Friday, July 10, 2009

A Funny Thing Happened at the Bus Stop

Seeing that I spend a great deal of time at bus stops, especially bus stops around Eureka, I really shouldn't be surprised/disgusted/bemused by all the weird things I see.
For example:
  • A drunk, shirtless guy belting out country music in front of his house at 7:30 a.m on a Wednesday in February.
  • A car that reeked of death pulling up and dropping off a woman and her son. "Are you sure I can't take you all the way home?" the driver asked the woman, then as he drove away the woman turned to me and asked if I smelt something funny. I said "yes, it was that guy's car, it smelled like death. " She stares at me and murmurs "oh, oh God"
  • A man on the bus dropping his burrito and then yelling "FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!"
  • A homeless man rummaging through the trash can next to me, pulling out a nearly empty vodka bottle, draining it into his gullet then storming off screaming " I'm NOT crazy! What do you think I am, STUPID?!?!"
  • A man doing a series of stretches while wearing cowboy chaps and smoking a cigarette.
  • People lighting joints at the back of the bus, then staring down everyone around them.
  • The dirtiest woman I have ever seen. Cankles encrusted with grime, holey sweatpants, desperately attempting to glue a cigarette back together with her own saliva.
  • A woman with her child. The child screaming, the mother screaming at the child, the child screaming back at her.
  • A 15 year old boy hitting on a much older woman. "I'm experienced with ladies, I know how to treat a lady right"
  • Two girls talking about narrative devices: "so when a movie shows something that symbolizes what is going to happen in the future that's like called forshowering right?" "yeah, forshowering."
  • "people who go to the (local community college) are really dumb and ignorant, I know how to work the system" "So what school do you go to?" "(local community college)"
  • A couple dressed up in mardi gras clothing pulled up and asking me where a certain hotel is.
  • A homeless man coming up and asking for change. " Sorry, no change, all I have is my bus pass" says the man next to me. Next he asks me "Sorry, all I have is my bus pass too" He rolls his eyes and then starts to yell at me about how all he wants is a little change so he can buy a coffee. The bus then comes and the man in front of me pays in cash, I pay with my bus pass.
I really could go on forever. But I won't.