Happy Monday, everyone!
Let’s start the week with some humor and a few observations from public transportation.
I’ve got a backlog. Here’s several from last June 2016. Hope you enjoy!
June 2, 2016 – The mom who bought the potty training video for her kiddo has found a friend! Now they both talk about the topic on the bus. Glad I’m not trying to eat right now … Seriously though, moms raising little ones need friends to help process what they are going through, get support and laugh together. So, good for them (-:
June 3, 2016 – Guy on bus is telling bus driver about his friends, one of which “won an Einstein award” for almost killing himself doing something stupid. I am not even trying to eavesdrop, he’s just talking robustly … Trimet moments!
June 9, 2016 – So the bus is really crowded due to fleets coming in to downtown Portland. There’s a young couple talking about good food and great restaurants to such a degree that a young guy started eating an orange, sighing deeply and muttered, “If people on the bus could just be quiet!” Haha 🙂
June 17, 2016 – There are two little girls on the bus with their mom, kneeling by the window looking out, softly singing “Driving in my car, feeling like a star!” “Driving in my car, feeling like a star!” Over and over and over … pretty cute
June 17, 2016 – Bus going home has to take a detour due to police blocking off Powell between 119 and 136. It’s a tour through a typical SE Portland street. Due to traffic ahead of us, we can only creep along. People walking and on bikes are going faster! But I’m making friends with a Mexican woman and wishing I had a better grasp on Spanish. Ah! Here we are at Division and it’s really backed up too. Glad it’s Friday
June 24, 2016 – Overheard on the bus, gal discussing with her aunt or older friend about taking a litle girl relative to Oaks Park rides, “We have to bring extra clothes, ’cause she’s going to throw up after the rides!”
June 29, 2016 – A guy sat down next to me on a crowded bus, opened his computer and is now balancing his checkbook. He keeps moving his arm around to knock me in the side, but I’ve got my arm down to fend him off! Behind me are two guys talking loudly in computer-speak about the problems with Windows 10, and buying bigger hard drive for some other issue. Hard to enjoy my current Robin Lee Hatcher book, with all these distractions (-: