At 3:00 a.m., a homeless woman in the lobby started coughing. She stopped after about 10 minutes.
At 4:15, everyone in the lobby had to get up.
I went to a chair to try to sleep. A woman who was sitting a few chairs away from me was talking to herself, so I moved to another chair on the other side of the lobby.
A homeless woman who mostly doesn't talk at all and coughs incessantly to harass people sat a couple of seats away from me. Another homeless woman, the one who was coughing at 3:00 a.m., sat one chair away from me and started coughing again.
I moved to the other side of the lobby again. Now I can hear the woman who's talking to herself and the woman who was coughing at 3:00 this morning, and the payphone in the lobby just rang.
Copyright L. Kochman, September 26, 2015 @ 5:11 a.m.
