#i am so sorry but this is so funny
A person on the train I still think about was this woman a few years back–pre COVID. Maybe mid-late twenties. She was holding a wrapped present so tightly to her chest and was blushing. She would put the present in her lap and look at it, touching the ribbon gently with her fingers, then would hold it to herself again, just smiling so brightly. It was such an intimate snapshot of a person. She was so happy and excited. Fidgety but not nervous. It was such a genuinely joyful moment this woman could barely contain in public, and it stuck with me all this time later. It makes me wonder what moments in my life stuck with someone else that I had no idea would be ingrained in their minds. My guess would be the time I ate shit on a patch of ice outside the 7/11 and had to go in and the cashier pretended not to have seen.
I think mine would be the time I almost missed my stop on the last bus home and my brain switched to survival mode bc the next stop was in another town and I busted through the closing door, missed the curb, fell and skinned both my knees and elbows while my headphones unplugged (my phone survived the two metre skid on the sidewalk, my tender skin did not)
I don’t think I’ll ever forget staring at the ground on all fours while Cheerleader by OMI blasted from my speakers and roughly forty people just watched in complete silence
the bus driver even stopped and waited for me to get up which was very sweet but also it just gave more staring time to the passengers so I, in my endless misery and pain, just waved at him like he was an old pal or something and dartedinto the closest unlit street to immediately trip again
yeah I think they saw
LMAO SO SWEET AND SO FUNNY
