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Sep. 18th, 2015 08:03 amWhich of the following two things that happened to me this week is more of a Sign That You Are In New England?
A: You get onto an Orange Line train and head for a group of three empty seats. They are empty largely because the woman sitting opposite them is an apparently homeless woman surrounded by bags and ranting to herself or anyone who will listen, or if not ranting, at least talking very passionately. She is talking about someone's marriage. Upon listening a little more closely it turns out she is ranting about Abigail and John Adams' marriage, with an added side bonus of distrusting Thomas Jefferson and something about Alexander Hamilton that you never quite hear.
OR
B: You are waiting to meet someone near the harbor seal display outside the New England Aquarium. Just as you are thinking about the idea that seals are dog mermaids, a group of people who have been taking photographs of the seals comes up to you and asks if you can help them with a scavenger hunt; they need someone who is not a member of their group to sing "Sweet Caroline" with them on video, because they are in Boston and that is a Thing. You do. The video ends with "IIIIII'VE BEEN INCLINED / TO BELIEVE THEY NEVER WOULD, mnnh mnh meh" because neither you nor the strangers can remember the rest of the song.
Ladies and gentlemen, my Wednesday and Thursday evening encounters, respectively.
A: You get onto an Orange Line train and head for a group of three empty seats. They are empty largely because the woman sitting opposite them is an apparently homeless woman surrounded by bags and ranting to herself or anyone who will listen, or if not ranting, at least talking very passionately. She is talking about someone's marriage. Upon listening a little more closely it turns out she is ranting about Abigail and John Adams' marriage, with an added side bonus of distrusting Thomas Jefferson and something about Alexander Hamilton that you never quite hear.
OR
B: You are waiting to meet someone near the harbor seal display outside the New England Aquarium. Just as you are thinking about the idea that seals are dog mermaids, a group of people who have been taking photographs of the seals comes up to you and asks if you can help them with a scavenger hunt; they need someone who is not a member of their group to sing "Sweet Caroline" with them on video, because they are in Boston and that is a Thing. You do. The video ends with "IIIIII'VE BEEN INCLINED / TO BELIEVE THEY NEVER WOULD, mnnh mnh meh" because neither you nor the strangers can remember the rest of the song.
Ladies and gentlemen, my Wednesday and Thursday evening encounters, respectively.
