Today's Bus Ride, September 10, 2099

Two things:

1. the driver asked the person to turn down the volume (headphones!) and not share their music with their fellow passengers
2. The woman wearing the following-T-shirt "I used to be , SCHIZOPHRENIC, but we are OK now"

Today on the Bus June 16, 2009

So we get to a major intersection and the driver ( a new one...male) says he has to go to the restroom. Besides we are a couple of minutes ahead of schedule. He runs across four lanes of traffic to a local greasy spoon. I can see the headline...passengers stranded on city bus after driver killed crossing street on way to bathroom! When he got back to the bus; he thanked us for waiting (now where were we going to go... who among us could drive a bus...but I digress) another day with public transit. I know I wouldn't want it any other way.

Today on the bus-May 28, 2009

...anyway as I was saying it has been a while since I blogged ( is that a word i.e., a verb [blog:-read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal] again the problem of a digression within a digression, I digress) A couple of things-my favorite faux diner car restaurant has this sign:
Vienna is the Rolls Royce of hot dogs.
Not Paris, New York...(is anything ever something but the Rolls Royce, for example, Ford Taurus, Yugo, Honda Civic, etc. I digress).

Second-We can call this overheard on the bus. Two (mature women) were discussing the long line in front of a kitchen (a Dorothy Day) that feeds homeless people. Did you know that anyone can get a free meal? The "soup kitchen" doesn't ask for any identification. As we passed the Salvation Army kitchen...well you can get a free breakfast...they don't ask for any identification (now I am wondering what does "identification" that proves you're homeless look like...but I never violate the bus rider code, i.e., never ask questions or indicate that you are listening...but I digress).
Thirdly, I was the only one (well obviously the driver stayed on the bus and yes I know I said a couple of things... I don't know how to make editing changes...I digress) on the bus after we turned at the liquor store. I asked my favorite driver if she could just run by my house. She said I would but this expletive deleted GPS would tell them (later identified as big brother) I was off the route. She would have...

Gosh, all of you who commute by something other than public transportation (OK-- if you walk, bike, ride a horse, or canoe) eat your hearts out (or should that be heart and why don't we say eat your liver or kidney but I digress)...

Today on the bus-May 18, 2009

So the man got on and sat down next to the driver (not a good sign). He proceeded to tell the driver about the peregrine falcon that tried to land on his shoulder. He said it went bumpy, bumpy, bumpy... He asked the driver if this had ever happened to her. She said no. He said are you sure. She said, I think I would remember. He then asked her if she had ever run over a "domestic" animal. No she said. A wild animal? No. She asked him if he had ever run over an animal. He said no, he didn't even have a driver's license. When I got off the bus...the driver said to me...whatever he was on probably wasn't a prescription drug.

Either listening to people or Bikini Kill on the Ipod.

Today on the bus-May 12, 2009

So, this really cute little girl about four or maybe five sat up near the driver. She and the driver had this conversation about 'xactly what the driver's [job] did... As the little girl and her mother and siblings got off the bus; the little girl said thank you to the driver. The driver said well thank you. You are a special little girl and I was very lucky today to have you on my bus today...well the little girl's face...a Kodak moment (I guess if you are old enough to know what that means...you probably don't read weird blogs that talk about riding the bus...I digress). I think that what was especially poignant about this moment...well having an adult speak kindly to you was an exceptional experience for this girl

Today on the bus-May 9, 2009

It is Saturday no bus ride today...sigh

Today on the bus-May 8, 2009

Friday...just me, the driver and the other two people who work on Friday...sigh

Today on the bus-May 7, 2009

Today the ride was just a bus ride...sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

Today on the bus-May 6, 2009

This morning as the bus went by a restaurant ( the building is a faux dining car that recently began serving food...previously it was alleged that this was a place where you could go and place a wager on what ever it is one wages on...now this maybe an urban legend...why urban certainly there could never be a suburban legend but surely a rural legend...but I digress in my digress) I noticed that their portable sign said--
Eat here
we serve beef
wow!
So this is where a hamburger could bring their standing rib roast date.

Today on the bus--May 5, 2009

Do you suppose the twenty something who had her Ipod cranked up...well we could hear the music...was hurting her hearing?
Because bus riders are tolerant...and she was on her way to work...no one said anything
or they all like Franz Ferdinand

Today on the bus--May 4, 2009

So the driver waited for the rider to buy some beer at the liquor store. Now, I only mention this because no one said anything...hey bus riders rock (is that the right word I digress) or something

This bus like most big city buses has a device in the front for your bike-
So our next rider puts his bike on...gets in and begins to read aloud sharing...now if you could only have understood him