Today on the light rail, everybody was pissed…
….except the man that asked me about the weather.

This morning at the light rail platform, the Metro SWAT team was back in action. Two were issuing tickets and one was kind of holding a man and probably waiting for a metro car. I noticed the tag on one of the man’s uniform was “Master Peace Office”. We’ll call him MasterPO. MasterPO was giving a woman a ticket that seemed to give two shits she was being ticketed.

SheDoWhatSheWants: “I gotsa get to this address and get on da 42 bus.”
MasterPO: “You needa get off at da UofH stop.”

…….For those of you who do not know, the University of Houston is nowhere near the light rail….and UofH-Downtown (completely different school in the process of changing its name) is at the North end of the line, the opposite direction he was pointing…

MasterPO: “uh um yeah da next stop da UofH/HCC stop.”
SheDoWhatSheWants: “So da UofH stop?”
MasterPO: “Uh yeah, hol up..ey..what da next stop?”
This question was directed to his female counterpart…she was busy scolding a man about not bringing a bike on the train during peak hours.
MasterPO: looks back at SheDoWhatSheWants “Yeah da UofH stop that’s next.”

I’m sitting there wanting to tell the lady the stop is actually not where UofH is located and is called Ensemble/HCC. Ensemble because it’s where Ensemble theatre is located, a historic part of Houston, as it has been preserving African American artistic expression since the 70s. And HCC because that’s where the main campus is located. So, MasterPO, that is why the station is called Ensemble/HCC and not “uhhhh UofH/HCC”.

But it’s not over…

The light rail comes and I feel like the mood has been set for the morning. Everybody is PO’ed. The female cop makes a man with a bike get off the train because it’s “too crowded”….ummm not really. That man is pissed and starts talking mess. The woman with the ticket who was given poor directions by a man that WORKS for Metro starts rambling off about “stupid a$$ PoPos”. She meant to say Master Peace Officer. Then everybody on the train starts talking about how the “Metro platforms suck anyways”.

So basically it was all music to my ears.

And then a man asked me if it was supposed to rain today. And I got pissed off. (read here if you’re a new follower to understand that statement)

Moral of the story: Put a smile on, Houston. And learn how to give directions.

Today on the lightrail……….dammit not ANOTHER post about the weather!

I’ll spare you the conversation I had today about the weather.  The brief story:
Man complains about Texas weather.
Katie giggles.
Man says he’ll be shedding his jacket in an hour.
That’s why Katie didn’t wear a jacket.
Man says he’s from Florida and likes the sun.
Katie likes the sun too.
Man asks where Katie’s from.
Katie says Houston.
Man mistakes Katie as a student.
Katie corrects him and points out the fact she has a college degree.
Man makes a point to compliment Katie’s sunglasses.
Katie smiles.
Man rambles more about the weather and girls wearing less clothes.

Katie takes this picture of homeless man while man #1 is talking:

Today on the lightrail, a man asked me if it was going to rain today.

Now, I suppose you could believe he didn’t get a chance to watch the news, which is exactly what he told me, but it was raining as he said this…………………

All I could think was that scene in Mean Girls when Karen says: “There’s a 30% chance it’s already raining!”  I thought about reenacting that scene for him, but I figured it was NSFLR.

Moral of the story: I guess he doesn’t have that fifth sense that helps him predict the weather like I do.

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