Riding the bus in Alexandria
I wrote up my first day working in Alexandria at the School Nutrition Association on my train ride home:
Day seemed pretty normal for starting a new rotation in office and the people here, the commute here was like a dream couldn't ask for better transition from train to train to bus, albeit took 1.5hrs. The trip home proved to provide me with some interesting conversation waiting for the bus back to the Metro. A gentleman who may or may not be homeless was standing with me. After a minute or so he initiated conversation by asking for the time; from there I found out (all of the below may or may not be true I'm sure you can guess the questionable one's) he grew up 3 blocks from where we were standing; where he was headed to on this bus and then he would be somewheres else (West is all I got); where his children are and what they are doing. His son works for the Tampa Bay Buccaneer's - this is how he (the man with me) got the current RedSkins quarterback hired...goes something like this... he got his son to sell cocaine to some other quarterback and subsequently he lost the job. He figured if they were called the Redskins they should have a black quarterback. He moved on to his upcoming marriage with Michael Jackson and somehow Bill Gates was involved and Condoleezza Rice is going to be the Maid of Honor. He also was the one that told Merriam Barry, former DC Mayor, to run for Mayor.... his next two accomplishments of helping important people become important have escaped me.
We're now on the bus and he sits in front and to the side of me and this is where his major odor spills up my nose and I'm gasping for air. I continue to learn that that he went to Howard University and later to Harvard. Harvard is where Johnny Cochran went to law school, said school is also the one that killed Johnny for winning the OJ Simpson case. He, the odoriferous man, was represented (pre OJ) for car theft. I think that may have been the last comment in the 4-5 blocks we travelled. I could be wrong because that was a lot of information to learn about a complete stranger wanting to know the time in a ~10 minute time span.
Rest of commute home was going well until I accidentally switched over to the wrong orange line and realized 3 stops later. Finally arriving in Vienna and exiting the parking lot, I realized you can longer pay cash to get out you have to use a Smart Trip card, which I didn't have. So I had to re park go buy a card and than try leaving again. This time it took me 2.5hrs to get from point A to point B.
Day seemed pretty normal for starting a new rotation in office and the people here, the commute here was like a dream couldn't ask for better transition from train to train to bus, albeit took 1.5hrs. The trip home proved to provide me with some interesting conversation waiting for the bus back to the Metro. A gentleman who may or may not be homeless was standing with me. After a minute or so he initiated conversation by asking for the time; from there I found out (all of the below may or may not be true I'm sure you can guess the questionable one's) he grew up 3 blocks from where we were standing; where he was headed to on this bus and then he would be somewheres else (West is all I got); where his children are and what they are doing. His son works for the Tampa Bay Buccaneer's - this is how he (the man with me) got the current RedSkins quarterback hired...goes something like this... he got his son to sell cocaine to some other quarterback and subsequently he lost the job. He figured if they were called the Redskins they should have a black quarterback. He moved on to his upcoming marriage with Michael Jackson and somehow Bill Gates was involved and Condoleezza Rice is going to be the Maid of Honor. He also was the one that told Merriam Barry, former DC Mayor, to run for Mayor.... his next two accomplishments of helping important people become important have escaped me.
We're now on the bus and he sits in front and to the side of me and this is where his major odor spills up my nose and I'm gasping for air. I continue to learn that that he went to Howard University and later to Harvard. Harvard is where Johnny Cochran went to law school, said school is also the one that killed Johnny for winning the OJ Simpson case. He, the odoriferous man, was represented (pre OJ) for car theft. I think that may have been the last comment in the 4-5 blocks we travelled. I could be wrong because that was a lot of information to learn about a complete stranger wanting to know the time in a ~10 minute time span.
Rest of commute home was going well until I accidentally switched over to the wrong orange line and realized 3 stops later. Finally arriving in Vienna and exiting the parking lot, I realized you can longer pay cash to get out you have to use a Smart Trip card, which I didn't have. So I had to re park go buy a card and than try leaving again. This time it took me 2.5hrs to get from point A to point B.
posted by BethBB at 8:41 AM
2 Comments:
holy cow....the looney's you meet on public transportation. what a nut, but an entertaining one i suppose. haha. miss ya girl!
ah...welcome to the dc metropolitan area, where the homeless claim to be more accomplished than you! i'm sorry, sounds like your commute was a nightmare.
whenever i sit next to a stinky rider, i try to open the window on the bus just a smidge (if i get a window seat that is) so I can get some fresh air...even if it is freezing cold sometimes. i'd rather be cold than be forced to inhale the odors that come from some of these bus riders...
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