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Bible deflection shield
On the University Ave bus, along Midway St Paul, the usual over-full passenger load for that route, a couple people standing in the aisle by the back door, I approached the one open aisle-seat back a few from the front. As my eyes did their rapid scan of seat cleanliness and sittability regarding the person [...]
Permission to sniff
The best story I have about riding on the bus happened about 25 years ago. During rush hour, the bus is packed and I’m stting in the back on the seats that face each other and two well-dressed business women are sitting on the opposite bench. This being Minnesota, there is a space in between [...]
Enjoy your precious life
Some of the bus drivers can be really strange. This one older lady who drove the 16 alway gave a comment every time she let someone off the bus (examples–”have a warm peaceful relaxing evening” or “enjoy the rest of your precious life”. When we came to dr.martin luther king jr. blvd she announces “Dr. [...]
I want some Play Dough
I was on my usual daily commute on the bus, and my freindly bus driver always called out the names of the streets. One of the streets in our area is Plato street. As he called “plato” a little girl riding with her grandmother whines- I want some Play Dough. Everyone on the bus cracked [...]
Will you marry me?
I got on the Selby-Lake bus heading toward Minneapolis and a man sat down in front of me and began proposing marriage and even went so far as to try to put a ring on my finger.
Survival Tips
I am a frequent user of public transportation and can offer the novice rider some survival tips.
En-Route Ettiquette Takes a Breather
As some of my friends know from my text messages en-route, the personal hell I call mass transit is full of colorful folks on the Downtown-to-Uptown line. Today, I got in line for the #4 bus behind one such young man. The minute I ascended the stairs, I was enveloped in – not a slight [...]
Music for everyone
Somehow my ipod decided to delete all of it’s music. Fortunately for me, on this morning’s bus ride the guy sitting to my left was blasting his headphones loud enough that I got to enjoy almost all of disc 1 of Tupac’s “All Eyez on Me.” I’m not being sarcastic, I actually enjoyed it. My [...]
Backpack to the Face
Last week on my way in to work a woman walked down the aisle and as she was dodging legs and shoulders she nearly took off my head with her backpack. Lucky for me I’m skilled at avoiding backpacks but she must have hit someone a couple rows behind because I heard a pissed off [...]
A Bad Habit
I was staring out the window lost in my own thoughts when I was startled by an arm reaching around my neck from the seat behind me. The arm was attached to a hand, which was holding a small knife. I looked up and saw a grinning man with few teeth in the seat behind [...]
