Archive for February, 2009
I’ve got problems and more gloves
Sometimes I like to ride the transit bus. It gives me some down time, time to evaluate myself and my problems. I’ve got problems and riding the bus gives me time to try to find, and ask for, solutions. I rarely talk to the other bus people but sometimes someone wants to tell a story, [...]
People on the bus
I was on the 54 heading to Downtown St. Paul when we made a stop at W. 7th Street & Grand Avenue. A guy is standing outside the bus asking the bus driver questions. The guy says “Do you go near the Xcel Energy Center”? The driver replies by saying yes. Then the guy asks [...]
A little slack
While commuting to my job back in the early 1980s, I happened to sit next to a woman who scowled when she heard two Hmong women speaking their native language and started railing about all the “Vietnamese” immigrants who lived in crowded apartments and were on welfare and “refused” to learn English.
