Comments on: Special Guest Post From Author, Eric Nuzum

By: Golden Silence

Golden Silence — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:50:55 +0000

LOL Yep, I

By: Megs

Megs — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:24:45 +0000

I LOVE the bus. Actually, I have a love-hate relationship with the bus, but it’s one of those things like you can criticize your family, but if an outsider does it, watch out. Same way with the bus–I’ll complain about bus-related items, but I feel the need to defend the bus’s honor if a Metro-rider or car-driver says anything negative.

More often than not there’s something wacky that goes on during my bus route. There’s the man who had a massive, massive pickle jar and ate the giant pickles during a very crowded rush hour 30 route bus ride, then drank the juice, but was drunk and/or crazy and spilled it on everyone around him. There’s the man who gave us all the play by play of a Redskins game one Sunday afternoon from his radio–even though no one on the bus was interested. There are the drivers who are driving the route for the first time, and they ask the passengers where they are supposed to go–and everyone happily obliges. I traded novels with a fellow passenger one time because we both had just finished our paperbacks. For some reason, I feel like that would never happen on the Metro.

It’s just a more personal experience, for me, than Metro. I feel like I’ve gotten to know this city and its residents much better since I started taking it 4 years ago. And probably somewhere, someone is talking about me as a bus-riding weirdo, because I sometimes make cookies & give them to my drivers to thank them.

By: 14thandYou

14thandYou — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:00:56 +0000

“My theory (and I am a bus advocate- I think the subway is smelly and unnatural)”

LOL Yep, I’ve never gotten on a Metrobus that smelled the least bit like moldy clothes and urine. When I think of clean, I think Metrobus.

And unnatural? Gosh, let’s all just go back to the horse and buggy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:12:29 +0000

I didn’t mean oddballs in a bad way, necessarily. Just that it’s way more likely, even in DC, for a person to have a car than to not have one, because there’s this perception that you need a car to function in American society. So if you don’t have a car you’re an anomoly, and probably more interesting (coule be either in a good or bad way).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:34:00 +0000

Personally I have had more “experiences” on the metro than the bus. I think it is a matter of frequency (I take the metro more than the bus) and the when you are traveling. Most of my crazy stories occurred from 10 pm – 3 am.

By: Nita

Nita — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:10:09 +0000

“people without cars are the oddballs who don

By: Golden Silence

Golden Silence — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:10:16 +0000

There

By: bogfrog

bogfrog — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:42:42 +0000

a classic!

For examples of bus stigmata, ask Frieda Kahlo about those…

And, buses are more subsidized than metro in DC because of the different populations they serve

By: Fonzy

Fonzy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:42:37 +0000

Ah, the bus… the better half of my commute. It’s a much more personal experience than the subway. Always in your face.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:34:12 +0000

If by character you mean mental health issues – you got that right!