While driving about searching for rentals in New!Town yesterday, I stopped at a light and waited the excessively long time you always wait when turning left from an expressway, and watched a guy in droopy jeans walking. He swung his arms like he might be trying out for a bit part in a play, maybe “man walking with Great Purpose and Vigor”, and if he’s lucky he might be chosen to paint the backdrop. I would have thought it an aberration but I looked the other way and saw a professionally dressed woman in the crosswalk doing the same walk — arms swinging, long strides, head up and back, march!
They were of two ethnicities, dressed to fit in two different demographics, and so I started to wonder — is this just the way people in this town walk? Was one of them making fun of the other? And why did the guy reverse course twice, walking along the same half a block?
I also wanted to know why the apartments I wanted to live in were all occupied, but that’s rather less a mystery — of course affordable AND nicely appointed will be occupied. Come Sunday I’ll likely be in my friend’s guest room.
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