oh that's right... i went there

ok so i kind of decided to do a special blog about my bus ride home today.

today at work everything that could possibly go missing, all went missing at one time. this might not mean much to the average person, but to me it means that everybody and their mama will ask where they can find something is that they cannot find. see, my job could almost be described as a law and order spin-off, but instead of investigating homicides or sexual assualts. i pretty much spend my time looking around the store for clues to the whereabouts of things in the same way people search for their housekeys. with one exception, i have paperwork. so when something goes missing, i am often called upon to locate it. this typically an easy task, unless someone actually looking for their keys. in that case, they would be on their own.

at any rate, after dealing with "where is it?" all day, i hopped a bus and headed home. a couple of blocks into my ride i realized that i had forgotten to tell customer service about something they had me fix for them. so i whip out my cell phone and call them up. while i am on the phone, i notice the lady on front of me keeps turning to give, shall we say "looks". i had just figured it was becuase of the strange work lingo i was using. i can see how when someone uses a word like "orca" in the middle of a sentence it might sound odd.

so i finish the call, then i get ready to put my headphones back in my ears when she does a round about once more. the she says, and i shit you not, "you do know this public transportation. you can't talk on the phone like that" i am like wtf, so i kind of blow her off. she goes on "you need to stop hollering in my ear like that." so i reply with "i am sorry if you feel i was yelling in your even though i was not."

amazingly, my apology only spurns her anger, and just like that i was caught... in a n!gg@# moment. she starts talking about how it is disrepectful, this that and the other. i still disagree with what she is saying, but i then come to the conclusion that this is no win situation. so i tell her "kudos, i am going to put my headphones back in order to ignore you." she says something like i'll show you kudos. i ask her if she wanted a cookie or something, and put my headphones in.

i have to take a second to point out that when i put in my headphones to ignore someone. it is actually a clever ruse so that i can actually listen very intently to what they have to say. she keeps going on and on, at one point i actually try to remind that i am still wearing headphones and cannot hear her rant. she says i heard enough, and starts waving her finger in my face, and despite the fact that kept asking her to stop, she continued. so i responded putting my finger in her face, specifically the middle finger. she keeps going on and drops the f-bomb a few times. so i take out my earbuds, and let her know that she my undivided attention. she continues to bitch, so i call her... a bitch.

what was great, is some how she got offended. she actually stands up on the bus and threatens to kick my ass. i believe her exact words were, "i am willing to go to jail over you. i'll show you who's a bitch." i told her i already knew who was being a bitch, and that she probably spent a great deal of time in jail.

at this point the bus driver asks her to be civil. eventually, she sits back down in her sit and says what every black person who just spent the last thirty minutes cussing someone out for no apparent reason. a phrase with "Jesus" in the mix. i mean honestly, do people thinks makes up for you being a total ass? that is like when people mock someone and then says "god bless 'em", does that really make it ok in their mind. oh, to top it all off, she takes out her cell phone, and calls some to tell them "yeah i am riding the bus with some asshole right now. someone should teach him a lesson." are you serious? so just in case she was actually putting out a hit on me, i snapped a pic with my phone. unfortunately she no longer seemed interested in turning around, and begins clapping and humming what i can only guess was a hymnal. yay for public transportation!