The fortunately infrequent complaint of the daily commuter

I really wish people would keep their shootings to themselves. If you are going to shoot someone, do it at home or in a darkened alley, not on public transit, and certainly not on a transfer point between the subway and the LRT. You oughtn't shoot people at all, of course, but it's in particularly poor taste to do it where it affects many tired commuters who are just trying to get home.

I'd actually brought two books, but I finished Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World on the morning commute, and while Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveller is brilliant and all that, it makes for not-the-greatest transit reading of all time. So reading wasn't even the distraction it should have been.

(The victim survived; otherwise, I wouldn't be so flippant. Despite at least seven cop cars at the scene, the shooter managed to escape and is still at large.)