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I only saw it once and do not remember a lot.

Wow.

What a powerful scene. Did not recall it at all.

I need to watch it again.

We think we know what kind of situations others are in, mentally or physically, when only God truly knows.

I was maybe 24 and late for an interview in Manhattan.

I was on the subway and my stop came and the doors didn’t open.

The ONLY other person in my subway car was this RAMBLING, TERRIBLE SMELLING, OLD black woman who looked like she was 51 cards short of a full deck. Wearing rags.

I cursed out loud about why the hell the doors weren’t opening!!

Just as clearly and articulate as a person can be, she told me that the first five cars don’t open but I could still make it to the next car in time and get off.

Then she asked me where I was going and I told her and she told me a quicker route to get there.

Then she went STRAIGHT back to whatever planet she was on.

I AM conservative when it comes to the lazy homeless.

But there was no reason for this woman to act INSANE as I was the only other on the car and she was not looking for money. She was in her 60s easy and any heavy addiction would have killed her long ago.

She was only lucid for as long as she answered me. Then she was gone again to whatever world she was in.

I would not remember it 26 years later if it didn’t leave that much of an impression on me.

Never knew what to make of the whole affair.

Anyway, thanks for the VERY POIGNANT scene. I had forgotten all about it.