A Short History of Today

[pantryslut]

1. Thanks to a confluence of circumstances, I was left trying to find a public phone in Jack London Square in the dinner hour. I failed, but the Waterfront Hotel let me use their reception phone.

2. I also missed a ferry due to my own shyness and incompetence. At least I didn't *get on* the wrong ferry.

2a. Kids' first ferry ride!

3. People on buses routinely (and cheerfully!) give up their seats for my daughters. It's kind of bizarre, considering that nobody has ever given up their seat for me before for any reason, up to and including being pregnant or pushing a double stroller. They help my children on and off the bus, too.

4. April met a May and a June, both sitting one seat in front of her on the F train.

5. "I'm a boy every day. No, I'm just kidding. I do boy things." Later: "What are boy things?" "Coloring. Painting. Running really fast." Kid, you just signed yourself up for a lot of women's Olympic track and field watching, sorry.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

The -- oh, you mean the trolley!

(Could not imagine how you'd gotten to Brooklyn in that short a time.)

[pantryslut]

:) April insists it's a train (well, it runs on tracks...), and I have picked up the usage.

[onyxlynx]

Fair enough! (Did we do that at that age? Would our mums remember?)

[onyxlynx]

How did the ladies like the ferry, anyway?

[pantryslut]

They loved it! We got to pass under the bridge, and ogle lots of really big freighters, and we could see Steven's workplace from the water.