Will you know me?

There was a man on the subway this morning who made an announcement, asking if anyone wanted to be his friend. Well, not in so many words, but that was the gist: he was handing out business cards, amiably offering to teach something (a language perhaps? I couldn't hear) to anyone who wanted to learn. In conversation, he said he rode the F-train daily, just like many of the people there, and decided he needed to change something about his life, or maybe the way he did things, I wasn't sure. And while he definitely was less than cool, he was nowhere near as weird as could easily have been assumed. Even in New York, that was something unusual.