Linda Notose

   I first found myself standing behind her on the eastbound platform at roughly nine thirty today, which was a Friday. I specifically took notice of her because she was eating Organic Brand cheetos while waiting for the train. She sat down on the opposite side of the train once it arrived, her left profile facing towards me. Once she was seated she buried the back of cheese snacks in her alligator green carryall which appeared to be stuffed full of groceries of other such things.
   She had curly hair, appeared to be in her mid forties. She struggled with her brimming sac which she precariously balanced on her lap. I tried to identify one of the other items and the closest guess I could manage was possibly a bushel (bushel?) of brown paper towels. That is a poor guess though because I can't imagine why such a thing would find itself beside the "organic" cheetos in a bright green sac.
   I try to avoid being exposed as a snoop/ creep when observing people, so I observe little about their upper halves, but can describe the feet in picturesque detail. This woman wore dress flips flops. The were certainly not the one dollar end of summer flip flops you find at Old Navy. They were black with a little jewel where the foot thong meets by the big toe. Her toes were painted a coral colour and in observing this I made a shocking discovery. This woman's big toe nails lifted very far off the toe- as if they were trying to take flight! I thought at first that it was due to a previous accident (a box drop or door stub perhaps) having only seen one toenail, but then she shifted her footing and I saw the other was the same. It was very strange and a bit shocking. I'm sure I could learn to love it but it caught me off guard.
   Her name is Linda Notose.