It’s an adventure twice a day, every day of the work week. I ride all the way out to Aurora on the Colfax bus and then all the way back to downtown.
People are so fascinating to me. I can’t get enough of people watching.
Yesterday, the bus driver had to stop the bus. One kid, who was blatantly a punk to begin with (I know this because I watched him spit out his peach and throw the half-eaten pit on the ground behind the bus stop, even though the trash can was no more than four feet away from him), but he gets on the bus and decides that it’s appropriate to listen to his music on his cell phone. There’s a “rule” about music on the bus, and it is that you don’t play it. You can listen quietly to your iPod or what not, but you shouldn’t have it playing to where other people can hear you. He was playing his music the entire ride.
Well, one younger guy got on the bus and didn’t like that this kid was playing his music; it was against the “rules.” So he went up to the driver to complain about it. The driver stopped the bus! He went to the back of the bus and inquired about who had the radio. It almost started a brawl between the patrons who were pissed that the guy complained and made the bus driver stop versus the guy who complained because “we have plenty of obnoxious people on the bus as it is and we don’t need another punk playing music!” Several of the people who were pissed off about having the bus stopped kept throwing out, “We don’t give a Fuck about Rules!” It’s true. They don’t. There are a whole new set of rules for riding the Colfax bus. I’ll tell you them: “There are no rules!”
Oi vey. It was pretty amusing. I had been chatting with this very young teenager up until then; she initiated the conversation because she saw my Children’s Hospital pin on my backpack. “You work at Children’s?!” she asked. So we talked about everything she could think of. It’s a nice place to work, and I love the positive attention it brings to me. I love my job! I was able to be a temporary mentor to this young lady, and I loved every minute of it.
Eventually, the bus got to its last stop: my stop. Another woman got off of the bus with me, and she & I began chatting, too. It’s a wonderful way to meet new people to watch. People fascinate me.
One of these days I’ll get paid to be fascinated by you all. In the mean time, I’m just having fun practicing!
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