Sunday Morning Comin' Down
Abby is 18. I know this. Still, her decision to take the train from SeaTac down to Lumen to hang out with friends in the footprint of the Taylor Swift concert aura caused me no small amount of stress last night. Part of it is I just know she isn't as street wise as I was when I was her age. I rode the bus regularly through Rainier Beach as a kid, not infrequently, and always alone. I saw more crazy things by the time I was her age then she can know. When I expressed concern about her plan, she countered with, "I used to ride the train every day to go to school." This is true. She did. From the U-District station to the first stop downtown. For context, that is like going to the petting zoo where they give out free cotton candy versus going to a hunting park dressed in a meat suit and armed only with a kazoo. So, she left last night around 7, drove to the SeaTac Park and Ride, an adventure in itself, and got off down at the stadium stop. At around 10:00 I texted asking ...