17 February 2011

News of the day: A man on a bus exclaims "I'm going to pop everyone on this bus... including the babies!"

Seriously dude.

This reminds me of all the absurd and riveting events I have seen or heard or been involved in while using the MBTA system. The following list (because lists are really neat and fun to make especially when procrastinating) includes a few notable instances:

- A man slowly plucking hairs off a woman's head. She had no clue it was happening.

- A woman slapping a man.

- A homeless man showing me magic card tricks on the bus. He thought it was a gift from God that he could perform real magic. He planned to use his gift to earn money for drugs. He held his finger to his lips and sneakily croaked "shhhhhhh don't tell".

- A man who was blind in his right eye and fancied whiskey.

- A girl puking everywhere.

- A man who I thought was about to puke everywhere but then I realized he was just exhibiting a gag reflex because the woman a few seats down from him was clipping her toe nails. Then I gagged.

- The same man who I thought was having a gag reflex exhibiting the same gag reflex with no reason to gag.

- A man falling asleep standing up. His body literally folded in half so that his head nearly bumped the floor.

- A monkey.

[Ok so I didn't see a monkey but wouldn't that be grand? Also this list wasn't as riveting as I thought it would be and I always figure adding a monkey to any list justifies the making of the list. Try it out sometime]