.The first thing you do if you have technojoy is get the instructions and throw them out the window!

[apocalypsos]

I have achieved bus ticket! Also, I have achieved new minidisc player, which I immediately pried from the plastic and christened Bob. This shouldn't be much of a shock considering I name everything I own Bob except for my car, but whatever. It also came with a very cool and pretty gold minidisc and some paperwork, but to find out what I did with the paperwork, feel free to refer to the Eddie Izzard quote in the subject.

Then after that, I went to see Hellboy. I'm in love with Ron Perlman. I just felt I needed to share that.

So then I hop on the Metro to go over to King Street to meet my bus. I get there and promptly am confronted at my bus stop with two full benches.

Now, it's not like I saw two benches full of people, mind you. I saw one bench with three people on it and another bench with one guy sitting on it. The thing was, he also had a bag of shopping, a heavy winter coat lying next to him (it's sixty degrees here today, by the way), and in the spaces left on either side of him, he kept reading newspapers then putting them on the other side when he was finished. Bench Asshat didn't even flinch when more people showed up looking for seats, either.

So the bus before mine shows up, and everybody leaves, so now I'm alone at the bus stop with Bob the new minidisc player on full-blast. In the next few minutes, a very nice deaf couple sit down next to me, and not long after that came the Mommies. The Mommies were three very self-involved women with six small children, all under the age of five, between them.

Mommy #1 had a baby and a two year old, I'd guess. She talked non-stop to the mommy next to her while her two-year-old wandered two bus-stops away. I'd say that maybe it was because she was distracted taking care of the baby, but the baby was in a stroller being pushed wildly around the bus stop at breakneck speeds by another child, so that was a big no.

Mommy #2 spent the entire time she was at the bus stop on a cell-phone, which is why she completely missed the fact that her son was picking up pieces of a broken bottle and smashing them against the ground and throwing them at anything that sat still long enough.

That child must have been taking his cues from the child of Mommy #3, a little boy who dislodged one of the bricks from the walkway and then proceeded to wander aimlessly looking for something (or possibly someone to throw it at) before finally pitching it into the nearest garbage can. The poor deaf guy had to go and retrieve it, while the deaf girl and I exchanged annoyed eye-rolls. I imagine Mommy #3 might have given a damn about what her son was doing if she weren't so busy being an obtrusive asshat. The deaf couple was sitting at one end of our bench, while I sat at the other. It wasn't like there wasn't enough room for another person, but it sure as hell didn't require her to whack both me and the deaf girl over to make room. She very nearly knocked me off the damn bench. *grrrs*

Then the bus showed up and I got to ride home with them. Urgh. And just to offset their ability to annoy the piss off me by not sitting still for more than three seconds at a time, there was a cute little girl who just casually sat across from them all and kept flashing me these looks like, "We're not all that bothersome, I swear."

And in fuck-the-government news today, why have an election when you can blow up a federal building instead? (Also, the Dubya version of "The United States of Whatever" makes me giggle.)

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[cyprinella]

Only vaguely related question: Can I pick your brain about how best to use the Metro? I'm goign to be using it regularly to get to work now, and I've only ever really done the touristy jaunts. I've got the basics of rail, but the buses? Those are a whole new crazy thing to me.

[dreamt.livejournal.com]

Ron Perlman is the hotzor <3