He asked why I don’t wear the armband.

A commuter poses on a train platform, pulling up his sleeve to show a purple armband with a narrow gold stripe.
A commuter poses on a train platform, pulling up his sleeve to show a purple armband with a narrow gold stripe.

We don’t know each other, but I’ve seen him at the station before. He must have seen the site.

I said, “I’m not religious.”

“It’s not a religion,” he said.

“It’s just not for me,” I said.

He said, “OK,” and that was that.