Child: Mommy Mommy [Pointing at track worker] Look, that man is going to kill himself.
Mom: No, honey, he is just fixing the tracks so we don’t crash with another train.
Child: So that means he is saving our lives by risking his. What a dumbass.
–7 train
I hope it was James Taggart on the tracks…or, to mix a metaphor, Ellsworth Toohey!
The headline is the funniest part.
The Overheard headlines are often the sole reason I post the conversation.