I sat down in the back of the gypsy bus that takes me into the city for work. I had my choice of prime seating, however I was carrying two bags and my coat in my hands (thanks to this sudden heatwave that is tearing through the metropolitan area..) I sit all the way in the back where there is a row of 6 seats altogether. I am the only one back there so far. My chair is cave-like, almost as if I am sinking into it. I play my tunes, not paying attention to anything on the bus.
In the seconds between a song ending and another one starting, I hear a brief "Hello!" and think nothing of it. The lady in the seat in front and to the left has picked up her phone. As we get closer to the bridge the man with the ginger-red pony tail has turned to look at this lady at least 4 times. At this point, I catch another small piece of her conversation:
"I don't do anything! I stay home and I don't see anybody!"
A young guy gets on the bus and chooses to sit in the back only after I move my coat and my bag that are monopolizing two other seats. I grab my stuff and he sits and when he does, I explain to him that "Sorry, I'm just feel like I'm getting sucked into this..." The man with the ginger-red pony tail turns and laughs, The lady on the phone turns and stares. Apparently, the man with the ginger-red pony-tail has been listening to all sorts of crazy that I have missed and he thought I was too. What I meant to imply was that I felt like I was getting sucked into my chair, but at this point nothing else matters, cause I just realized the lady on the phone was a substitute science teacher at Public School No. 1 and Memorial High School!
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| Look at the anger in her right hand. |
For those of you who didn't go to our school here is a woman that would tell us about science having found Komodo Dragons the size of real mythical dragons on an island somewhere. The same lady that also told us that when Edison patented the Telephone, Elisha Grey, had patented the same invention an hour before (she was right about that one). Also, the same woman that Mrs. Tarr, dubbed the wickedest science teacher in Memorial, bluntly said, "Don't listen to anything that comes out of that woman's mouth."
So hear she is after all these years on my bus and I'm listening to everything coming out of her mouth. It turns out, All of her colleagues still make fun of her and her dad is going through Alzheimer's. I'm sad about both things cause I always thought she was outside of the box, but come on sister, keep it to yourself.
So there I was literally standing up trying to get a picture of her so I can post, but the bus was still moving and there were people trying to get off. While I'm standing right across from her, she does that thing people do when they see someone they know and the other person is pretending not to see them. It's not that I didn't want to talk to her, I just didn't care to do it, after she had everyone on the bus judging her (I still have subconscious catholic guilt at times). I can see her through my 20/20 peripheral sitting up as if trying to get my attention. So instead continuing to record the conversation with my phone, I figured I should be happy with the pictures and move on.
Cheers to her! For being the first (recorded incident) asshole of the day.
