Rob won't have to go work out today; he got his run in.
This really happened:
SCENE: The steam room at the West End Y, around 8:00 A.M. today.
CHARACTERS: One Asian guy, a hip, younger, Indo-Canadian guy, a barrel-chested Portuguese guy, older white lawyer type. And myself. All towel-wrapped, sitting in a 140 degree white tile room.
Indo-Canadian guy: (To older white lawyer) Didja see that interview?
Lawyer: (nods sadly) Disgraceful.
Indo-Canadian guy: He kept saying that he's you know, working out. Best mayor ever. Saving billions. Over and over. None of it's true.
Lawyer: Probably not likely.
With the exception of the two talking, everyone is looking down as sweat rolls down and steam swirls.
Suddenly, the barrel chested Portuguese guy (he's about 65)shifts. He looks agitated. He begins to speak, jabbing his finger at the rest of us. His voice is raised.
Barrel-Chested Portuguese Guy: Yeah. He workin' out 2 hours a day? You know what he doin'. Beatin' his wife. That's his GD exercise. THAT's how that bastard's workin' out. That...
He pauses...trying to find the words. Which he does, emitting what I can only imagine as the very worst Azorean epithet you can muster. Then he gets up and leaves in disgust, throwing the door open angrily.
After a brief glance, the rest of us go back to sweating. It was extraordinary, because everybody usually keeps to themselves in the steam, really. Respectful distances from each other kinda thing. But Ford had strangers talking. And this one guy, this guy was so worked up and what one would assume are his conservative, old-world values so affronted by what he's hearing about his Mayor, that he went of on an extemporaneous angry rant. That's how Ford is making non -Nashunals react now. The pissed off are REALLY pissed off. And after the disgraceful, confrontational display in Council today, you have to wonder what's coming.
Apologies for the post length, but thought it anecdotally interesting.