Metro Moment

Riding home on the metro friday, I had a little metro moment that I wanted to share with you all. It was the middle of the day and so not particularly crowded but every time we came to a stop at a new station there was some yelling and whooping coming from one of the other cars. Normally, the Paris metro is a very somber place. You know you are in the presence of a tourist if you see someone smiling on the metro, it just isn't done. Unless of course, it's very late at night and you are with a partner with whom you can nuzzle and whisper to, press up to very snugly, and generally do all kinds of things that would require the privacy of a residence or at the very least, the back seat of an automobile, anywhere in the United States. But I digress. So, there is this silliness going on at every stop as we're going along and then all of a sudden there is clicking on the loud speaker. This kind of clicking happens when someone is about to talk to give the passengers a message and it doesn't happen very often. But there was no message, there was music. I was trying to figure out what it was over the shrieking of the wheels against the rails when I finally realized it was the theme to The Love Boat. And then there was happiness. People were smiling in the metro. And it was funny. Soon the music stopped and it was time for me to get off. When I left the train, the source of the whooping was revealed. At every stop, there were some young kids jumping out of their car and mooning all of the other passengers as they entered and exited and they had their friends cheering them on. And that was funny too.