Monday, May 16, 2011
Maybe It All Really Does Come Together for a Reason
I just did my laundry at my local laundry-doing place and noticed two important things:
1) the owner, who was there, did not speak one word of Cantonese the entire 2 1/2 hours I was there, for the first time in nearly three years; and
2) a young man came in and asked for a "case quarter" at a laundromat. A case quarter. At a laundromat. And the owner told him they didn't have one. Ha! (Thanks to Dr. Hadley for educating me what a case quarter was many years ago, otherwise it wouldn't have been funny.)
Less importantly, I also noticed again how little people in Brooklyn seem to regard other people's time, money and just about anything else. And yet, here I sit, waiting for my landlord to come fix my toilet and I'm watching "Raid on Entebbe" on my DVR while working on my thesis stuff. Terrorists, book learning and broken toilets. Oh dear lord, give me a break.
