Disclaimer: This is a rant, not a clever post!
My roommate and I have discovered a new bus stop that's actually closer to our house than the other two we've been switching between, which is very groovy. It comes after the other two though, so we don't always get seats together or at all sometimes. Tuesday was one of those days: we were sitting sort-of diagonally from each-other, and I couldn't see Bex cos I had some fool's bloody great backpack right in my face.
So instead of talking through people in the aisle and their bags (quite difficult to do) we just sat in a tired fashion, neither of us having iPods either to escape to. But, never fear, idiot bus girl was there to prevent our ride being one of horrendous silence! One of those people who just talks about herself constantly, she never even acknowledged what her other two "friends" were saying, unless it provided a good segue to something she wanted to tell about herself. Which was always. We now know quite a lot about her though...
She doesn't feel well, and if she gets a fever tomorrow then she's not going out tomorrow night. Well she's not actually sure, she might. She's gonna wait and see how she feels.
She had a bubble bath this weekend, and it was fabulous! She loves freaking bubble baths! (Neither of the people she was with really responded, this of course being a slightly odd thing to talk about.)
She doesn't go to class when she's tired. She gets mad at herself when she does, because then she's not concentrating and is angry with herself at going when she could be sleeping instead or something. So when she doesn't want to go to class she won't, because apparently there is absolutely no point in going if she doesn't want to. (Hell, if i never went to class when I didn't feel like it I wouldn't be able to get a degree and would ultimately have to sell myself or something.)
She went out one night and lost all her friends, but the lucky lady had loads of people pulling at her and wanting her to stay at their house. Some of the said random dudes that she met didn't want her to walk home alone, so they made her stay at their house. She called them her "knights in shining armour" 49287598 times, and didn't see the general dodginess of the situation. She also said that if they ever got girlfriends she would have to meet them, as they evidently became best of friends.
Someone carried her off of the bus once because she was so drunk and had lost her shoes.
This was a bus ride of approximately 20 minutes, and now my roommate and I both know enough about this girl to steal her identity.
I feel your pain. Bus conversationalists are decidedly ridiculous. It did prove for very entertaining reading though :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! I actually sort of hope that I encounter more bus conversationalists like her, it was good fieldwork.
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