Long Time No Talk....and a brawl

OK OK So obviously I have fell off the wagon (literally and figuratively) when it comes to this blogging nonsense. I would credit it mostly to the fact that I quit my job and don't commute much anymore....well that...and I'm lazy.

But this was too good to pass up.

So my dear friend, Alluria* and I boarded the afternoon train for a well deserved girls date night filled with cheesecake factory and stand up comedy. Seems innocent enough right? There we were, all happy that we scored a seat together at the very back of the train.

It was then we noticed there was something a little....different about this ride. There was the usual cast of characters aboard the train, but this one seemed a bit more...diverse.

It was then we realized that there was an Islamic academy in Mansfield that apparently just got out of session. Apparently there were many of these kids that were commuters from Boston. And apparently, they were all quite loud and obnoxious.

So there we were, sitting amidst a group of what appeared to be somalian muslim teenagers in heat, and being someone used to being surrounded by muslim students, I didn't think anything too crazy was going to happen.

Then there was the soda spill of 2011.

The kids were playfully fighting over a soda. A tug of war- soda battle ensued. All of a sudden BLAM the soda bottle exploded all over one poor girls headscarf....and on the Tim's of an innocent passerby.

We shall call him The Angry Man.

So the Angry Man looked like he was on route from Providence to Roxbury, and he looked none too pleased about his position on the train. After the great soda spill of 2011 he vocalized his discontent in so many words......many of them starting with mother and ending in uckers...

The teenagers were scared back to their seats...or so we thought.

One boy, who appeared to be a little jewish boy until we realized they went to an islamic academy (big whoops) started in on the Angry Man. Though the conversation was a bit unclear, i believe they were arguing over the validity of Angry Mans...anger.

It was then that The Angry Man came over and started throwing punches at Confusingly Jewish Boy. Another, equally confusing Jewish-looking boy came over to try and break it up.

Myself, being a former security guard, felt inclined to step in, however, I was too busy trying to wrap my mind around the absurdity.

Token Middle-aged man in the back of the car started yelling "HEY KNOCK IT OFF" (a very middle aged man thing to say) but the conductor was no where in sight, and due to lack of posse support, the fight broke up in a very awkward anti-climatic way.

Until there, everyone was staring at each other, and The Angry Man said "Hey, which one of y'all has my sunglasses"

The conductor later told the teenagers they can no longer sit together.

And another commuter journey is complete.

*Names have been changed