WTF Bus #5

This morning I was feeling positive when I went to catch the bus. Mainly because this was the first time my lazy ass actually made it to my bus stop on time. Naturally, the right bus I needed to catch was full and sped past my stop because there were no available seats. Clearly the right thing for me to do to break this habit is to get out of my house earlier, but if I did that, then I'd miss some "Boy Meets World" rerun I've probably already seen before. But sure enough, 7 minutes later another bus shows up, and my day decided to get interesting.

The second bus that I saw actually had a lot of open seats for me to not stand around, so I took a small seat close to the front next to a nice woman, wearing very modest clothing. She looked preoccupied on a phone call and I didn't want to disturb her, but she saw that I was going to sit next to her and made enough space available for me. I was going to thank her but she was talking pretty fast with a low volume, so I didn't want to interrupt her.

10 minutes later she's still talking!
It took me 10 minutes to realize that she wasn't on the phone with anyone. She was just talking. To herself. Nonstop. And that's when I knew I was sitting next to a crazy person. That's when I decided to pay a little bit attention to what she was saying, and hear that she referenced me as "light-skinned girl" and would comment about EVERYTHING that passed by on the bus. What was REALLY impressive was that she would make everything sound like 1 long conversation, just a super long sentence about everything that she saw. This is kind of a close example of what she was saying:

Lady: Yeah, the light-skinned girl just sat down. She's very light-skinned, very very light-skinned. But now there's some other people sitting down on the bus and it's just filled to the top with people, just lots and lots of people. It's like this everyday, every day it has a lot of people on this bus. But you know, you do what you do and it is what it is. That's how this place always is, and now I'm going to watch the Notebook (a guy getting off the bus was carrying a folder) and then go off to the school that's right there next to that church that's next to that other bus stop close to Bank of America...."

This went on for 20 minutes. Straight. Wow. What I also found interesting was that after I got off the bus, she was walking down the same path I was leaving to, and she would still talk the same way but ALSO have conversations with people she passed by. That's AMAZING focus... Or amazing crazy. Either one is something I can't do and won't.