... Your account of your journey was informative and amusing. When I can, I fly. But a good portion of the time when I'm heading a few hundred miles or so away, I do take ground travel. Amtrak's sparse service in the South is disgraceful. So I have taken some long bus rides. I do agree it can be an interesting sociological experience.
Originally Posted by Lena Duvall
Thank you, ma'am, for your kind words.
And really, I am not superficially attributing some lesser inherent worth to my fellow bus passengers, based on their appearance, smell, etc. I'm sure some of them are excellent people, and some, not so much. The one who stands out to me was the 50-ish woman who sat across the aisle from me from Mobile to Nashville -- a long old pull, for sure. At one of the rest stops, she had clearly gotten next to some alcohol or other "substance." Thereafter, she was never silent for more than a couple of seconds. Part of the time, she was speaking quite loudly, and about every third word was a form of the F-bomb, unless she
really disapproved of something, in which case it was the mother-bomb. Between speeches, she tended to cackle in amusement over her last speech, and then would launch another. As far as I could tell, I may have been the only person on the bus who failed to be entertained by her. Most everyone else was very tickled indeed.
Nine hundred miles by bus: "Try it once, you're a philosopher. Do it twice, you're a pervert." I think I'm going to stop at the "philosopher" stage on this one.