9.01.2005
One of the buses is named "Chrocodile Rock"...no foolin'
I've become great friends with the Bonanza Bus Lines and their spritely named Peter Pan (e.g. "Elfin Power", "Fawn of the Forrest", etc...) carriages this summer...so much so, that I considered offering the driver of the Hartford-Providence route the "Be Fri" half of my heart shaped "Best Friends" necklace...therefore leaving myself with the tolerable "st ends" half...
I don't know the driver's name, but, in my head, I call him "Chuck"...not that all bus drivers deserve such a distinguished name or anything, it's just that this particular one looks like a "Chuck"...mind you, not a "Charlie" or a "Charles"...so, don't get confused...this has no significance to my story, I'd just thought I'd share it. Anyway, my stories have no point, so I'll say whatever I damn well please! Yeah.
So, I ended up going to Connecticut this week, even though I said I wasn't going anywhere. I lied. I feel like I'm allowed to lie here because I've already claimed it in the blog title...so, I wouldn't want to lie by not lying...ummm...lie.
So...I was riding the bus. I like riding the bus. If it were free, I'd do it all the time...from here to there, back to here...just listening to music...reading...there's no stress of feeling that I should be progressing...no worries...usually.
This time around, I had one worry (I've come to realize since a small amount of time has passed )that I will carry with me forever...
I was enjoying my ride on Monday afternoon...Ipod and earbud headphones in my right hand and side head-holes, respectively...when a lady who was sitting a two rows and catty-cornered to me on the bus turned and waved me down. I caught the signal...I figured she had something to say to me...
Lady: Uh. Hi. Yeah...um. Could you turn down your music? I can hear it over hear and it's sort of disturbing me...huh huh...yeah.
Me: Really? You can hear it? Yeah...ok. I'm sorry.
I try to be at least semi-polite when I'm in public, so I turned my music down. But, what I really don't understand is how she heard it to begin with. My earphones fit into my ears and I was listening to Elton John...granted, I usually keep my music pretty loud so I can guarantee that I drown out the sound of chipper, barefoot hippie-women who sit in the first bus seat and conspicuously read "On the Road" while trying to discuss the merits of being-a-travelin' with the bus driver...
Maybe she's sensitive...or maybe I'm loud and obnoxious...I know KiKi Dee and Elton can really pushes those sopranos...soooo, I don't know...
But, this lady has made me forever paranoid about listening to music in public...I don't know if my average music listening volume is too loud for normal people or just annoying to bat-women. I don't want to annoy people...even the one's that are obnoxious themselves...
This seems like the appropriate time use my favorite MST3K quote: "These are the kinds of problems you want to have"
I don't know the driver's name, but, in my head, I call him "Chuck"...not that all bus drivers deserve such a distinguished name or anything, it's just that this particular one looks like a "Chuck"...mind you, not a "Charlie" or a "Charles"...so, don't get confused...this has no significance to my story, I'd just thought I'd share it. Anyway, my stories have no point, so I'll say whatever I damn well please! Yeah.
So, I ended up going to Connecticut this week, even though I said I wasn't going anywhere. I lied. I feel like I'm allowed to lie here because I've already claimed it in the blog title...so, I wouldn't want to lie by not lying...ummm...lie.
So...I was riding the bus. I like riding the bus. If it were free, I'd do it all the time...from here to there, back to here...just listening to music...reading...there's no stress of feeling that I should be progressing...no worries...usually.
This time around, I had one worry (I've come to realize since a small amount of time has passed )that I will carry with me forever...
I was enjoying my ride on Monday afternoon...Ipod and earbud headphones in my right hand and side head-holes, respectively...when a lady who was sitting a two rows and catty-cornered to me on the bus turned and waved me down. I caught the signal...I figured she had something to say to me...
Lady: Uh. Hi. Yeah...um. Could you turn down your music? I can hear it over hear and it's sort of disturbing me...huh huh...yeah.
Me: Really? You can hear it? Yeah...ok. I'm sorry.
I try to be at least semi-polite when I'm in public, so I turned my music down. But, what I really don't understand is how she heard it to begin with. My earphones fit into my ears and I was listening to Elton John...granted, I usually keep my music pretty loud so I can guarantee that I drown out the sound of chipper, barefoot hippie-women who sit in the first bus seat and conspicuously read "On the Road" while trying to discuss the merits of being-a-travelin' with the bus driver...
Maybe she's sensitive...or maybe I'm loud and obnoxious...I know KiKi Dee and Elton can really pushes those sopranos...soooo, I don't know...
But, this lady has made me forever paranoid about listening to music in public...I don't know if my average music listening volume is too loud for normal people or just annoying to bat-women. I don't want to annoy people...even the one's that are obnoxious themselves...
This seems like the appropriate time use my favorite MST3K quote: "These are the kinds of problems you want to have"
--- a likely story from --- themellenhead @ 12:19 AM 
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I heart E.J. & Kiki Dee----that's probably one of my favorite Elton songs---well, that, and Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer (Tony Danza).
I also heart being on the bus---when I was in Austin, yes, it was a bit of a pain to have to wait for the bus to show up and to share my seat, but overall having someone else take you everywhere (for free!) was great! Too bad the public transportation where i live now is shit. Otherwise, I'd be all about the bus!
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I also heart being on the bus---when I was in Austin, yes, it was a bit of a pain to have to wait for the bus to show up and to share my seat, but overall having someone else take you everywhere (for free!) was great! Too bad the public transportation where i live now is shit. Otherwise, I'd be all about the bus!
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