6 utterly ridiculous things that have happened this week/6 reasons I'm glad it's the weekend

1) Being asked by a seafarer if I was an NBA representative. I can only assume this was because of my height, though I really have no idea. To my knowledge, NBA reps don't routinely visit car carriers in Port Newark...

2) Riding all the way downtown on the subway with a wannabe rapper 4 year-old. 

3) Attending a public event where a woman announced her intention to commit suicide. In all sincerity. Still reeling from that one.

4) Visiting a very sick merchant marine veteran in the hospital and listening to him spout historically convoluted conspiracy theories for over an hour. Apparently, George W. Bush, JFK, Hitler, and AARP are still out to get him...

5) Witnessing a full-scale police intervention against a group of homeless women sleeping in the bathroom stalls at Penn Station Newark. Never wanting to go to the bathroom in Penn Station ever again. 

6) Watching a woman at a bank in West Harlem start viciously beating her 6 year-old child. In public. Researching the appropriate way to notify ACS in the future.

Dear life: please calm down.