The Bus Rumble

As bad as taking the bus can be, it only gets worse in the snow. Buses break, they're cold, people take up way to much room with ridiculous poofy jackets. Snow just generally sucks and it causes going to and from work actually worse than work itself. One time I caught myself not wanting work to end... I was a stranger to myself. Anyways one time I learned that even if it can get scary, the bus isn't the worst thing in the world.

February 2013

I was on the bus ride home from work one day, there was a snow storm outside that was altogether way too late given that it was February. Everything was going fine until all of sudden I heard someone yell. This is a bus rider's worst nightmare, unless this happens cause that always makes me laugh. Usually though a bus fight just makes everyone feel uncomfortable, especially me. Sometimes I won't tell the person at Subway that I didn't want the tomatoes she just put on cause I'm scared she'll start screaming at me, you never know. Anyways it's your typical bus screaming and swearing fight. That is until everything changed

Two girls were screaming, let's call them Sally and Jane. Sally is pissed that Jane disrespected her and Jane feels disrespected by that. That's as far as I'll go into their conversation because otherwise I'll have to write things that I'd have to try and wash out with soap. All of a sudden though a third girl joins the fray, let's call her Crazy Psycho Girl. So CPG marches up to Sally and Jane and starts yelling at Jane. Both the original girls seem just confuddled. Crazy Psycho Girl starts screaming that Jane has no right to treat Sally like that. At this point I stop awkwardly looking down and instead look awkwardly out the window, so I can at least sort of see whats going on.

The next thing that Jane says feels like it happened it slow motion, like a car crash. Jane turns to CPG and asks "Who are you?". CPG does not like this and probably would've lost her mind if she had it in the first place. She takes Sally and pulls her away while screaming "She doesn't even know who I am!" over and over. Sally looks terrified and eventually gets away and sits quietly somewhere else. CPG is not done yet, this is where things get really scary.

I'm wondering if the bus driver is going to do anything, but he's pretending to be focused on the road. Crazy Psycho girl starts yelling to individual bystanders about how Jane does't know her. I can see CPG getting close to me and I start to panic. I try so hard to avoid this everyday, how can this be happening to me?! In fear I yank the cord to stop the bus and run out at the next stop... Then I remember the snow storm. I walk back to my house in the storm debating whether my cold death will be worth avoiding the unstable woman from the bus.

It definitely was.