That's Entertainment

People do all sorts of things to keep themselves entertained during their daily long commutes to and from the office.  I opt for more traditional entertainment pursuits like practicing sleeping on the morning ride and reading real books and magazines on the evening ride.  Occasionally I work on my computer but that's about it in terms of my entertainment.  Tonight, though, I noticed several much more exotic train-riding pursuits.  The woman sitting next to me, for instance, was knitting.  And not just ordinary, two-needle knitting.  She had five (I counted) fine-gauged needles going at once.  The woman across the aisle from her, on the other hand, was practicing a piece of music on an electronic keyboard about the size of two piano octaves.  We couldn't hear what she was playing because she had her headphones plugged in, which silenced the performance.  I would like to have heard it though.  Anyway, what are the odds that two such interesting people would grace our car this evening?  When they departed the train, the fun of watching them vanished and the rest of us ordinary riders just picked up our boring books and magazines and began flipping through the pages.