{"id":211,"date":"2003-06-05T03:04:33","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T07:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/06\/05\/the-maddening-crowd\/"},"modified":"2003-06-05T03:04:33","modified_gmt":"2003-06-05T07:04:33","slug":"the-maddening-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/06\/05\/the-maddening-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maddening Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a61'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday through Wednesday I commute to work on the 38 Geary line, the 38BX in the morning, and whatever bus I can catch in the evening (I&#8217;ve been leaving the office past 7 pm, so the 38L is not an option).  Most of my bus rides have been crowded, and no matter how tired I am, I cannot ignore the humanity around me.  For instance, yesterday, on my ride home, a drunk man, who was dressed professionally, got on beer (in bag) in hand, and tried to strike up a conversation with everyone in the back of the bus.  To one woman, he remarked that her supervisor didn&#8217;t appreciate her; to the general audience, he stated that he got very talkative when drunk, to one man, he mis-judged and asked if he spoke Spanish, and to me, upon glancing at my obnoxiously oversized library mug, he congratulated me, with the &#8220;Harvard, wow, you did good.  I might need to call you for help one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, on the same bus ride home, I gave up my seat to a Chinese old lady. It made me sad though, because if I didn&#8217;t have a seat, I&#8217;m not sure if the other able-bodied adults would have sacrificed their seat.<\/p>\n<p>On this morning&#8217;s bus, I stood near a man, who had the appearance of an alcoholic (or former junkie) in his forties.  He scratched lottery tickets on his portfolio, then, he would furiously attempt to wipe all of the scrapings off of its surface.  His annoyance reached the point, where he stood up and tried to shake all of the flakes off of his clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have told me that the 38 Geary is the most used transit line in the country.  With it, you never know what you are going to get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday through Wednesday I commute to work on the 38 Geary line, the 38BX in the morning, and whatever bus I can catch in the evening (I&#8217;ve been leaving the office past 7 pm, so the 38L is not an option). Most of my bus rides have been crowded, and no matter how tired I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}