Why you Mother.....

So I was riding the bus and we stopped at Halsted street to take on passengers. A wheelchair passenger gets on and three people on the left side all moved. Now I found this to be strange because there was only one person on the right side. I was giving the guy on the right the evil eye because he displaced three people because he did not want to move. YOU bastard! He had this look like "I care not for thine disdain and thou shalt brandish thine look elsewhere! Now begone, my rotund friend!" Before I could return an equally disrespectful scowl, this pregnant girl got on with a stroller. Since the CTA allows this it was not a big thing and the people in the front usually move to allow then to put the stroller where the wheelchair would be located. Since the guy in the front didn't move for the wheelchair, the whole bus gave him the sick face so he could move. He was like "I didn't want to sit there anyway" and moved. Then an older guy in front moved as well. Why did that guy move? Then another girl with a stroller boarded. Then a third girl with a stroller got on. What the hell? The problem with the strollers have always been that the mothers are supposed to take the kid out and fold it up so that other people can get on the bus. They never do this and if you tell them about it you usually get cussed out by the mother. Normally I wouldn't care about that but people tend to frown upon dudes cussing out new mothers.

The seeds of discontent

So I was riding the train and this dude gets on the train with two bags. The first bag is a regular bag but is this dude carrying a Pizza Hut Warming bag? Clearly, he is not carrying pizzas unless those were the lumpiest pizzas in the world. As I decided to mind my own business, he breaks out a bag of Sunflower Seeds. UGH!! It's not that I hate sunflower seeds but I DO hate how they are consumed in the Black community. If you have not witnessed this process let me describe it to you. Pour, Insert into mouth hole, chew, spit out shell, repeat. Oh did I not mentions that the shells are being discarded onto the TRAIN FLOOR? Disgusting! The offending person usually leaves a pile of seeds at his or her feet. The only thing I hate worse than that is when people smoke on the bus stop.

Anyway, by the time I get to the bus I just want to be at home. As I near my stop this old guy starts singing Smokey Robinson songs on the bus. Now I'm all for freedom of expression and all but not when it infringes on MY freedom of riding the bus unmolested. STFU!!! The really sad thing is he was a pretty good singer even though he was past his prime about five teeth ago.