Wild life in the city

I can remember that when I was young there were a lot of animal documentaries on German television and the two main characters were Heinz Sielmann and Bernhard Grzimek. They were the masters of animal documentaries and were awarded a lot of prices yet at the same time there were a lot of impersonations of them in comedy shows. There were always those sentences that "right now we are looking at animal XYZ in its natural environment and this is what it usually does and look at how it is learning to cope with the environment" and so on.

So ... today I am waiting at the train station for the subway to take me home from our rehearsal session. And while I am waiting there a young man goes up and down the platform. He's casually swinging his keys which are on some sort of strap band, whatever. While he is doing this he is obviously very anxious and nervous. At least his walking up and down - which he dind maybe 10-15 times while waiting the 10 minutes for the next train - looked like he was.
Suddenly he notices a garbage can at the bottom of the escalator. He starts kicking it and he notices that it swings. What follows next can be compared to little children who find out that certain actions cause a reaction by the object. Our young fellow was now experimenting with his environment. He started kicking the garbage can numerous times, trying to get a huge swinging effect. Then he starts walking up and down again, returns to the garbage can and starts kicking it again, this time with his heel.

This was very interesting to watch. It really gave me a smile after a long day.