bus highlights of late:

TODAY:
a car wanted to turn into my bus's lane from a parking lot, and it did so without waiting for a polite wave of the hand from the bus driver or anything. bus driver: "did i say you could go, knucklehead?"

on the same bus there was a little girl with her mom. cute kid; missing her two front teeth, which made her all the more endearing. she was carrying a purse with the following items in it: a starfish finger puppet, which she waved at me, and a ten pound note. she was kind of awesome.

A FEW DAYS AGO:
there was a more or less crazy dude on my bus. and he was chattering constant, bizarrely inspirational things, like, "the important thing is just to keep living. even if you're a thousand years old, just keep living." then i sneezed and he said, "bless you, baby! bless you!" i thanked him. his next project was talking to this asian kid who had just gotten on the bus and who was clearly not in a talkative mood. the kid did not respond to the crazy guy's conversational overtures, so crazy guy took it up a notch. "you can't ignore me, because i ACKNOWLEDGE you. ching chong ching!" it got more awkward from there because no one wanted to talk to him.