Thursday service

So I missed my bus this morning by about 20 seconds. In "bus time" that means I was 1/2 hour late. Hrumph! Well I decided to walk to Ashland and wait for THAT bus. When I got there I used the text service to see when the bus was due. It sent me a message back that said the next bus was only going to 74th street. REALLY?!?! I could walk to 74th street and I would STILL be ass out. I came THIS (imagine my hands showing you how close I came) close to going home and going back to sleep until I saw a bus going in the opposite direction. THAT bus was going to 95th and the bus terminal. I can take that shuttle to 55th and still get there near my appointment. Now, normally you see only people that are going to work that early in the morning but this bus had people that looked as if they slept on the bus all night. A rolling motel. Well, I'm still going to make it.

I get to 95th and everybody AND their mothers were on this shuttle. I've never known the long buses to be full but this one was almost at capacity. Then, for the entire trip, I got to hear how the corporate world likes their lunches made for meetings by someone that was getting a new hire up to speed. Did you know that corporate types only like Romaine lettuce? I do now.

After a really sucky treatment I head home and the shuttle had half of the bus driver's union on it. Man, were they talking mucho shit, too! Apparently bus drivers haze each other over driving skills. They have a saying: Are you a bus driver or an operator? A bus driver follows all the rules ad nausea whereas an operator is a superior driver that throws the rules out the window if they see a chance to do something spectacular on the road. I prefer bus drivers.

When I get to 79th I get on the bus and it is pretty full. A guy int he front says, "there is room on the back!" His statement is quickly answered with, "why don't you go back there then?" Oh shit! Normally that would have been a cuss out session between him and the lady who dared to say something but this guy was a seasoned debate master. How did he respond? With the word of God! how do you fight that? You don't unless you want to look like a heathen. He shut her WHOLE operation down and she didn't say a word for the rest of the trip. According to Reverend Brown (that is who he said he was) God loves you even of you don't love Him back and so does the Reverend. Also he doesn't cuss women but he WILL molly wop you if you touch him. His wife left him for another man and he is very happy that happened and he likes young, pretty girls which was evident when he started flirting with a young girl standing near him. He also said that if you didn't want to hear what he had to say you could jump out of the window and get hit by a car. I haven't been to church in a while but I've never known any preacher to tell you to run into traffic if you didn't want to hear the word of God. They must take tithes at gunpoint these days.