The Bus

First blog post! To pop my blog's cherry, just a couple of amusing observations of the minutia when it comes to taking the bus:

- Do you ever notice that if you pull the 'stop the bus' cable just as someone is reaching for it, they turn around to see who did it? They're either curious as to who is getting off with them, or they look with mild indignity because someone got to the cable before they did. "YOU STOLE MY RINGY-DING!"

- This is just ranting, but why the fuck do people feel the need to sit in an aisle seat and have their bags or other shit on the window seat? I can understand if the bus is empty and you need a place to put your case of beer, but if the bus is crowded, put the bag on your lap and let the old man or the preggo have a seat. Hell, let ANYONE have the seat. Nobody should be standing if there's a perfectly good seat that is being taken up by backpacks and shopping bags.

If some airlines are charging fat people for two seats to board an airplane, make these stupid assholes get two passes, or have them pay double fare.

- Back to the amusing part, and this shows how fickle the human race can be. Whenever you get on a bus and it starts filling up, especially in the morning or during rush hour, someone will eventually have to sit next to you. The first thought that your brain produces is 'oh, shit. I can't relax as much now. Stupid people invading my private space'. Eventually, the bus hits major stops, and the population dwindles. Seats are empty now! The person who was invading your personal space, the person you can't stand because of his mere presence next to you, now finds an empty set of seats and leaves to sit there.

When that happens, for the splittiest of split-seconds, do you feel a teensy bit of dejection? "Awwww, what did I do?", then you go back to relaxing. It's extremely fleeting, but it's there.

However, you can feel REALLY bad for a few seconds if the bus is still crowded, and the person sitting next to you gets up and sits next to SOMEONE ELSE. Ever have THAT happen? For a few seconds, you think 'what did I do wrong?' or 'Is my deodorant working?'.

Yay for bad attempts at observational comedy!


- Ryan