Body Check Count for June 25, 2008: 4

I don't understand something, maybe you can explain it to me: why is it so difficult for people to notice when they're blocking a sidewalk? And I mean completely blocking a sidewalk. No sidewalk to spare. Not an inch.

The first 3 body checks came in quick succesion 1, 2, 3. These were nearly inevitable due to the aformentioned Sidewalk Blockers. There was a group of tourists who had parked their mini bus on a side street that just happens to be beside the Metro. As these 15 or so people stood there thinking about other ways to make it difficult for me to get to work, 8 or so people came from the other direction attempting to head to the Metro from when I had just come. In a rather unfortunate series of events I managed to body check three of them. Since we were all in a hurry, no one said anything which is just as I like it: "Check and Run." (Akin to "Punch Him in The Face and Run" which is not dissimilar to "Park the Car and Run.")

Number 4 was a completely different story.

Number 4 was walking with Suit 1 and Suit 2 and was dressed in a nice pink dress. Like all Suits, 1 and 2 feel much bigger than they are and thus decided not to adjust their position on the sidewalk to allow Number 4 appropriate non-body-check space. Now, Number 4 could have slowed her pace or even quickened her pace to give space to myself and the other members of the working force who were on their way to work, but she chose to stay where she was: on the end of a 3-person line across the width of a 3-person sidewalk. It was an unfortunate set of circumstances that lead to her body check, but to quote Carlotta: these things do happen.

Now, for those of you out there who are asking "Well, why didn't YOU move, Ms. Body Check?" Simple: there was nowhere for me to go. And until I perfect the art of walking through trees and small brick walls, the body checks will keep coming.

It's kind of obvious

While waiting for our bags last night, I witnessed a man pick up this pink suitcase, look at the name tag on it, and then put it back on the conveyer belt at least twice.

If your suitcase looked like this, don't you think you could recognize it from a mile away? What do you think would be a logical guess of how many people own this particular suitcase and how many of them would be on the same flight as you?

Exactly.