I guess yesterday was "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" because the Fremont train conductor was a little girl shouting "Fremont train! Fremont train!" I was wondering what was up with the conductor until a group of boys from high school who were sitting next to me said "OH! It's 'Take Your Daughter to Work Day!!'" Taking the b.a.r.t is much more livelier when half the train is filled with Berkeley High students going home. Usually commuters (aka adults) are either sleeping or keeping to their own bubbled space that the whole ride becomes this awkward shared moment with people who are pretending they don't notice that your arm is in their face, or that your hovering over their seat. Etc. But when there are younger kids, b.a.r.t doesn't seem like a drag, its so much more fun...

Boy says to his friend: Let me see your folder...
Other boy: Uhm okay.
Boy 1: Oh my god, this thing is falling apart, why do you even have a folder, its just two cardboards...

I looked to see what they were talking about and I saw a stack of 50 loose leaf sheats and a folder that was deteriorating and had no binding. It wasn't holding the papers together at all. You see what I'm talking about? Much more livelier and interesting.