A Private Bus for the Public

Last night was truly a bus hoppers adventure. We started off the night by jumping on the lovely 51 that never fails to surprise us. After a brief ride down to Shattuck we waited almost too long for the 18. But oh it was worth it.

Somehow sitting backwards on the 18 proved to be quite disorienting and there was not even any alcohol involved.

However, there was a man in a wheelchair who was pretty chatty. When it was his stop he said "Open Sesame!" as the bus driver opened the doors. There was also a very angsty Berkeley-High kid who looked like he stepped out of "My So-Called Life"...he was probably angry that he was missing out on Comic-Con this year.

After our 51 and 18 adventures we put in some good times with 75-year-olds...wow, they can sure party.

Coming home was a different sort of adventure. The 18 wasn't living up to its expectations, so we took a big chance and took the 79.

If the 79 was an animal, it would be a small dog...so compact.

We had the whole bus to ourselves which was so nice as we were able to admire the graffiti art on the seats. And sure enough the 79 didn't fail as we ended up where we began.

Oh AC Transit, we love you.

Pregnant on the 51

As I picked up the 51 to come back from an underwhelming movie experience tonight I was surprised, but not that surprised to find myself face to face with a large woman exposing most of her body for the entire world to see. Upon turning to my right to investigate the questionable grunting coming from her side of the bus I noticed her shiny patent boots with faux fur tapping to a non-existent beat. She then moved seats to sit directly next to me and starting sneezing uncontrollably.


I am not sure whether she was pregnant or selling her body to the dimly-lit bus, but whatever it was it wasn't working for me.

Groundhog Day

Since today is in fact February 2nd, 2010, Groundhog Day, I decided to write about an experience I had on the 51 last Friday which will probably occur via deja vu sometime in the future.

As I got on the extremely packed bus with everyone getting off work and school I realized that I was surrounded by many high school boys from Oakland Tech. Though I thought they would surely be discussing their crazy plans for the weekend, but instead they were discussing how "hecka good" Led Zeppelin was. This made me smile.

I hope these surprises occur on my bus adventures more often.