Seen on the Metro: Red

On a morning commute this week, a woman took the last open seat one row in front of me. After stowing her bag, she pulled out a brand new paperback book. It was so new that it looked like the shrink-wrap was just taken off. I was not able to see the cover, but the top of the page read Best Care Anywhere.

She wore a red sweater, and her black hair was in a bun. Around the bun was wrapped a piece of red cloth that perfectly matched her sweater. As she started reading the book's introduction, her head tilted to the left. I always find it interesting how people hold their heads as the read. Some stay perfectly straight; other people hunch over as if to guard their books or bury their faces in the pages; and some people tilt their head to one side. In this case, our reader's head tilt was "just so" that everytime the metro car hit a bump her sunglasses threatened to fly off. Each time, she would readjust the sunglasses without taking a break in her reading. By the time I got off the train, she was already a few pages into Chapter 1.