Alright, Metrobus, Here's Where I Draw the Line
If you regularly ride the DC Metrobus, chances are that you've come into contact with some crazy situations. I've seen an elderly, white, disabled woman launch into a fit of racial aspersions after a young black man tried to help her secure her wheelchair. I've seen crazy vagrants verbally antagonize groups of people. But nothing I've seen on the bus tops what I saw today.
You can generally spot the crazies on the bus pretty quickly. Today a woman was holding up a greeting card for all to see that had a painted picture of an Egyptian male and female. Underneath the picture were the words "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." Bingo.
Soon after, I noticed that this same woman had copies of almost every single Metrobus route map on her person. But that wasn't enough. She started pillaging the stash of Metrobus handouts on the bus and stuffed them in one of her garbage bags. A woman behind her says, "You done take all them?" The crazy woman didn't respond, but did have a look of contempt in her eye.
The crazy woman then requests a stop. The bus is pulling to a stop, and liquid begins to drip from the seat of the crazy woman. As soon as the door to the bus opens, she immediately runs out of the bus, leaving a pool behind her in the seat and on the floor. It's clear that it it was urine.
At first I thought it was an accident, but then realized that she did it to spite the woman who asked her about taking all the Metrobus maps. So nasty.
The one amusing part of this encounter happened after the woman left the bus. A WASPy looking girl was sitting adjacent to the crazy woman, and the girl sat there completely oblivious to what had happened. In fact, she was so oblivious that the pool reached her open-toed, high-heel shoes, and she never realized that her shoes were soaking up the crazy woman's urine.

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Hugh -- Sorry if I break protocol by straying from the "LOST" forum -- but the bus story sounds like one of the backstories from the show! Especially the detail about the open-toe-shoe woman -- so lost in herself that she fails to realize she is awash in the urine of the poor.
Just curious -- are you a religious fellow? Your politics are on your sleeve, but I was just wondering!
Thanks,
Jim
Posted by: Jim | April 12, 2007 9:28 AM
Jim --
Post about anything, man. The blog in theory isn't all about LOST. See Ian's comments from a few days ago about that.
I'm actually not religious because I just wasn't raised in a very religious household. Once I get settled down somewhere, I think I am going to try joining a Unitarian congregation, though.
Posted by: Ryan | April 12, 2007 9:55 AM
God, I hate this city. I am convinced that 75% of the people here are either crazy or assholes...or a combination of both, I suppose.
Posted by: Lindsay | April 15, 2007 8:42 AM
Funny, I accidently called you Hugh! Sorry --
Anyway -- I live close (too close) to Detroit. ... You and your peeps are younger than me, and I find it interesting to take random temperature of things religious, political, etc. as appiciable to the younger!
I was the oppisite -- raised in a religous home. But that made me run like hell from it at the first opportunity. 25 years later, I returned to it. ...
The story of the lady on the bus had me thinking about the state of our fellow man -- that's all!
Take care --
Jim
Posted by: Jim | April 16, 2007 7:40 AM