Freeze pops and cell phones
Well last night I was on my way home from work. I was riding the 4 from downtown to the lyn lake area. The bus was going along smoothly until we were near MCTC. A woman was running trying to catch the bus. Lucky for her someone stopped the bus driver, informing him that the woman was attempting to make it. He stops, she gets on, all is well. Continue reading ‘Freeze pops and cell phones’
Smelly Red Jacket Guy
I ride the 11C from downtown every weekday. If I ride the 5:04 bus, 9 times out of 10, a 50’s-ish gentleman (stretch of the term, really) inevitably sits with me, should I have happened to find an open seat. This wouldn’t bother me normally, but this particular guy in a red jacket, is a smoker, who has obviously just put out his cigarette the moment the bus opens the door. (let’s call him “Smelly Red Jacket Guy”) Continue reading ‘Smelly Red Jacket Guy’
Bad hair decade
In the late 80’s I was on a bus, in Milwaukee. Probably going home from my “McJob” at the downtown mall, late at night. A woman gets on the bus, no one I recalled seeing on that route, as it was usually full of other “McJobbers” from the same mall, most of them high school kids like I was. It was kinda cold out. She had on a knee length wool coat, over a sweater, w. a scarf, a woolen cap, and a head scarf over that. Continue reading ‘Bad hair decade’
Stern and motherly
Many years ago I was on a crowded bus and this kid sat down by me. He was wearing really baggy pants and stunk like only a teenaged boy can stink…sweat and filth and gym socks and stuff. After awhile I felt him sort of jiggling and I looked over to glare at him and froze: the kid had actually opened his fly and was masturbating with his stinky hand on his stinky penis. Oh my God! I didn’t know what to do, but I was on the inside of the seat and couldn’t get out without climbing over him and touching his junk, so I thought fast and decided to be all stern and motherly. I looked over at him and made eye contact, and said “knock it off…put it away right now” and the kid actually did.
