Day 12: Singing to Work

Day 12

by Zack Eustis

I wanted to sled today but the flakes did not keep falling last night like I hoped they would. While sledding has been deferred to another day, I loosened up my vocal chords this morning by singing "Marry Me" by the Drive By Truckers on the way to work. If you don't know it, please, download it immediately. Your experience with the awesomeness that is this song should not be limited to my music-less karaoke version. The trip itself was very enjoyable, though as you'll see in the video I started losing my breath near the end of the second verse.

Here is an interchange between two kindergartners that I overheard this morning:

Boy kindergartner said, "I have two girlfriends. Two. You are one of them and (Susie) is the other."

Girl Kindergartner: "What?!"

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After school today I went to the corner store to buy some ketchup. A lady stepped into line at the same time as me and we had the awkward interchange of deciding who would go first. I let her go ahead. She didn't immediately acknowledge it. She paid for her things and walked out the door without so much as a head nod. When I got to the counter the cashier told me she'd already paid for my ketchup. I walked out of the store and watched her get behind the wheel of the city bus she was driving and waved at her until she finally saw me and waved back. It was just a bottle of ketchup, which I presumably got for being moderately polite, but I feel a lot better about the world than I did before I walked into the convenience store.