Bad-back woman
I’ll just paste the entire email I sent to customer service @ SW Transit this morning as my bus tale. Maybe I’m the one out of line, you decide. Continue reading ‘Bad-back woman’
The public rapper
Once a week I take my ~2 year old daughter on the 50, to visit her grandparents for the day. This week we were sitting in the front seat playing counting games on our hands and watching the urban charm of University avenue roll by. Continue reading ‘The public rapper’
Not a hat at all
The greatest thing that has ever happened to me on the bus happened last winter. This guy sat down in front of me, and I thought to myself, “my, what an interesting stocking cap he’s wearing!”. The cap in question was navy blue, and flipped very casually to one side of the back of the guys’ head. It looked like one of those hippy-ish floppy hats you often see on bus riding hipster-types. Continue reading ‘Not a hat at all’
Grandma in a candy store
My grandma, who is from a small town in Iowa, was coming back from a trip out East to visit her daughter. She had left her car at my place while she was gone. I was supposed to pick her up at the airport, so I thought - why not leave the car at home and pick her up on the train? Continue reading ‘Grandma in a candy store’

