Sweet-looking little old lady on the bus, to no one in particular: “Doris, for what you’ve done, I hope the devil has his pitchfork 16 inches up your pussy!”
Erm, sweet-looking little old lady with Tourettes, evidently.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Keli
February 27th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
OH. MY. GOD. What did you do?
I would croak. This is a topic close to my heart as a fellow south-end bus rider.
Ariel
February 27th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
I did what any self-respecting passive Seattleite would do: I put on my headphones! Then I started thinking I was missing something, so I took them off. But she’d calmed down a bit and only said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah: up your nose with a rubber hose. Pshaw!”
I am not making any of this up.
kerri
March 14th, 2006 at 6:44 am
SO awesome. I love airports for the eavesdropping. People seem to have no shame, or no social coherence, when it comes to topics discussed in airports. The same principle would apparently apply to certain bus passengers as well.
Also: Hello! I reside in the Eastern, more arid and desert-inspired and with less green part of Washington! otherwise known as “Spokane.”