For most schools around here, this is the last week of summer. For the past few weeks I’ve had peaceful journeys to work, sitting reading my book in a quiet carriage, sometimes with empty seats around me. All that is about to change.
It started today with the Dawson students who thankfully are old enough to be reasonably restrained, but on Monday it will be bedlam. The train will be full of screaming 12 year olds with their cell phones and ipods and all the souvenirs of a summer spent having way too much fun. They will be in a frenzy of excitement at least for the first few days until school has drilled all the fun out of them, then they’ll just be mildly hysterical. They’ll be running up and down the aisle, throwing stuff at each other, flirting, fighting, gossiping, screeching and generally being teenagers.
Oh well, maybe I’ll be more awake when I get to work now.
