Another hundred people.

Sitting in the gate area at Newark Airport recently, my gaze shifted to the windows looking out over the airfield. What I saw struck me.

Like a perfectly framed photograph, on either side of the window there were two planes. One was a Continental jet, while the other was from Air India. In the background, two trams passing each other, shuttling people from terminal to terminal at the busy airport.

As the song from Company goes, "Another hundred people just got off of the train and came up from the ground, while another hundred people just got off of the bus and are looking around, and another hundred people just got off of the plane and are looking at us who got off of the train and the plane and the bus, maybe yesterday."

I'm always slightly amused by our ability to move so many people from place to place. Within a span of a couple of hours I was transported back to Florida. Crowded, to be sure, but not like New York. We can go from hot to cold, alone and side-by-side with hundreds, thousands of other people. Transportation technology allows us to experience the world -- and each other -- with relative ease.

Don't ask me what this post is really about. Maybe that's why it's posted under "random musings." It was just that, a musing.

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And speaking of transportation and New York, I'm back there for three nights starting next Thursday. As ever, I can't wait! And yes, I'm going to theater again. Just one show: Legally Blonde.

Comments

[Kevin]

It's a city of strangers ...

so very true.

[Rick]

New York? How fun!