Archive for March, 2007
Thump Thump, Flutter Flutter
Thump, thump, thump …… THUMP, ……. THUMP, THUMP.
Flutter, flutter, flutter.
Completely and entirely lost
I took the 672 from work - Plymouth -> Minneapolis downtown as I always do. It was a very bad rush hour day so our bus driver decided that we will take back roads instead. Well, back roads led into more back roads and he got completely and entirely lost. 30 minutes later we were […]
It’s that loud fisherman
Over the years, driving west metro regional rts 612 (now defunct) and 604, some riders stand out…Like the LOUD fisherman. Older fella, always has a wheelie-cart w/ him. empty most of the time. He got wind that I fish a lot in the warmer weather. From then on, he’d get on the bus w/ lake […]
Carl Sagan was an atheist
A few years ago on the Madison (WI) Metro #29: Two men boarded the bus who were traveling together. The first man sat next to me. The second man was quite tall and had about 10 feet of television cable wrapped tightly around his shoulders and neck. Cableguy held the pointy cable end in one […]
You’re a demon from hell
Some of the strangest people hop on the bus: we all know that. I was taking the 16 from the University to downtown Minneapolis around lunch hour, and as I got on I looked around. No one too strange, except this busy-looking woman, 50-ish, with a small duffel bag, who was sitting in […]
Private Pillow
My most embarressing moment in riding the bus for 20 years is the time some man got on the bus. His eyes looked a little buggy. He moved slow. He sat right down next to me on the first seat. I knew something was going to happen by the way he looked. And it […]
Fire in the sky
I was going to work when an old guy got on and flopped down in a seat, drunk. He noticed me as I glanced at him and came to sit next to me on the nearly-empty bus. To himself he said, “I’m so scared!” so I asked him what he was scared of. […]
Hissy Pop
I had a woman riding my bus today who had just come from Aldi’s with a few bags of groceries. I must have braked a little too hard pulling into a stop, because her bags tipped over, spilling groceries all over the aisle (that’s what happens when you don’t hold your bags, folks). Among these […]
Unbathed and out of sorts
Twenty years ago, I was traveling from Corpus Christi to Boston. I remember being somewhere in South Carolina, feeling very sick, and a woman brought me cream of mushroom soup in a styrofoam coffee cup. I was so thankful.
Can’t take a joke?
About thirty years ago a driver reported for work at Snelling Garage and was given the white cane that he had previously turned in to Lost and Found. When he went out to make relief that day he donned dark glasses and boarded the bus using the cane. After he sat in the […]
