Sunday, March 22, 2009

Why I don't have a cell phone...I don't want strangers to know my business

I was on the streetcar the other day, bored, when this guy near me started talking loudly on his cell phone. I discerned, over the course of his 10 minute call, that he was talking to his sister's boyfriend, and that he was encouraging him to "stand up", "be a man", and "take some responsibility."

Apparently the boyfriend was cheating, and the brother knew about it. And unlike this other girl Natasha, who doesn't care if you have a girlfriend or wife, the sister cares if her boyfriend is fucking other people. Good to know. Everyone on the streetcar heard him. It was crowded but quiet, and his voice carried. It was actually kind of sweet -- I hope that my brother would do the same for me.

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