Buscapades

This blog is frequently my commentary about my escapades while riding the bus to and from work, I call them "buscapades". But I also ramble about other random things I see and experience.

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Fair Warning

Good Morning All (and I use that term loosely because there may not be anyone besides me reading this).  I know it's been a while since I've posted here but sticking with things is a problem of mine.  I can't even say I'm working on it, for right now I just recognize that it's a problem.

Anywho, I rode the bus this morning like I always do and a woman, young lady... female (I don't know her age because I never looked up from my tablet ((another problem... look up, pay attention and be aware)) ) sat down next to me.  She was..... large.... ..... so I adjusted myself over so our thighs weren't touching.  Then I adjusted again, and again and the one more time.  It seemed like every time I moved she filled that space.  I got kind of mad because now she was sitting in her seat and mine.  The comedian in me came out and suggested (to me) that she pay for two fares since she was taking up two seats.... They do that on the airlines right?  I laughed in my head at my joke (I'm kinda laughing as I write this now). 

Once I got to work I came across my niece's blogpost about being obedient to God and it kind of got me thinking......  maybe I should cut folks some slack.  Maybe it's not this person's fault that she's big (ummmm, yeah..... He still has a lot of work to do on me...... woooooooo) and maybe, just maybe I shouldn't make her the butt of my jokes (oh y'all know I'm STUPID right?)............................................... I can't, I CANNOT!  Not today.  My inner comedian is itching to come out and I'm fighting a battle right now so I'm just gonna throw in the towel.  Do y'all see the struggle I sometimes go through to get my mind right?  I'm not always successful though, I admit it.  Let's just call this "fair warning". 

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I Lack Coffee Making Skills

First I need to thank the good folks at Keurig because without them I'd never make a decent cup of coffee. #IJS I've come to the conclusion that I'm seriously over thinking the act of making coffee. Every time I try and use a coffeemaker other than my Keurig I find myself googling "how to make coffee". Honestly I don't understand why it's so hard for me..... I cook, I follow recipes, I have a college degree, what's the problem? Well today I finally realized it's not me, it's them........ how was I supposed to know that a cup wasn't really a CUP meaning 8 ounces, a cup in coffee-speak is SIX ounces! HELLO! That makes a huge difference!! Do you guys have any clue how much awful coffee I've either choked down or wasted? Had "they" saw fit to explain this in a way I could understand then I would have saved tons of time and money.....DUH. In my mind I hear my kid's voices saying "you mad"? LOL Yeah, yeah I am.

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Sorry to neglect you.

I know, I know, it's been quite some time since I've blogged.... on one hand, I never promised to do this on a regular basis. #IJS On the other hand, I've been busy and there hasn't been much happening on the bus lately.  With that being said I've decided to write about other things too.  My niece has started a blog over on another site called The Life and Times of J.Riley and I'm really enjoying her musings (that's a word right?) and they've motivated me to get on back over here and write some more, even if no one is reading this stuff! LOL

So I make a promise to try to share more of my randomness with whoever is or is not reading this blog.  And like my niece said in hers, something I say may help someone somehow.

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Nosy!

Please tell me why the lady behind me on the bus just commented on a picture I was looking at on my Facebook timeline? She asked me "is that so and so?" I don't remember the name she said. WTH! I mean I'm sure people look at your phone all the time but you gonna comment AND ask a question!?!  WOW!

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What You See IS What You Get

In the IT industry we call this WYSIWYG (wiz-e-wig), and the man sitting next to me on the bus this morning definitely fell into this category... let me explain.  Have you ever seen someone who looked so bummy and downright raggedy that you imagined that they would stink if you got near them?  And oftentimes you find out that no, they don't stink they're just dressed that way?  Well, the man that sat down next to me today (and in front of me the other day) absolutely was "what you see is what you get"!  He looked raggedy, and he smelled even worse!  I instantly got  PISSED!  I wanted to get off the bus and WALK the rest of the way to work (which was still quite far)!

At first I tried to slyly cover my nose and breathe through my mouth so that I wasn't being obvious and offending him, but then I thought HELL, he offended EVERYONE by coming on the bus smelling like death anyway!  All I could do was lean towards the window and pray that the bus would hurry up.  I still ended up getting off before my stop and walking some, in the rain!  I couldn't take it anymore.  That last block or so just did me in.... his stench was combining with the "spicy" smell of the woman who had gotten on several blocks before the stinky man.  She smelled like she had just cooked some Pakastanian food before getting on the bus!  Now don't nobody go getting offended; my mother used to live upstairs from a Pakastanian family and whenever they cooked this is what it smelled like in my mom's house!  I'm assuming it's the spices they used.  Anyway, she had sat down behind me; it was a strong smell but it wasn't intolerable or anything.  But add that to this man's funk -- actually funk is too tame of a word, this was just NASTY smelling -- add those two smells together and it got just............ WOW! Then......... then I thought I could smell urine!  Did this son of a ........ pee on himself sitting next to me??????!!! WTF?  I was done, I got the hell off that bus.

