Archive for August, 2007
Nothing turns a girl on more
Coming home from my brother’s late one night this past winter, I hopped on the 21 to Uptown. About two stops into my ride, a man got on and sat next to me on an otherwise empty bus. I, of course, was pretending to be sleeping, but there’s something about an uninterested person […]
Tip goes the tank
Several years ago, I was seated on the 4 in a window seat. It was rush hour. People got on at every block. A pair of twenty something ladies took the seat behind me. Causally, one of the women said,
PKEW! PKEW!
So I’m coming back from the downtown YWCA and this drunk stinker was sitting up at the front of the bus making a gun with his fingers and pointing it at people’s heads going “PKEW”!
Too old for me
So I’m on the loooong bus ride from my job in downtown St. Paul to meet some friends at a bar in Uptown. I’m in the very back row. We’ve just crossed the river when a pretty good-looking man gets on and sits down on those sideways-facing seats in the back. I’ll admit, I’m […]
At least it didn’t have syrup
Today while waiting for the bus at 6:15 am, sitting on the bench with one other guy, a truck drove by with a bunch of loud younger guys and they threw a pancake at me. It hit me in the leg.
A dead f’r
A guy gets on the bus, talking loudly on his cellphone. It was pretty crowded that day but every single person was listening to this guy, whether you wanted to or not.
Free floating gherkins
Has anyone else ridden the bus next to or near strange items? In my many years of riding the bus, I have had some strange co-passengers. Once I was going to St. Paul, and I rode near a large mound of cooked macaroni noodles.
Home Ec, Teaching, or Nursing?
This is an old story, but one that still warms my heart…about 10 years ago I was riding the 19 from the West Bank and this mid 40’s “normal” looking woman starting bus chatting with me.
Elaborate descriptions
I love it when the bus driver really makes your day more delightful. I was on the 3C returning home from a half-day at work. There was only one other person on the bus and it was clear that we had both ridden this route many times before and new exactly where we […]
Foundation stains
Was riding the 11 when this crazy obviously drugged up woman was woken up by her boyfriend before their stop. She proceeded to attempt to groom herself and put on about 2 pounds of makeup (it wasn’t even close to being enough to cover all the sores on her face) and make a few […]
