**POW!!**
my morning routine is to skate with g as he rides his bike to school. then i head off to the train station. the train takes me two blocks from our office building. a monthly pass costs about as much as gas. and takes slightly longer. if you don't count the times i fall asleep and miss my stop. anywho, one morning i got to the station just in time for the 8:00 train. the people crossing gates were down. i and several others were waiting patiently. i was using the time to remove my skates. they don't let you on with skates. duh. they don't let you on the train with just socks either. which i think is kinda weird but okay. they will however let you on the train with your laces untied. which is just dumb. apparently there are pieces of metal flooring that are so sharp they will cut right through your socks and amputate your feet. but the same flooring is perfectly safe for your hands if you fall. but no one ever loses their balance when the train stops. anywho, i've spent enough time on stupidity. well, not quite. there was this one guy with us at the gate. he was getting antsy. thought he was gonna miss the train. this loser had really bad timing. he decided to climb over the gate at precisely the wrong moment. mid stride the lights stopped and the gate went up. **POW!!** right in the cookies.