Day 4 : Jupiter

Carrie-Bri grimaced as yet another Mets fan squeezed himself next to her in standing room only. And didn’t just stand, but liberally sprawled over into her space.

“If this guy doesn’t move over…” Carrie growled through her teeth.

He didn’t. He also didn’t take a cue, and struck up conversation about her tattoos, the Flood of ’93, and Tim Tebow’s religious beliefs. He wasn’t the only one. We learned that afternoon, around a tight Cardinals loss, that Mets fans seem to be a relatively friendly, albeit highly talkative, crowd that had literally no sense of personal space whatsoever. We blamed it on the subways.

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