Today, as the bus was turning off Naito Pkwy towards PSU, the back door suddenly flew open. The bus driver turned off the engine and stomped to the back, shouting, "You'd think for a quarter of a million dollars you'd get a bus with doors that stay shut!!"
Next to me, Clarence whispered, "He's always yelling at the bus, every time I ride this route..."
I met Clarence as part of my ongoing research to find out what people listen to while riding the bus. (Fully half this bus was plugged in.) The guy in front of me was reading Ursula LeGuin and rocking his head back and forth. The 18-year-old in front of me, a cross between clean-cut kid and wanna-be gangsta, was listening to the soundtrack from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
I asked Clarence--a black guy in his late 20's with a soft, round face--what he was listening to. Seems he's a heavy metal fan and his morning music of choice was Mastodon. (He also likes Celtic Frost and Slayer and others whose names I couldn't hear over the driver's shouting at the door.)
Something else about Clarence -- he rides the 54/56 bus all the way north downtown to catch the #44 bus, which he then rides back south to his web design class at PCC Sylvania. Why don't you just hop off in Hillsdale and switch buses and save yourself about 45 minutes, I ask. Well, the bus is too crowded then.
Just another Bus Fan, riding the bus....
P.S. Don't miss more results of my "What are You Listening to Today on the Bus" research...coming soon!
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