What I Learned on the Bus Today
What I Learned on the Bus Today.
1. "No food or beverages on buses" doesn't apply as long as the six people eating them are having a picnic of Kentucky Fried Chicken and sodas spread out over several seats.
(Someone kindly removed a box of chicken so that I could sit down.)
2. Ex-cons can get in enough trouble by using a cell phone for their p.o.'s to have them sent back to prison to serve the remaining 44 months of their sentence.
3. A CONVICT WORD PROBLEM: Inmate B is due to get out of prison soon but he owes a couple of his buddies on the outside. What is the equitable way for him to be made to pay?
(a) Ex-con A was ripped off by Inmate B for $350 because the "used" X-Box he bought from Inmate B was resold by B to someone else before he ever took possession of it.
(b) On the other hand, Ex-con C just plain had $1500 taken from him by Inmate B.
(c) Therefore, proper business procedures require that Ex-con A gets his $350 and whatever physical punishment satisfaction he believes he has earned the right to inflict first,
(d) after which Ex-con C is green-lighted to go after his $1500 and proportionally more vicious punishment.
(e)"Weird" and "twisted" are the latest slang for characterizing severe physical punishment levels (or perhaps types.)
4. Ex-con C commented that a former business associate had died a while back. Ex-con A corrected him, and added some scientific and medical information on the case that C hadn't heard about. Yes, the former associate's body was dead but his head--his brain really--was still alive. It was frozen and they were going to clone it. They (A never explained who "they" were) they could do anything they wanted with it because clones have no rights, you know. But he'll only live three or four years, so they'll have to plan what they're going to do way ahead.
5. Late in the afternoon, I asked a bus driver when the Sunday schedules would be coming out. (These would be the first Sunday buses to run in Delaware in a couple of decades, essentially since before DART took over.)
The driver said some date or other in June (which I did not catch.)
Then he added, "Oh, there won't be a Sunday #6." (That's my bus.)
Well, so much for attending a different church.
6. Gee, I wonder why only the poor, those without licenses thanks to DUI's, a few students, retarded people on SSI, elderly on disability or limited pensions, and ex-cons ride the bus?
Doesn't anyone else want to be Green?
SherryT
p.s. Re #4 and the frozen head -- Is anyone else reminded of C S Lewis's "That Hideous Strength"?
1. "No food or beverages on buses" doesn't apply as long as the six people eating them are having a picnic of Kentucky Fried Chicken and sodas spread out over several seats.
(Someone kindly removed a box of chicken so that I could sit down.)
2. Ex-cons can get in enough trouble by using a cell phone for their p.o.'s to have them sent back to prison to serve the remaining 44 months of their sentence.
3. A CONVICT WORD PROBLEM: Inmate B is due to get out of prison soon but he owes a couple of his buddies on the outside. What is the equitable way for him to be made to pay?
(a) Ex-con A was ripped off by Inmate B for $350 because the "used" X-Box he bought from Inmate B was resold by B to someone else before he ever took possession of it.
(b) On the other hand, Ex-con C just plain had $1500 taken from him by Inmate B.
(c) Therefore, proper business procedures require that Ex-con A gets his $350 and whatever physical punishment satisfaction he believes he has earned the right to inflict first,
(d) after which Ex-con C is green-lighted to go after his $1500 and proportionally more vicious punishment.
(e)"Weird" and "twisted" are the latest slang for characterizing severe physical punishment levels (or perhaps types.)
4. Ex-con C commented that a former business associate had died a while back. Ex-con A corrected him, and added some scientific and medical information on the case that C hadn't heard about. Yes, the former associate's body was dead but his head--his brain really--was still alive. It was frozen and they were going to clone it. They (A never explained who "they" were) they could do anything they wanted with it because clones have no rights, you know. But he'll only live three or four years, so they'll have to plan what they're going to do way ahead.
5. Late in the afternoon, I asked a bus driver when the Sunday schedules would be coming out. (These would be the first Sunday buses to run in Delaware in a couple of decades, essentially since before DART took over.)
The driver said some date or other in June (which I did not catch.)
Then he added, "Oh, there won't be a Sunday #6." (That's my bus.)
Well, so much for attending a different church.
6. Gee, I wonder why only the poor, those without licenses thanks to DUI's, a few students, retarded people on SSI, elderly on disability or limited pensions, and ex-cons ride the bus?
Doesn't anyone else want to be Green?
SherryT
p.s. Re #4 and the frozen head -- Is anyone else reminded of C S Lewis's "That Hideous Strength"?