SOME OTHER

She saw a cab and yelled for it. Her loud voice surprised me. The fact that the driver heard it and stopped was even more surprising. We were in one of the biggest cities of the planet. Even on a side street, it was a surprise for a human voice to be heard through the glass of the car's windows and above the noise. I figured that in ten or twenty years this would be no surprise at all and instead a true remembrance of what by then would be thought of as a Golden Age or some other delicious delusion. She was not surprised at all. She just gave me a warm smile as she got into the cab. I smiled back and turned to walk East.