bus stop excitement!

I am yet again sitting at a startbucks, with my laptop, and a nice hot cup of “pike place” coffee.It seems like right now my life is in one of a few places, starbucks, Apple store, Home, or School work. I would say that variety is what marks my life right now. But with bus rides like I just had makes my days feel pretty “on wild.”

Here’s the story…
I needed to be at the Queen st bus station by 1:55 to catch my the route 19 bus out towards Manhiem. I needed to make it to the starbucks where Pearl, Josh and I all connect to head out to philly together.

I made it to the station, about a mile walk, with a little time to spare, so I purchased a 10 trip ticket and made my way to my loading zone. As I approached a saw the bus waiting with a couple of guys at the door. But the odd thing was that the door was shut, and the driver was totally ignoring us.

So the three of us where standing there waiting.
There was:
- myself
- a young African America kid who just graduated high school and was heading out to see “his girl”
and last but not least
- our entertainment or also known as one extremely drunk 40 year old man.

As I approached this gentleman was very aggravated and aggressive towards the driver, yelling and expressing his rather small vocabulary of profanity which consisted mainly of 3 words, which we would hear a lot, and I mean a lot.

I would go on to learn that this gentleman was on the bus, got off the bus to use the bathroom, and then was locked off the bus and not allowed back on it.

He smelt like the bottom of a beer keg and as the minutes rolled by grew in his expression and volume.

The driver was in “shut down mode” until some authorities could arrive to escort this man away.

Here’s the fun part, when this man realized that the driver was not going to open the door for him he decided he would show him who’s boss and climb on the front of the bus and entangled himself in the bike rack. Swearing he would hold on until the doors where open.

Me, seeing a good opportunity, pulled out my camera and started taking his picture, he smiled and waved back. Others joined in on taking pictures, and this attention only fueled his public display. Authorities finally arrived as the man was removed from the front of the bus.

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time.

Here he is posing for his press picture

Here is the Driver ignoring this man as he shows his protest
Here is a little glimpse of his protest!

2 Lessons learned:
1 - the bus is a whole lot of fun
2- never try to reason with a drunk man, just take his picture