The wife and I and two friends escaped the heat today by taking the LIRR from Penn Station out to Long Beach. There, we joined the crowds paying $7 per person to get onto the beach and clear out our own little four foot by six foot area. I've never seen a beach so crowded--it was a chore to walk between the towels to get into the water. We left a two-foot gap between the next towel over, and that even filled up within minutes.
Still, the beach was a relief after the ride out there. I'm becoming more sympathetic to these rants about riders on the LIRR. The girl in the seat directly behind mine, or actually in front, because I was sitting backwards, talked about the most inane subjects the entire ride, getting progressively louder as the ride went on.
"I mean, I'm a good test taker, but I was so nervous about my driver's test."
"I didn't even study for the GRE, but I got a really good score, good enough to get me into NYU or Loyola, but I didn't go."
"I want to get an MBA, but I don't want to take the GMAT because I'm not good at math. Wait, that's not true. I don't want to take the GMAT because I actually want to go to law school."
"I want to study law at an international school for one year, to get all the legal shit out of the way."
"I have a passion for my JD."
"I sent my passport application in last week, and I know I'll get my passport next Thursday, so I'm not worried."
"The last time I got my passport, in the 90s, I paid like $80. This time I paid $100 and got it expedited, so I know it will come next week."
"I don't know about three years of law school. Maybe I'll go part time. It's only $14,000 per year and I can totally afford that, plus sock away a little extra cash."
"Do you like my new cell phone? What do you mean you've seen it before. It's brand new."
"My review is next week, and I think I'm due for a big raise. And I mean big. I think I could even crack $100,000, which is like doubling my salary."
"Should I tell my boss I want to move to California?"
"How much did houses cost in the 1980s? I mean nice houses? Did any house cost more than $1 million? I should have bought a house when I was really young."
And so it went, on and on, for an hour. I had to put my iPod on halfway through, and I could still hear her, interrupting my Stairway to Heaven.
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