The Simple Life of the Matching Track Suit

I don't wake up at a set time every morning, though it would probably better my life in immeasurable ways to do so. There is a thirty to forty five minute window that I use. Since our clock radio no longer picks up the NPR station all that well, I have recently been waking on the later side.
On my way to work there are a few people I see on a regular basis.
There is the short woman in a dress with her hair tied in a bun wearing a back pack and running across the bridge in her sport sandals. There is the attractive young woman with the big butt, sunglasses and Jennifer Aniston haircut. There is the tall, Latin transvestite on her way back from the methadone clinic, talking with one of her friends. There is the old Italian woman with the black wig who reminds me, every time she sees me and my dog, that she used to have "a little one just like her." But I think my favorite fellow morning commuters are the Puerto Rican couple. She is a rotund black woman with a tonsure-like bowl cut. He is a tall weighty white guy with thinning hair and a big nose. They often wear matching outfits. Matching baby blue terry cloth basketball shorts with matching wife-beater tank top. Matching red track suits with red t-shirts underneath. Matching anime inspired Hawaiian shirts with matching jean shorts. Always with the same sneakers. Usually they are having a loud expositional conversation in Spanish.
The last two mornings I have had oatmeal for breakfast. This morning I cut bananas on top, covered them with honey and sprinkled crushed almonds over the whole thing. Yesterday the oatmeal was from Balthazar. It cost $5 and is apparently "steel cut." A woman who works in my building let me in on that final piece of information while we rode up in the elevator. I nodded as if the fact that it was "steel cut" was the deciding factor in my decision to get Balthazar oatmeal that morning. In fact, I had no clue what she was talking about. Later, I found out that steel cut oats are "groats that have been chopped into small pieces. They're chewier than rolled oats, and grain aficionados often prefer them for hot oatmeal cereals and muesli."