A group of about four TEENAGE GIRLS is seated on the seats facing each other towards the front, and talking loudly amongst themselves; one is standing, leaning towards her friends. They are dressed in colorful clothes and several have brightly coloured hair. Across the aisle, an ELDERLY MAN, perhaps of Italian or Greek extraction, is growing annoyed at the amount of noise they're making.
MAN: Shut up.
The GIRL who is standing turns to glare at him; her expression says "no, I will not", or perhaps "fuck you and the horse you rode in on". A moment of silence passes.
MAN: This is bus.
STANDING GIRL: "Kiss this bus"? Why would I want to do that?
The OTHER GIRLS burst into giggling. The MAN glowers at them, irritated.
Posted by: Ben | http://leviathan.weblogs.com | Fri Nov 16 10:23:19 2001
All you needed was Wesley Willis to sing about the Hell Bus Ride and you would be set!
Posted by: Ben | http://leviathan.weblogs.com | Fri Nov 16 10:25:10 2001
Postscript: Ask my brother sometime about the time he got on that same bus and some old greek guy with a ridiculously long bit of timber that stretched the length of the whole bus got on.
Posted by: anthony | http:// | Mon Nov 19 21:12:44 2001
how do you know if the man was italian or greek? and should it matter? i'm sure an elderly australian man would of irritated too..
oh and what comes around, goes around..
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Tue Nov 20 03:25:27 2001
anthony: it was a guess based on his accent and appearance; he was probably from thereabouts.
It matters in this context because it's a description of what he looked like, which is important to relating the story. An elderly Australian could have been irritated just as much, but the story would have been different.
I hope you're not one of those ultra-PC types who regards all references to ethnicity (other than one's own or a fair-game oppressor group) as racism.
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Posted by: mkortexcite.com | http:// | Fri Nov 16 00:26:22 2001
KISS THIS BUS. I love that. power to the people. magic bus? then again, wheres the respect for elders? one day, you too will be a sad old person who is irritated at things, and will shout at the youth, and feel dis'd cant put young heads on old shoulders well, not yet anyway. eventually we will. and watch out then. this problem will ever happen, and we cant change things. But when I used to ride on bus' I was generally well behaved, and was quiet. the youth of today just dont understand. maybe thats why they're young? lock em up, i say. fifteen years in gaol for talking loudly on the bus that will teach them. wont it?*