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Published On: May 23, 2007 06:19 PM
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Published On: May 23, 2007 06:19 PM
Unexpected Travel Partners
There's a piece of chewing gum stuck to the
bottom of my luggage.
I'm not really sure how long it's been there; I think I first noticed it on the train from Pisa to Cinque Terre. I only notice it, you see, on the trains, because that's when my luggage is on a rack over my head, thereby improving my chances of seeing things like chewing gum, stuck to the bottom of it. Since I'm never inclined to scrape it off while riding on the train from underneath, and I never remember it otherwise, it's staying there for now.
I can only assume that at some location here in Italy, someone spit it out onto the ground, in a place where I later set my bag. I wonder about that person, and their intentions. I can't bring myself to believe that there was a conscious decision on their part to send their chewing gum on a cross-country (and most likely transoceanic) journey. I therefore surmise that its presence on my bag is an accident.
That gum has now crossed Italy repeatedly, and will soon most likely go to America. It's going on an unintended journey, and perhaps had already had one before becoming attached to my belongings. Perhaps that gum was bought at a convenience store in Turkey, or Madagascar, or even Murray, Kentucky, and then carried in someone's purse or backpack before being chewed and deposited, to be carried back to Kentucky by me.
It's not exactly a butterfly flapping its wings and a typhoon hitting someplace in the Far East, but it struck me this morning.
And now, after all this contemplation, it's striking me as gross. This piece of gum's travels may very well end in Firenze.
I'm not really sure how long it's been there; I think I first noticed it on the train from Pisa to Cinque Terre. I only notice it, you see, on the trains, because that's when my luggage is on a rack over my head, thereby improving my chances of seeing things like chewing gum, stuck to the bottom of it. Since I'm never inclined to scrape it off while riding on the train from underneath, and I never remember it otherwise, it's staying there for now.
I can only assume that at some location here in Italy, someone spit it out onto the ground, in a place where I later set my bag. I wonder about that person, and their intentions. I can't bring myself to believe that there was a conscious decision on their part to send their chewing gum on a cross-country (and most likely transoceanic) journey. I therefore surmise that its presence on my bag is an accident.
That gum has now crossed Italy repeatedly, and will soon most likely go to America. It's going on an unintended journey, and perhaps had already had one before becoming attached to my belongings. Perhaps that gum was bought at a convenience store in Turkey, or Madagascar, or even Murray, Kentucky, and then carried in someone's purse or backpack before being chewed and deposited, to be carried back to Kentucky by me.
It's not exactly a butterfly flapping its wings and a typhoon hitting someplace in the Far East, but it struck me this morning.
And now, after all this contemplation, it's striking me as gross. This piece of gum's travels may very well end in Firenze.
Posted: Wed - May 23, 2007 at 01:49 PM |
