The Finger Muncher and How I Beat the System

So I think I've been getting better at strategically taking the bus lately. It's starting to feel like a high stakes game. Either I succeed and peacefully enjoy my ride home, or I fail and suffer the consequences. Not long ago what I thought was a pretty good plan almost worked, actually I'd say it worked pretty well except for I saw some sort of a monster.

July 2013

After an unfortunately common bus ride of standing shoulder to shoulder the whole time I decided that I'd had enough. That night I devised a complicated plan that would take me on a couple different buses, would be less crowded and only take about 10 minutes longer than my sardine packed route. It was going to be my masterpiece. I spent the last 20 minutes or so of work double checking and making sure that everything would run smoothly.

I watched my usual bus go by when I was waiting for my new one and I felt pretty proud of myself. I started grinning like a crazy person when the new bus showed up and it was about half full. This is about how I was feeling on the bus. It may seem like I'm over hyping this plan but it was such a moment for me, I had beaten the bus route of hell.

While I was comfortable and cool on the bus there were still some strange goings on that day. Another guy got on a stop that I didn't know. This bus went through some streets that I'd never been to, and apparently strange cannibals live there. This guy who had gotten on started biting his finger nails, which isn't weird. I've been known to do the same sometimes, so I ignored him. Later when I was getting off the bus to transfer I noticed that he wasn't biting his nails, he was putting the entire tips of fingers into his mouth and was chewing on them. What the actual heck? Why must something always happen on the bus. I got out of there to transfer pretty quickly as this guy was seriously weirding me out.

As a whole besides running into sketchy Hannibal Lecter I was pretty happy with this bus route, even though it's weirder, I'll take weird over big dudes sweating on me.

Oh and when I transferred buses, the next bus came literally 30 seconds after I got off the first bus. That's not part of the story but I just wanted to brag about it.