PBJ

a day’s journey
I walk past a condo construction site on my way to the office from the subway and in the morning there are often constriction workers up and down the sidewalks on both sides of the street, some working, some on break, some doing who-knows-what. There are enough of them that is sometimes a puzzle making the way down the sidewalk.

This morning’s trip coincided with breakfast (or 8:30 lunch) for some of them. As I approached one guy in front of a deli, he was sitting on his haunches, leaning against the building, eating. Prototypical young construction worker: big, brawny, tattooed and chiseled.

As I made sure to give him a wide berth, what he was eating only registered in passing.

made my day
When I realized it was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (whole wheat bread, I think) I could not help but smile. Just a big kid….

(C) Sandy Mattingly 2007