I want to see a real future!

Yesterday was a two bus day – I rode in the morning and evening. While overall it was an uneventful day there were a few highlights. The top person on the bus today was only on for one block. He got on at Park and got off at Irving, and sat next to me for his ride. This guy was a young, skinny, nice looking man. The best part – he had on a bright blue Hawaiian shirt! It was fabulous. The funny part has to be the one block ride – I think I’ve done a three block ride before if the bus is there – but one? Who knows.

Then at Chapin, a man gets on, walks to the back (of course), looks at everyone and just belts out: “Who won the election?!” Now I feel pretty strongly that Obama should win the nomination and I had completely blanked that PA had closed the night before. I then heard all this chitter-chatter in the back about “her” and “why?!” and “I want to see a real future!” so I pretty much figured it out. It was confirmed when I arrived at my office and had to look at the pic on the online newspaper site. I couldn’t even bring myself to read one word.

I did learn from the overly-informative Express that the average German eats over 2.2 pounds of white asparagus per year. My first thought was dang – that must stink! But then I realized that I eat about a pound of green asparagus each week so I’ve really got something on the Germans! Come on Express – give me something good in the morning!

I rode the bus home. I completely checked out and ignored that there were others in the universe. I was sitting next to a high school chatterbox who at one point bumped my arm, looked at me, and said “my bad.” I was going to ignore it since I’d checked out of the universe, but dang the look she gave me, so I just quickly said “it’s all right” and we went up the hill. I did notice all of her friends laughing at me when I got off at my stop. Whatever. You know, if I had a penny for every high school kid who laughed at me on the bus, I’d probably be a millionaire.

Morning
Wait: 2
Ride: 34

Evening
Wait: 4 (yeah!)
Ride 27 (this may be a record)