:
1) When entering leaving a subway station or platform, stay to the RIGHT, please!
1B)During rush hours (6-9AM and 4-7PM) please don't dawdle and block the commuters. If you have to stop or are unsure of where you are heading, step to the side and get the heck out of the way!

2) Subways, busses and cabs are not amusement park rides, they are a form of transportation.

3) When buying lunch in a deli or other establishment, have an idea what the hell you want before you get in line! If not, you are holding up the line for those of us that live and work here and only have a limited time to get lunch.

Okay, I got that off my chest! I feel a little better now.

Next, to the strawberry blonde on the 4:43PM Path train out of 33rd street on Friday... Yes, I was looking and I knew that you saw me but I kept looking anyway and thanks for the show!

Fast forward to today. The wife and I went to see the movie "World Trade Center". It is an excellent movie that I highly recommend if you would not mind experiencing the events of that day again. The building collapses are experienced FROM INSIDE AND UNDERNEATH the buildings and are frighteningly real (at least as I imagine they would have been). I also must comment on the recreation of the buildings, lobbies and the aftermath - unbelievably real! I was inside and around those buildings many times from the time they were constructed up until they were destroyed and they were captured with incredible accuracy. I loved the movie - it made me cry, it angered me, it made me happy. A good movie should be able to do these things. I will say that the worst part for me was the credits. A list of the Port Authority police officers that died in the tragedy scrolled across the screen and I saw the name of a guy that grew up in the house next door to mine. We were not very friendly towards each other and I always thought he was kind of a jerk. We had not spoken in years but by all accounts I have heard he turned out to be a good husband and father and he was a very good police officer. May his soul and all those who were killed that day rest in peace.

posted by section306g @ 6:12 PM