I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do this, but I sure enjoy inviting myself into conversations on the tube or train. Last night there were two girls and a guy heading into London together. The guy started to look out the window while the girls chatted. At one point they tried to include him, but he had zoned off and didn't hear them. He had quite a serious look on his face so they started to guess what he was thinking about. I offered that he's probably thinking about nothing. They said "no way". He finally "came back" and they asked "what were you just thinking about, looking so serious". He paused for a second, thought about it, and said "nothing". Mhm. We all shared a great laugh.
There's something strangely validating about learning that people are people, no matter where they live or what accent they have. All four of us in that story came from different backgrounds.
While walking across one of the bridges in London, I learned that the Queen was the first to start a walk across this particular bridge. It was a big ceremony. But the bridge started to wobble and they called off the event. Then, they basically used km to crowd source a solution from anyone that had an idea of how to make it less wobbly. Of course the ideas came in droves and they took the best one and fixed it immediately. They still call it the wobbly bridge because of the incident, but I call it yet another km success.
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