There's nothing worse than forgetting to eat your apple.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. This may be true, and in a recent case in the USA a doctor in a nursing home refused to go into the room of a poorly patient to administer CPR because, so it was claimed, there were apples in the room. Whatever we think of the apple, it certainly keeps away the hunger pains you might have at midday if you left home early without eating a proper breakfast. It is always my intention to eat my apple before entering the Metro station on my way home, as eating is not allowed in Metro stations and trains, but normally I realise, just as I enter the station concourse, that the apple is still in my bag. Invariably I end up putting it back onto the fruit tray in the living room when I get home. Accordingly, one apple may have taken three trips on the Metro before I actually eat it. However, perhaps it's not my fault, and the apple is manipulating me to gain a better understanding of the Metro system. It is a recently discovered fact that the apple has about 57,000 genes, which is the highest known number of any genome of a plant studied. This number is also about twice the number of genes in the human body, so in some sense, the apple is superior to the human being. This is worth pondering on whilst you are eating your apple strudel.
Today I was in a bit of a dream,
standing, as always, in the Dubai Metro Green Line train on the way
from Union Station (Al Etihad) to Stadium Station (Al Stad). In fact, if I had imagined myself to be in a seat I would have been in an actual dream. Where
was I? What day was it? Was it winter or spring? I didn't know, but it didn't matter because there would be a
more than helpful in-carriage announcement bringing me back to reality. I spent the first 30 years of my life
travelling the London Underground when they only had announcements on the platform. Now, I think that there is nothing worse than not having the friendly Metro announcer
telling me in Arabic and English when it's my time to get off.
