Custom tailored
It's not unusual to see people on the bus or train keeping themselves occupied by reading a book or listening to music or some other diversion.
It's not even all that unusual for people to be doing something rather productive — studying, or doing work on a notebook computer, or that kind of thing.
Sometimes that even includes cross-stitching or mending clothes, and so on.
But it did strike me as a little unusual for someone to hem a pair of pants on the 98 B-Line, and not just any pair of pants, but the very pair of pants which she had on at the time. Once the bus got rolling, she dug a needle and thread out of her pocket, flipped up the cuff of her pants to reveal a safety pin which had been holding the pants at the right length, and went to work on the hem.
I feel like I can never use the "but the tailor closes before I get off work" excuse ever again.
It's not even all that unusual for people to be doing something rather productive — studying, or doing work on a notebook computer, or that kind of thing.
Sometimes that even includes cross-stitching or mending clothes, and so on.
But it did strike me as a little unusual for someone to hem a pair of pants on the 98 B-Line, and not just any pair of pants, but the very pair of pants which she had on at the time. Once the bus got rolling, she dug a needle and thread out of her pocket, flipped up the cuff of her pants to reveal a safety pin which had been holding the pants at the right length, and went to work on the hem.
I feel like I can never use the "but the tailor closes before I get off work" excuse ever again.