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<\/p>\n7:10 PM on a Saturday night. Getting on an uptown Q at Broadway & Spring.<\/p>\n
Doors open. No one\u2019s by the door to get off and I\u2019m about to step in. Here one of those, you know, “oh-look-this-stop-is-ours\u201d slow pokes and a girlfriend who for some reason is not wearing pants \u2014 just an underwear or a swim bottom \u2014 wake up and head at me. Their dazed gaze indicates they\u2019ve “taken some on the chest,\u201d as they say in the country I\u2019m from. They could even be my compatriots returning from Brighton \u2014 it’s an uptown Q after all and the couple looks parched.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, these loud \u201cYO! YO! YO!\u201d are rolling after them \u2014 louder, closer \u2014 taking me out of the book I am listening to. A man in a black suit sticks his foot in the door holding it open and keeps yelling at the two. What the hell did they do to cause this? Is it a fight? Terrorists? Unsupervised suspicious bag on a train? Someone got mugged? Should I stay or should I go? Damn.<\/p>\n
The man in a black suit stretches out his hand. What\u2019s in it? Hope it\u2019s not a gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not. It\u2019s a stuffed wallet and a ball of cash. The man shoves all that into the hand of the dumbfounded slow poke and returns back to his place in the middle of the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It takes a few moments for the slow poke to realize that his entire identity slipped out of his back pocket onto a subway seat and was just gifted back to him by a stranger. As the dots slowly connect in his head, the doors of the train close. The slow poke tries to get back in but could only press his face against the window and conjure a look that obviously means love.<\/p>\n
The train takes off, New Yorkers and guests of this wonderful town place their noses back into their phones. I can\u2019t stop staring at this guy in a black suit thinking about that sinking feeling when you reach for your wallet and it\u2019s not there.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
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If you see this man, do something nice for him, because he just saved someone\u2019s week, maybe more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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