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To good to be true

Well I should have known I couldn't go a whole day without some bus foolery... OMG! This evening I'm taking a different bus home cause I missed my regular one... First of all, can I tell you this bus is FUNKY including the velour wearing brotha sitting next to me. This bus is so freaking crowded, there are two strollers and 50-11 people! Right about now I'm praying for some of that cold air I complain about because this man is literally melting in this seat. He wiping his sweaty face and sweating more, wiping and sweating I am so grossed out. Do you think maybe if he wasn't wearing that damn suit he wouldn't be so hot?

Lord give me strength or barring that a nose plug!

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Is that me?

So I haven't had any great bus stories to share with you guys lately, which is both good and bad... good because folks are not doing foolish stuff on the buses, and bad because 1) I have no stories to share and 2) it's probably building up to something REALLY stupid happening in the near future. *shrugging* Oh well, all I can do is wait and see.

Anyway, I thought I'd share a funny with you that happened to me this morning.  On my way into City Hall this morning I started to hear this really high pitched whining kind of buzz in my ears.  I at first thought it was something inside the building, but as I made my way up to my office I realized I still heard it.  Of course now I'm starting to panic thinking this ringing was in MY ears only.  I know I've read that as symptoms of SOMETHING, I just can't remember what.  Anyway, I was worried that something else was wrong with me.  Well I finally realized that the noise I was hearing was the alert on my new insulin pump!  It was letting me know that it was no longer dispensing any insulin (I still don't know what went wrong) and that I needed to remove it and start over!

I'm sure you're wondering how I could not know that it was me making that stupid high pitched noise right?  Well, don't judge me, I've only been wearing this thing since the end of August and with it buried underneath my coat and all my clothes the noise was pretty faint.  I've heard the same noise a couple of other times when my pump ran out of insulin, but it was SIGNIFICANTLY louder then so it was a bit more obvious.  *shrugs again*  I'm just glad no one was walking next to me looking at me like, why is that chick beeping like that?  LOL

It's a work in progress, but I'll get it down soon.

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Flag on the play....Encroachment!

Wowsers, this woman that just sat down next to me is most definitely encroaching on my space. When you sit next to someone and your EVERYTHING touches me then you have most definitely infringed on my space. WOW!

Ok that really wasn't what this was about, but I was distracted by ALLLL that! But sometimes I wish I could summon Stacey London and Clinton Kelly the same way folks call for their State Farm agents in the commercials because this episode would be titled, What Never In Life To Wear! Can we just start with the Hello Kitty purse this woman was carrying and move onto the thick black fake eyelashes she was wearing.... women, THAT'S NOT CUTE!

I'm jumping down off my soapbox before I get carried away..........

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Mean muggin'...

WOW, I just got mean mugged by a little 4-year old! She was so frowned up at me that you would have thought I'd done or said something out of order to her.  What was that about, she unhappy to be on the bus, didn't like how I looked this morning or what?  Kids are like mini adults now days...

The bus is really, really losing it's appeal.....

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The stench of 40,000 years!

It's Monday, I'm tired and I'm just ready to go home and relax when I get on the bus and see it's pretty crowded, nothing but single seats left... but wait, there's one way in the back. I make my way back there and sit down, that's when it hit me. I now know why that seat was left empty. The man sitting in the seat in front of me smelled like he hadn't bathed..........EVER! OMG, who does that?  This is the kind of funk where you have to breathe strictly through your mouth so it's not so strong, where he leaves but the scent remains! How does a person stand being near themselves smelling that bad? YUCK. That's enough to just make you mad, and now I am!

I just love riding on the bus... somebody tell me why I'm doing this please........

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Mamas, get your babies!

So while riding the bus, home this time, a little boy about two sits behind me. At first I don't pay him any attention, that is until he pulls my hair. Yep, the little brat pulled my dreads. I looked at his crumb laden little face and he's smiling...he's cute so I smile back and tell him not to do that. He proceeds to do it a couple more times....his mother who is sitting across the row never says anything. What's wrong with mamas today?I guess I would have been wrong if I had thumped the little crumb snatcher in the head wouldn't I?

This bus riding is something else!

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Blonde haired, blue eyed.... Sistah?

When I ride to work, I consider that time "my time", I generally use it to read which is what I was doing this morning, that is until the blonde haired, blue eyed sistah sat down next to me.  I normally wouldn't have even looked up from my book except that this woman was rocking back and forth next to me.  When I looked up I saw these bright blue eyes and platinum blonde hair.... needless to say she caught my attention!  Anyway, she seemed rather antsy which in turn made me kind of nervous; she looked like she was ready to spring into action at a moment's notice.  This concerned me because I was on the inside seat and would have to get past her if something crazy jumped off.  Luckily, nothing happened, she get off a few stops later and I returned to the entertainment of my book.

Just another morning on mass transit.