Check my phone, its twelve thirty five. I look up nobody is smiling or laughing, just blank stares gazing into the abyss. I look around at the people reading their newspapers or kindles and think “I wish i had something like that to make this situation less awkward.” The woman that I’m looking at glances up, I quickly check my phone it is now twelve thirty six. I still have fifteen minutes left before I get off. I look up to check if she has returned her attention back to the book that she was lost in before I interrupted. Luckily she has, so I continue to scan the area to try and find some kind of entertainment.
The car slows down and comes to a complete stop. A group of men enter the car right before the doors shut. Not thinking anything of it I look down to mind my own business. One man begins to make a beat using just his mouth. The others join in and soon all the men are singing. They slowly walk up the car begging for money. Almost everybody looks away to divert their attention to something else. I pull out my phone and look down at it just to avoid eye contact. I look at it for two minutes before the car again slows down to a complete stop. The men get off and everything is back to normal. Well, normal in an awkward sort of way. It is times like these that I wish I had gone away to school. I mean think about it, I could be back at my dorm right now doing something productive like sleeping. Instead I have to be wasting an hour and a half of my life every day just trying to get home. The train stops. The conductor speaks through the P.A. system to announce that somebody on the train needs medical attention and we will be delayed. I check the time it is twelve forty.
