So I was waiting on the bus since I had missed the one I usually catch. I had walked to the Ashland stop where there was this lady talking on what I assumed was her phone. Her conversation was very lively and one phrase caught my ear. "She was like that even when I had hair.' Wait, What?! I had not looked at her prior to that and I noticed that she had no hair, save for three isolated tufts of hair, and what I thought was a headphone cord was actually a lone, solitary blonde braid anchored to one of the tufts. She was carrying a small baby doll that she was cuddling and talking to it. Oh, I see. This is the bus to the Crazy Train.
She boarded the bus but stopped in the bottleneck area of the bus to look for her fare. The driver was on her business about the fare this morning and she refused to close the door until the fare was paid, or at least that what I thought it was. Truthfully, she left the door open to air out the bus while she was standing there. After a few minutes, the driver took out a bottle of smell-good and proceeded to spray the ENTIRE front of the bus. The crazy part was that no one that subsequently boarded the bus was shocked by her appearance, or they didn't let on that they were.
So I get to the train and I board. I'm waiting for my stop and I notice this super tall guy trying to mess with another guy that is asleep on the train. This will not do. I watch him to make sure he doesn't touch the guy or attempt to steal anything and this does not sit well with the guy. He mumbles something that I ignore but I do not avert my eyes from what he is doing.. I notice that he is not alone and that he has two buddies, one of whom disapproves of me interfering with their fun. The medium size guy decides that he wants to smack me around for being an observant citizen and not minding my own business. The problem with that is I believe it to be my business because I often fall asleep when riding public transportation due to my illness and that could have easily been me on the receiving end of that harassment and I would hope that a concerned citizen would do the same for me. I decide to make a stand. The medium guy tried to run up on me and I got to me feet so quickly that it surprised him and he stopped dead in his tracks (no pun intended). Since he could not run up on me and hit me he decided that he should kick me instead. He kicked me dead in my stomach but I did not flinch (martial arts training). This surprised him so that he spat at me. His smaller friend decided he wanted no parts of this and pushed him off the train at the next stop. I called him a bitch and gestured for him to try it again. That enraged him and he declared that he was, in fact, no bitch! He tried to get back on the train but his smaller buddy would not let him. As a parting shot I asked him if he realized that all that was caught on camera. He is lucky I did not get a chance to lay hands on him because I would have taken out 15 years of frustration on his limbs and it would be me that the cops were seeking. I hope he stays awake at night thinking that the cops might be at his door any day. I hope they catch him on Christmas Eve.
