This morning, as i was walking the two blocks through the neighborhood to the bus stop I saw both the OV and the 16A (the only two buses i can take, and the only two on this route) stop... with the 16A right on the OVs tail... i am not kidding when i say that the 16A looked like it was going to collide with the OV. Stupid buses being early.
The upside to riding the bus, i have found, is that i am able to listen to the iPod and get some reading done. This morning it was one of my all-time favorite authors, Mr. Bill Bryson.
The book is titled "In A Sunburned Country" and chronicles his travels in Australia. Before reading this boook the first time, i had never given Australia much thought. It is now a goal of mine to get there. He is so informative, while observing the greatest idiosynchracies of anywhere he travels, and he certainly found a wealth of material in the Outback.
This morning, i was reading one of my favorite parts of the book, where Bryson describes Canberra (Can-bra) and i had to stop a few times and resettle myself to keep from laughing outloud on the bus, and risk looking like the people that i tend to avoid in the street... you know the ones... standing facing a wall chuckling to themselves and giving passers-by sideways looks that give them more than the typical "personal bubble"...
Anyway... there are upsides to riding the bus... it would seem.
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