On the Way to the SAT

This morning Daya took the SAT.

She had to be at school early.
She got up early.
She left early.
She should have arrived early.

But she did not... thank goodness she wasn't late, but she got there right on time.

The reason for her extensive delay was....

... a dead guy on the train.

This is how she happened to encounter the dead guy...

Daya has a whole system of taking the trains and transferring.  She is extremely specific about where she likes to be on the train.  A certain car, a certain door.  She has this down to a science. And she has a transfer at Times Square which (in her system) requires her to be at a specific seat and door to be exactly in front of the staircase.  (Non-NYC people, the subway is really not this complex, it's just how my kid rolls.)

So at our neighborhood stop, the train arrived right as she got there and she was in the "wrong" car.
Several stops later, the train held in the station and Daya decided to go to the "right" car.

And in that car, there was a dead guy.

She said he was in a ragdoll position and part of his coat was stuck on something, he was grey and very much not breathing.

She stayed for a while to see if the train would keep going.
Apparently by that time the crew realized there was a dead guy on the train, so everyone had to leave and walk to the next station to resume the commute.

My goodness, what a thing to see!

I have seen people in pretty severe degrees of being messed up on the trains, I guess it's possible some of them were dead but I didn't know it.

I think Daya is ok, she got annoyed for me for asking too much if she's ok.

Man, what an SAT story.

My SAT story is the kid behind me was loudly chewing gum and it made me batshit crazy and I couldn't concentrate.

Gum is apparently allowed during the SAT but earplugs are not.  Which is stunning because many of us are really sensitive to annoying noises, chewing being right at the top of the list and people are generally unaware of their awful gum noises.

Daya's story is worse tho, for sure.