Planes, trains...

Since I am staying in downtown Philly this week, I am taking the train to work each day. For some reason, navigating the purchase and use of my $400 plane ticket doesn’t freak me out NEARLY as much as my $7 train ride. But seeing as I have plenty of time to hang out in the downtown train station, here are some of the more interesting things I have seen:

• Not one, but THREE different people going to work dressed as Benjamin Franklin. I could NOT work in Philly…I fear the dress code.
• Each day, the same well-dressed lady claiming to be stranded after accidentally forgetting her purse at home. I only gave her money the first two days.
• The inspiration for The Fisher King.
• An air conditioning system from 1945…glad I packed the suit
• A weird caste system where social position seems directly correlated to days since last shower. (No speculation on where i fit in, please.)
• The strange feeling that I am riding in the bus again while all the cool kids drive to school.
• A Chinese grocery, three news stands, the last non-automated ticket booth in the country, approximately 215 ATMs and not. A single. Starbucks!!! And me with a gift card and everything.
• One nervous, tall accountant asking that “stranded” lady for directions. For a fiver.