There are innumerable ways to pass time when you’re bored. You can read a book, think about nuclear fission, consider your future on Mars or even knit mittens for cats.

My Metro rides home are not altogether boring since I listen to interesting podcasts, but that’s a very passive activity. To spice things up, I sometimes break out my non-existent art skills.

Often, they take on the form of a threatening figure who just can’t leave me to ride in peace.

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Others tend to be more friendly, even if rude with their tongue.

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Things quickly returned to more annoying terms.

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Sometimes they even find me at home. Unfortunately for them I have a strict no hugs for cartoons policy.

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Maybe that’s why so many like to try to poke me?

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Some of them have weird features.

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Like, really weird features.

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But maybe soon we’ll be friends.

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Maybe.