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Look but don’t touch
I always give the seat a quick scan to make sure there is nothing I wouldn’t want to sit on. One day I was going to sit in the seat directly behind the back door when I noticed some poopy looking substance smeared on the divider.
Underlines and Question Marks
To the guy on the bus this morning who:
a) Sat in the outside seat and forced other to stand,
b) Sat his giant, blue duffle bag on the inside seat,
c) Gnawed on the same apple for 25 minutes,
d) Sat with his legs crossed, and
Fight annoying with annoying
I was pleased to see someone on the bus this morning fight annoying with annoying. It was at least an entire block before the next stop and I watched as an impatient woman in a window seat began shuffling around, eventually standing up and asking the girl next to her to let her out. So [...]
Looking for a place to sit?
Best comeback heard yet in response to unwanted sexual advances.
Scruffy older man ogling young woman as she gets on the bus:
“If you’re looking for a place to sit darling , I’ve got one right here”
(pats lap)
Young woman, looking at him disdainfully: “Man, you’re riding the bus too- you can’t do s*%t for me!”
Plenty of open seats
I was riding the 7 bus from downtown Minneapolis to the Seward neighborhood at about 4pm. The bus was only half full, so there were plenty of open rows of seats. I decided to take a seat in the front of the bus where there was plenty of room and hopefully no one [...]
Jesus will save our bowels
A friend and I were in Chicago for St. Patrick’s day last year. On our very first bus ride of the trip, down to the hostel where our friends were staying, an extremely large woman got on the bus. This woman took the seat right next to my friend. The unique thing [...]
Unbathed and out of sorts
Twenty years ago, I was traveling from Corpus Christi to Boston. I remember being somewhere in South Carolina, feeling very sick, and a woman brought me cream of mushroom soup in a styrofoam coffee cup. I was so thankful.
Private Pillow
My most embarressing moment in riding the bus for 20 years is the time some man got on the bus. His eyes looked a little buggy. He moved slow. He sat right down next to me on the first seat. I knew something was going to happen by the way he looked. And it [...]
Thump Thump, Flutter Flutter
Thump, thump, thump …… THUMP, ……. THUMP, THUMP.
Flutter, flutter, flutter.
Can’t reach the pedals
The 4 had it’s hazards on at my stop. As I walked on to the bus, the driver mumbled something at me but i had my ipod on. After a few minutes of sitting there and passengers talking in the background, I took off my ipod and noticed that the driver wasn’t leaving because [...]
