Re:Iron Ring
by format on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:51PM
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I was at the grocery store and the cashier motioned to my hand and showed me her ring and we had a short discussion. I felt happy that I had this bond with a person I had never met and then immediately very sad that she was working as a cashier in a grocery store.
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Re:Iron Ring
by stygiansonic on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:19PM
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I've also had a few interesting discussions. One was also with a cashier, who I discovered had graduated from my alma mater with a degree in geological engineering. She was now working on poetry and other writing and she seemed genuinely happy with what she was doing. More power to her.
Another was when I visited New York for the marathon. Ran into another fellow at the airport who recognized I was from Canada because of my MEC backpack. I then noticed he had on a ring and turned out he was a professor who had once taught at my alma mater.