Ryan's Currently Unnamed Blog

So, I have been working late lately and have mostly been on the 6:19PM train out of the city. (More clues for you stalkers out there!). Well, Monday I get to the train just to see it pulling out of the station. That's just fantastic!

Which isn't the worst thing in the world, I get to spend some quality time with Wil Wheaton's Just a Geek.

Also, once the train pulls up, I get a prime seat by myself next to the window. And since it was a holiday the train was mostly empty. So, I get to spread out a bit and get comfortable.

About 15 minutes into the ride, I get one of those familiar announcements about how the train is going to be 10 minutes late... this time just because of some other train's problems. Yay, more quality Wil time.

At one of the first stops, this woman and little girl get on and I notice that there aren't many open seats for them, so I move over so that there's room. The woman has the little girl sit next to me, and she sits in the seat in front of me. This is quite possbily the cutest little girl in recent memory, and she was obviously cold and waiting outside for a while.

The woman, probably her grandmother, asked her if she wanted to take her hat and gloves off. She just shook her head no, all the while her gaze fixed on me, and this HUGE grin on her face.

I'm not sure if it was me, or the comforting picture of Wil Wheaton on his book that she liked, but once the other person in the seat in front of me got up to leave, the woman asked the little girl to come sit with her, and she didn't want to! She wanted to sit next to me!

Finally, she coaxes her up a seat, and before long, the seat in front of them opens up, so they flip the seat around, so it would allow up to 4 people to sit 'together'. The little girl sits facing backward... staring at me with that same huge grin on her face. And this time, she couldn't see the book, so I'm pretty certain its me.

Now, all the while, all I could manage to do is look back at her and smile, or make little subtle faces. I suddenly had this fear of saying something and making the woman think I was some creepy old guy. So.. I just sat there and made faces and enjoyed the innocence of this little girl.

Once we finally made it back to my stop, I to get off the train, and she watched me walk all the way up to the doors, and I'd duck back out of view and back into view and I could hear her laughing from all the way across the train. She even watched me from her window waving at me. And smiling.

So... an innocent 40 minutes or so, without a single word exchanged.

Sure its pointless... but isn't everything here?