The next morning I hopped on the subway to go to school, and the train had just got in, so I dashed up the stairs and onto the subway car, only to realize that this younger Jewish couple and their 2 small kids who I had been on the subway once a couple months ago had also been in the car...
The guy was taller with a big adam's apple and one of those Jewish beanie things, and the woman was shorter and slightly rounded and had red hair, and the kids were cute but you could tell their manners weren't the best since their parents are those kind of socially-awkward people who always speak at full volume and don't get social cues and are always strangely tolerated in church communities...
I don't remember exactly what had happened before, but I think they sat on opposite sides of the car and in the perfectly quiet 8am subway car carried on a loud conversation with each other.
This time, the wife decided it was storytime - on a croweded subway car! - and whipped out some "make your children smart" age-appropriate book about Shakespeare and did a story-time in a nice loud librarian's-type voice... The (black) guy sitting next to me gave her a glance, but no-one said anything... Luckily she got off before her husband did (she was going somewhere - to work? - while her husband was taking the kids to school), and he resumed story-time, only in a hushed voice.
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