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Door Taco
I’m a driver, and was doing the 4 line on this particular day, which just so happened to be New Year’s Day. Happy to have survived driving on New Year’s Eve in a snowstorm with throngs of drunken motorists on the road, I thought that my New Year’s Day work would be a Sunday drive. I was quite wrong. Continue reading ‘Door Taco’
Pink Safety Scissors
Several years ago, I was riding the 180 at 1am (this route used to serve downtown and the Mall of America, but has since been replaced by the Hiawatha Line). Heading back from the Mall of America on an articulated bus an older man, presumingly drunk, decided he had enough with Metro Transit and pulled out a pair of pink safety scissors (the plastic ones that make even paper seem strong). Continue reading ‘Pink Safety Scissors’
I hope your face is alright
I usually am the last person to get off my bus on the way home, but every once and a while there is someone that gets off on my stop.
Being an impatient fellow I usually stand up while the bus is moving and work my way to the front of the bus. However since there was two of us in the back of the bus I decided to follow her towards the back exit for a change. Continue reading ‘I hope your face is alright’
That was a different Berkeley back then
I sat by a kind of down-and-out guy and took out the Schubert Mass in A-flat to study (I use my bus time that way a lot on my way to choir practice.)
Anyway, he noticed what I was doing and asked where I sing. I told him St. Agnes, and he rambled a little about how he isn’t Catholic, but he’s had some good experiences talking with Catholic priests in the past… Continue reading ‘That was a different Berkeley back then’
