Sure, Why Not?

Why do so many fat people ride the bus?

I was thinking about this today. It doesn’t make sense. How is it bus riders can be so fat now and then? Some practically need two or three whole seats just to fit their gigantic asses. It’s scary.

But, really, it doesn’t make sense. Riding the bus requires a lot of walking. Lots of crossing roads, lots of picking up the pace if you’re running late, lots of walking from roads to destination buildings which can often be a few blocks away. In spite of all this, these people remain fat. How they even get to the bus without collapsing of a heart attack is beyond me.
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And now, for a rather stop-and-go episode of…

Here’s to You!

So I raise my glass and say, “Here’s to you, Ride On Route 47.”

It’s rather odd I’m toasting this bus route since I could swear it is out to screw me over. So often when I’ve taken this bus, its schedule works so out of synch with another bus I may be taking before or after it. Usually it leaves where I’d get on it like five minutes before my previous bus would arrive there. Oh, and it’s never late. All the other buses are often a minute or two late, but not Route 47. That is, unless I’m waiting for it and am in a hurry. THEN it will be either late or totally skip the run! Grrr.
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So I was waiting at the bus stop this afternoon when I began watching this little gypsy moth caterpillar inching along the sidewalk. Just minding its own business. The bus was late because it sucks, but I passed the time watching this little caterpillar.
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So I was on my way home from work today. I got on the bus and set my jacket and bag down on a seat while reaching into my pocket to get some change to pay the fare. While getting the necessary dollar and quarter, I look at the seat next to my bag, and what should I see, but a bus transfer. For today. Good until 8pm. If I just took it, and pretended I had just pulled it out of my bag or something, I wouldn’t have to pay and would get a free ride!
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Okay, so I was riding the bus home from work today. These two guys sitting somewhere behind me get to talking to each other loudly about something or other. I wasn’t paying a lot of attention. I think it was about football, since they mentioned Marcus Vick and Terrell Owens a couple of times. Meh, not the point. Anyway, they were yakking and yakking. It was a pretty full bus, and they were pretty much the only ones talking. Talking very profanely at that, hehehe.
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Since I have no car, I have to ride the bus to work every morning. Pretty decent county-wide bus, although I hate how it takes me like an hour and a half to get to work when the ride would be at the most five to ten minutes if I were driving there myself. But, beside the point.

I tend to be a bit tired in the morning. Sometimes when taking the Ride On 55 north to work I would drift off for a couple of seconds. One day, I was asleep for a full several minutes. I woke up well before I needed to get off, so there was no problem. So, when I got to work, I mentioned at lunch time to my coworkers that I had fallen asleep on bus that morning. I said the same when I got home that evening to my grandmother.
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