Due to my not having a car, I basically bus to and from work everyday. Yesterday I had the misfortune to drinking coffee later in the afternoon than I had intended, and as a result, by the time I got on the bus, the constant starting-and-stopping motion made me really, really nauseaus. At some point on the route, three high school boys got on the bus. Well, they looked like they should be in high school anyway, whether or not they were actually enrolled anywhere I can't really say. Anyway, I was sitting in one of those seats on the bus that faces each other. One of the boys sat next to me, one boy sat opposite and facing him while a third boy ended up standing not too far since almost all of the seats were taken.
Bear in mind that I was already nauseaus when they got on the bus. This is further componded when the boys came onboard 'cause one of them must've forgotten to take a shower that day. Or that week. The smell made me even more nauseaus and it took everything I had in me to keep from hurling right there on the bus. We were still in Bellevue, and given that it was peak traffic time, I knew that it would be at least half an hour before I would be free from the smell and the motion of the bus. So I closed my eyes, said a few prayers asking for divine help to keep me from upchucking and hoped for the best.
And then they started talking. I'm sure you've been in those situations where you're in a public place and someone started talking in a voice so loud it's like they were trying to have a conversation with the whole room. That's pretty much what happened at that point. I think the whole bus could've heard what they were talking about. I'm surprised people in Canada didn't hear what they had to say, it was so loud. I'm sure my nausea made it seem even louder than what it was, but still, what it was was pretty damn loud. As I close my eye and try to block things out, I managed to do a spectacular job of blocking most of the conversation that was going on between the three of them.
Then the boy sitting opposite of me took out his cell phone and made a phone call. As much as I try to block out things, for some reason the things he said next were crystal clear:
Boy (on his cell) : Hey man, We're on our way to Seattle. We wanna buy a quarter. Do you have any?
Short silence follows... then...
Boy: Oh okay. Later. (got off his cell and looked at his other friends). He said he's out of stock.
O..M...G. Did I just hear him try and buy some drugs while he's on the bus?
..... to be continued in a later post. Gotta keep people guessing!
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