Bus Times

Hello Interwebs,

I figure since I ride public transit quite often and experience all types of peoples I would share some of these stories with you.

A couple of weeks ago I was on my way back to my parent's house. The bus ride takes around an hour and a half straight from downtown, so I usually kick back with my music plugged in and focus on the scenery; however there was a lot of night-time road reconstruction, and since there is only one road leading in and out of this town, the bus had to stop and wait for half an hour before moving ahead.

There was a woman on the bus who had been animatedly speaking with an older mother and her grown son. She was dressed in tight, black pants, a tight fitting jacket, and heavy make-up. When the bus had come to a stop she stood up to see what was going on then began pacing the aisle on the bottom level of the double decker.

Eventually she phoned someone to tell them she was stuck in road construction. She then began expressing her thoughts out loud wishing for us to move soon.

A tall, large, shaved-headed man then told her to "shut the f* up".

To which she responded, "excuse me? What did you just say to me? You don't speak to women that way!"

He smirked and said something which I could not hear and the woman continued to stare back at him.

At some point the "argument," mostly propelled by the woman, got into how "Do you think you could ever get with this? No one would ever touch you, you fat, disgusting slob. You're disgusting and you could never have a piece of this."

He just shook his head and said, "I would never want to touch you, because you look like a whore."

She continued to get all fired up and talking about how he wasn't good enough to ever get someone who looked like her and eventually walked up to the bus driver to complain about the man.

Of course the driver did nothing, probably wanting to remain neutral because... well, I live in a pretty sketch town, and it's just one of those towns where these kinds of shit stirrers like to inhabit.

The man finally got to his stop and as he jumped off the bus he whipped out a knife and said "The next time I see you at a bus stop, bitch" and motioned the knife across his throat. He then disappeared down a dark, unlit road... no lie.

Well, the woman continued on and asking every single person on the bus if they heard the man, and saw the 16 inch knife he'd whipped out and "I should call the cops, I have kids, what the hell?"

It was interesting, all I hope is to never bump into that fellow again, and since no one got hurt.... it was quite entertaining :) but only because no one got hurt.

-_-