A fat man fell on me.

I was sitting facing forward on the Metro today and an older Middle Eastern man got on at Universal station. The forward facing seat in front of me was open and he hesitated to sit down and the train doors closed and the train lurched forward forcing the standing man into my lap.

I tried to break his fall with my hands but he was quite heavy and between falling in my lap and my wrists aching with his body weight I now think he thinks we are engaged.

This is where I talk about riding the subway in Los Angeles

I started a job downtown LA and the price of parking and gas forced me to take the Metro. I started in October, cool weather, low paying job, conscienceness for the environment. In colder weather people wear more clothing. In hot weather people show more skin and others are exposed to body odors as well. There are a few people that ride the Metro that have no sense of body space and do not want to share what little bit of seat is open next to them. One guy stood next to me as I sat and put his junk basically four inches from my right ear. Another guy sat with his legs spread wide open so I had to straddle over his thighs in order to get past him to sit in the only empty seat on the train. No one should have to endure this on a daily basis in hot weather, so I drive my Prius and pay $8. a day to park.

A snake stuck in the toilet

My grandparents lived in a mobil home in a trailer park on Harbor Blvd. when I was 5 years old. We were there for a visit one day and my parents and grandparents were in the front part and my younger sister and I were in our Aunt's bedroom playing with all of her chrome horses.

As we were playing we could hear the adults talking and my grandpa starts talking about how a snake got stuck in the toilet. That's all I heard and focused on 'snake caught in the toilet". After a while I had to pee and I made my sister watch the toilet bowl while I stratteled the bowl and peed. My only thought was that if I sat down that snake would rise up and bite me on the butt. I stratteled, I peed, she watched. This routine went on for years each time we went to visit my grandparents in their mobile home. Squat, watch, pee, flush, watch, quickly close seat. Repeated over and over for 2 little girls for years........

It was years later that I found out what a "snake" was and quickly go back in time to that time every time someone mentions having to use a snake.