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Sleeps with the buses

About 7 years ago, I rode the entire route from downtown St. Paul to its layover back them near the Uptown Rainbow. I was really pregnant at the time, and few people will give up their seats for a pregnant woman. Strangely, this packed bus, with people standing in the aisle had one open seat- next to an obviously homeless, very dirty man who appeared to be sleeping. So I sat down. I didn’t care who I sat next to. The entire ride, this man kept leaning forward into people and onto me… I just pushed him back to his side of the seat and kept sitting.

As we pulled up to the layover spot, and the last of us prepared to get off, we were met with Transit Police. Apparently this man had been on the bus for some time. Because he was dead, I soon discovered. I had the 21 with a dead man.

Tale by Telizas, posted on March 30, 2007, Tagged with dead, homeless, packed, police, pregnant

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