Since I have four siblings younger than I (by 2, 5, 9, and 14 years), Sesame Street was on our TV most days after school for many years. One of the features was the “People That You Meet” segment, and they featured a police officer, a firefighter, a letter carrier, and so on. If memory serves, they never mentioned
- The person, walking down the street, having an argument with themselves;
- The person, waiting for a train, who paces incessantly over a 10-foot range;
- The person, whom you’ve never met before, who will strike up a conversation like you were their long-lost best friend.
There are others, of course, and given that I live in Center City Philadelphia and walk regularly throughout the city, THOSE are many “the people that (I) meet each day.”