It didn't make people suddenly social. Factory guys didn't walk up to strangers and grab tits any more than they used to shake hands. Scalpers didn't start greeting every woman on the stairs. The new common sense just sat there, available, unused, like a broken ticket machine.
People still weren't copying him in the crowd. That was the part the rumor-spreaders later wouldn't get. Alter made the act common sense. It didn't make people suddenly social. Factory guys didn't walk up to strangers and grab tits any more than they used to shake hands. Scalpers didn't start greeting every woman on the stairs. The new common sense just sat there, available, unused, like a broken ticket machine.
Ray was the one using it.
