(dave e)

the wheels go round and round

back on el autobus today.

as it happens, david lynch wrote and directed today's public transporation experience.

this morning, our bus kind of went out of commission a few blocks from home when what felt like a crash took place. that familiar crunchy-pop sound, the driver looks out her sideview mirror, picks up the phone (seriously, rideon buses have an old-fashioned telephone handset for communication... i imagine ralph cramden would rather talk on the phone than be all CHiPs with a c.b.), and everyone de-buses. i saw no car crumpled into the back of our gillig phantom, so maybe the engine just blew up.

my afternoon metro train (i'm giving you these links, dawgs, so you get out of your cars and on the bus... we got this here code red on) crawled its last 1/4 mile to the station at roughly 2 miles an hour. when we lurched in, the driver incoherently mumbled what i can only guess was "red line service" and waited a good minute before he opened the door. i bolted.

at the bus stop, a man was shouting at these two girls that they were going to "stop laughing when they got BURNED LIKE BACON GODDAMIT." the man kept trying to tell others the same thing. the bus driver was, simply put, nonplussed. as soon as bacon man started walking in circles around the bus stop bench, another man, middle-aged, approached the same (by now, not very happy) girls, who i'd guess were probably, like, middle schoolers. "hey y'all go to the same school y'all in school y'all takin' summer school what y'all doin on the bus where's your school?" i haven't been that creeped out in a while. on the bus, bacon man told everyone it was hot outside and that "whew, i'm going to call it a day."

i guess it's the heat. but, then again, just another day on Our Nation's Capital's trains and Our Nation's Capital's Adjoining Counties' buses.

[edit: well, at least i got off before this happened.]

Posted by dave at June 25, 2003 3:20 PM | TrackBack