Sometimes I forget what it's like to live in a city. While Durham is very urban, it is definitely not a city in the same way that DC was. Using public transportation, dealing with crazy people, navigating crowds, these are tall things that I haven't had to deal with much for the last 8 years. Today, after taking the tram to meet up with some friends, I hopped on the tram to head back to the classrooms to get some work done. About midway throughout he ride a woman got on with her baby firmly secured to her. I looked down and she was barefoot.
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| Her baby also has no shoes, but at least he/she is wearing socks |
Now there's nothing inherently wrong with going barefoot. I used to do it all the time when I was a kid, but I wasn't walking around in a city with broken glass, filthy sidewalks - I was walking in my neighborhood or at the beach.
The other thing that I saw today was a zombie-like scene at the Saturn. Saturn is basically like Best Buy, and I was going to stop by there to see if I could get a new battery for my old phone - hoping to be able to at least get the information off of the phone. The store opened at 10am, and at about 9:45 a crowd started forming and waiting to enter the building. As it got closer to opening time, the people started getting closer and closer to the doors, looking in and almost pressing their faces up against the glass. It reminded me of something out of a zombie movie.
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| Electronics Zombies |
The only time I have really seen this in the US is on Black Friday, and then it's certainly more of a panic, but I thought this orderly zombie hoard was interesting.
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