Episode 2 Date Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 12:32 AM PST Topic Tales From the Ick! I take the bus to and from work every day. I often think about how I should write a book journaling my bus adventures. The worst is when you get stuck sitting in the very back of a 15 or an 18 bus with a handful of smelly creatures. All I want to do is get home. I?m exhausted and the air on this bus is more polluted than the air out on the street. Perhaps if I was more into new-agey crap I could do some of that projection stuff and not really BE here. That works at the dentist, but not when you?re choking down bad conversation and ripe bus odors. Three, or was it four guys are chit-chatting. Drunk already. One sits too close to me, balance a problem for him as the bus starts and stops, starts and stops all along first avenue. Take in little breaths. Crinkle nose. The teetering fellow next to me stands up before the bus makes it to his stop, and he leans down and mutters something. Is he talking to me? Yep ? he told me that I ?smell nice.? I think he asked me if I was on my period or something equally perverse, but at that moment, the dentist trick worked, and I was no longer ?there.? This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15