To the couple on the #4 Downtown Thursday night: save your domestic disputes for home. If this is the way you act on a bus full of strangers, I’d hate to see you around your kids. And lady, if heads turn when you walk into a room, what the hell kind of rooms are you in?!
This article appears in May 8-14, 2008.


lol lol about the “if heads turn”I just try not to make eye contact with people on the bus other than to smile at babies and old people, and pretty much as soon as I get on the bus, I can’t wait to get off… its not the bus itself its the close proximity to so many smells, and dirty annoying people. I was recently on the bus early in the morning and the girl in front of me, possibly a dal student, had dirt caked all over her jacket, and wore her hood the whole ride. I guess this is the time of year the good ol student loan runs out – guess times are tough… also nearby was a young lady with her binders and when she reached over him to pull the stop request the 35 – 40 man sitting with her closest to the window said in a flirty way, “Oh i could have pulled that for you.” She did not reply and then he pressed on, in a sickly sweet voice “Oh, you must go to the Big New School, do you?” (we were nearing Citadel High). She got up, sprinted away from him and off the bus – probably running to tell her friends about ol creepy on the bus. oh yes, ever so fortunately – the man behind me stank like cigarettes so bad (not only had he probably just enjoyed a ciggy but his jacket reeked of each ciggy he had enjoyed for probably a couple of years since he last washed it…. and to top off the many noxious scents, this lady (ha ha ha well not much of a lady jeez) was yelling at her son on her cell phone, it was so ridiculous, this pointless conversation, people are so classless!!!yup, the bus, I hate it, the sense are assaulted by riding the bus, its something you got to steel yourself to do and say to yourself – I will not knock the next annoying idiot I encounter the f. out lol lolcause if you’re in a bad mood when you get on the bus its not going to get better. why, why can’t people just get on the bus, be fairly quiet, and not use the close proximity as a stage to exhibit all their neuroses….thankfully the text message has gained in popularity, thereby cutting back on the amount of pointless, loud cell phone convos that a few years ago were more the norm than the text.Here’s a tidbit to all you wannabe Bus Performers: We DONT CARE WE JUST WANNA RIDE THE F**ING BUS TO GET WHERE WE NEED TO GO – WE’RE NOT YOUR FRIENDS, SHUT THE F* UP, SIT THE F* DOWN, NO i’M NOT LOOKING AT YOU, I REALY WISH i DIDN’T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU AND OH YEAH DID I MENTION I DONT CARE :)oh yeah – have a nice day 🙂