the regulars

I think for some point in eveyone's life they should commute at least an hour too and from their place of work. without my morning commute i would miss out on endless hours of quality people watching.

when you've been commuting for a year as i have, you begin to notice a certain "regular" crowd. and while your waiting for your train/bus/goat/golfcart/lark scooter to arrive.... you will find your own personal set of regulars that you start to have an attachment to.

lets start from the top.....

person i watch #1
pillow cruncher
this man is about 6'8" and build like a wooly iltalian/spanish gorillla. he is notorious for always shoving all kinds of people aside to forage for a seat, almost always sitting in the middle seat of a three seat bench sticking up like a dandelion in the grass. now lets get to his name..... we will start from the end and work our way to the front.... cruncher... this man has a certain penchant for baked lays potato chips and brings them with him every single day, no exceptions. he waits until he is seated, always between two tired overworked financial analysts and he breaks out his snack. he does not eat them like a normal person though, he stacks three chips on top of one another and then forces the stack into his mouth unbroken, upon the crunch down, he creates a high-def, surround sound crunching that can be heard three cars back. and once he has completed his louder than once knew chips could be snack, he proceeds to take his afternoon nap........in comes the pillow part.... he dons an inflatable, bolo tie-on contour neck pillow.... there is nothing better than a giant man wearing a neck pillow.... and for that i love him.

person #2
hoochie
.... do i need to say much more? the name is self explanitory. this woman is the metro north morning commuter slut, a spanish woman who travels from man to man sharing her woes and her low cut selena-esk tops. we chose the name hoochie because she truly is the essence of that term, shes not a whore or a slut, she's just a hoochie mamma (in the sixth grade sense of the word)

person #3
jew-fro
this man is a little squirrely guy with a large white man jew-fro. he wears a backpack up around his neck and ear plugs. he has no mercy when it comes to getting a seat. he is like a quarterback zipping through the defensive line with no regard to the people he shoves out of bounds, which in the past have actually included the elderly and pregnant.

i wonder what people think of me.
more to follow...