There are a lot of whackjobs that ride the buses here in Louisville, our busing system is usually seen as something only the poor and crazy ride. Two incidents that stand out in my mind are:
About a month ago I was sitting on the bus when a youngish black couple come on with their kids, they sit across from me two seats down. The two kids were screaming at the top of their lungs wanting snacks/juice/whatever. The mother kept swatting the little boy yelling "If you don't shut up I will make you!" This only made him cry harder. Eventually he calms down and the mother starts railing on her boyfriend ("Why you aint got a job yet!? You expect me to spend all my food stamps on these kids!?" "You're LAZY. L-A-Z-E-Y, LAZY. You need to go to school or somthing.")
Suddenly there is this god awful smell, to which the mother loudly says "Who the doodied in their pants!? Ya'll are some trifflin' mutha******s." She realizes its coming from her little girl so she takes the girl, lays her on the seat across from her and starts to change her right there. She doesn't ever bother to hide the kid, rather the kid's stuff was displayed for everyone to see. She then takes the filled diaper, rolls it up and tosses it on the floor. She puts a new diaper on the kid (doesn't even wipe its ass, either) and puts her pants back on. Some dude told her to pick the diaper up, to which she leaps up and starts screaming. "IS IT BECAUSE I'M BLACK!? YOU RACIST!!" The whole time the bus driver had been keeping an eye on her, but ignoring her. The driver then says for her to pick up the diaper or she can get off the bus.
The woman picks up the diaper, throws it out the window and gets off the bus anything muttering loudly about 'haters'.
A couple of years ago I was going to work, which I had to take the bus, transfer downtown and go out to the east end. The bus drove past and picked up people from the out-patient drug and rehab center. Anyway, so I am on the bus and I had my big ass bag resting next to me (not covering the seat, but it was in the seat a bit). This guy gets on the bus and is walking towards my seat. He quickly sits down before I had a chance to remove my bag. I see he's going to sit on it and crush some stuff I had inside, so I yanked it out from under him. He turns to me and goes "Whats your problem, cracka-ass bitch!?" I'm startled so I don't say anything. He looks at me clutching my bag and goes "Ohh, I see, the big nigga is going to steal your little purse, is that it, white girl?!"
At this point of the ride I'm usually the only white person on the bus, which is very full, and the worst thing anyone could say on there was loudly yelled: "Why you hate black people you racist bitch?" At once pretty much everyone turns and looks me, and starts muttering. The guy shoves me hard and says "What girl, you wishing you can call the KKK on me? I bet you're a member, you look like one, you little blond ****." I'm still not saying anything, I'm too terrified so I just look out the window. He keeps going on for a bit longer, but eventually gets off at a stop (he attempted to spit on me when he stood up, but missed).
I'm amazed the bus driver didn't say anything, but then again our drivers aren't supposed to do anything until something physical happens. I have never been so scared on that bus before, and I've rode at night with a mini-skirt.
Wow, those two stories make me sound racist. :(
Ania_xox
Agreed.
When I take the subway to school, I have a plethora of hot people to look at. Smokin mid-30's men in business suits, tall hot athletes going to/from the gym, sexy studious dudes reading The Globe and Mail.
yum
Lots of hot girls on the subway too... I love to steal fashion ideas from people-watching.
Silky Johnson
Haha yes, eye contact flirting ftw.
Lira
The most exciting thing that ever happened to me in a bus was meeting a foreigner and asking her out for lunch - and then spending the rest of the day with her.
I also befriended a girl on my way back from São Paulo, also. She added me on Orkut (Google's Social Network) a few months later, but I never met her ever since.
montana
there is this nutjob who has this massive white beard and is quite a special individual. talks to himself really loud, and blurts out very racist comments, sayings and other bull. i remember this one time, he sat three rows from a group of Yugoslavian guys. the guy had just cursing out every balkan state and gone on a massive rant on how gipsys, balkan people and i think russians was root of all evil.
when they caught notice of what he was yapping about because they were quite loud aswell, they had a look on their face that they was going to kick the crap out of him. however, i dissuaded them to not and that the guy is crazy and leaving him alone but i don't know what happened after that since their stop was a couple ones after mine.
iTranscendence
UWM
I get a very nice slice of humanity every day taking the train to work from the north side of Chicago down to the south side. The Red Line holds a special place in my heart. In fact, just yesterday I was sitting next to a woman in her 50s who was mumbling and rocking forwards and backwards whilst chugging a bottle of cough syrup. Soon thereafter a visibly cracked-out man who was playing the role of "deaf and homeless" spent a good 5 minutes preaching to the entire car in an incomprehensible language and begging for change. It really gets interesting down on the Garfield bus. Nothing quite like spending every day with the dregs of society to make you feel better about yourself.
Lira
Oh, I just remembered something:
Do beggars elsewhere in the world ride the buses asking for a spare change? The amusing thing about some of them here in Brazil is that they sometimes sing funny songs, and some even have a rather entertaining argument as to why they're begging. It usually goes like this:
"I could be stealing, I could be killing, I could be <insert atrocious acts here>ing, but I'm here asking you guys for a contribution". I think most people in Brazil recognises this as a classic.
Lebezniatnikov
I ride public transport every day, and depending on my schedule that can involve the subway or bus. A couple of weeks ago there were some college-age guys in a group toward the back of the bus, and one of them actually got up and mooned a sidewalk full of people while we were at a light. Haha, the driver saw in the mirror and made him get off right there in front of all the people that had just seen his ass in the window.
Lebezniatnikov
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Originally posted by Lira
"I could be stealing, I could be killing, I could be <insert atrocious acts here>ing, but I'm here asking you guys for a contribution". I think most people in Brazil recognises this as a classic.
They watch for this pretty closely here, but I've seen a few people try this exact line on the Metro.
Silky Johnson
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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I ride public transport every day, and depending on my schedule that can involve the subway or bus. A couple of weeks ago there were some college-age guys in a group toward the back of the bus, and one of them actually got up and mooned a sidewalk full of people while we were at a light. Haha, the driver saw in the mirror and made him get off right there in front of all the people that had just seen his ass in the window.
Lol, reminds me of that scene in Dirty Work when they moon the movie line, but stop right in front of it. I tried to Youtube it, but it's the only clip not on there. :/
yukii
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Originally posted by iTranscendence
wow. what a stupid girl. i loathe people like her.
