HOLY MOTHERFUCK ITS BEEN A YEAR
Spring break '08. My friends are all headed to such awesome, exotic, and warm locales such as Acapulco, Florida, and Warmfuckingplace, USA.
I take a Greyhound Bus to OKC.
Why a bus? I now ask myself the same question.
As I wait at the bus station, a sense of dread looms over me as the minutes go by. 10 minutes late, 20 minutes late, 30 minutes late. Finally the bus shows up about 45 minutes late. This irritates me, as I'm already due to arrive at 2:30 in the fucking morning. This is killing any chance of drinking I may have.
I get on the bus and me and three others are presented with quite the perplexing paradox. The bus is full. Not like just someone in every seat, but full to the point where I have to fucking stand on the bus for forty-fucking-five minutes. I did not fucking pay to stand on some shitty ass bus full of people who smell like they haven't showered since the year I was born.
This old motherfucker is driving, and I guess in retard bus driver training school because his even older and more bitter trainer is sitting behind him. This asshole is taking up three seats, one with his old wrinkled ass, one with some papers, and one with a briefcase. He refuses to let any of the four people standing up to take his precious spots. I had mace. This is the first time I wanted to use it. Even after people yelled at him to move his "crusty ass" he refused.
Thus began my journey.
I stood up on the bus for forty five minutes, and arrived in DSM. After a layover, I got back on the bus with an actual seat. As the bus filled up, I noticed something.
You know how whenever you are in a group of seats in a public area? Say a movie theater, a bus, an airplane, a concert, whatever. There are always one or two people that you just do NOT want to sit by you. The bus is full of these people. Basically you're fucked either way. Will you get the old wannabe hippie who hasn't used deodorant since 50? Will you get the ex-convict child molester? Will you get the giant fatass hick with the gross, scraggly black ponytail whose sweatstained red walmart tshirt barely covers his gigantic fatass stomach?
Guess which one I got.
So Captain Whitetrash sits next to me. I immediately notice the sour smell of old celery emanating from this mountain of Walmart supported flesh. I get pissed.
So approximately 10 minutes from a stop in MO, our bus starts to make some slightly odd noises. Our bus ran out of gas. I sit there next to Sgt. Ponytail unable to comprehend this situation. I figured that checking the fucking gas gauge was pretty much lesson one on how to drive a fucking bus. And apparently the older fucker next to him was unable to teach this lesson either. We stop on the side of the road and the drivers basically run off the bus, not saying a word to anyone. We sit there, in the unairconditioned bus and wait for gas. For an hour and a half. Celery smell turns to old ball sweat in gym shorts smell. I have a thing about smell, so pretty much the bus turned into hell at this point, complete with my own sweaty demon from Arkansas.
After the bus gets moving again and I'm staring blankly out at boring ass midwestern US of A, Mr. Fatfuck falls asleep and starts snoring. He then proceeds to sleep on my shoulder. This mass of sweaty ball fat is already crossing my seat line of demarcation and I'm already pressed against the window, so I push him off. He then pushes me like it was all my fault he passed out from lack of fry grease and gives me a dirty look. I pray for a bus crash.
Waiting in line for a changeover in the Kansas City terminal, I get in line midway through because I was a reboarder. Some kid with a rubix cube insists that I pay attention to his cubings. Apparently I wandered in front of some wannabe thug, who says to me, "Can ah AXE you a question?"
"What?" I reply, not really understanding what the fuck this new sack of shit is saying.
"AH SAID, can ah AXE you a question?"
"Sure."
"Do you fink ahm standin ere fo mah heaof?" He slurs.
"WHAT?" I say, again not knowing what the fuck he is saying.
"AH SAID DO you fink ahm standin ere fo mah heaof?"
"Um, no?"
"Den whay are you ahead ov me?"
I'm just tired and pissed waiting for this guy to get an inch closer so I can mace him. I finally make a hugely sarcastic bow and say "Go riiiight ahead."
This guy doesn't know how the bus system works, because I get my seat anyway. He gets eventually kicked out of three seats by white people who were here before him, which I'm sure pissed him off and made me happy.
Annyoing rubix cube kid sits next to me and asks me such intellectual music questions such as "Have you heard of the song Carry on my Wayward Son?" and seems genuinely impressed that I know the songs he heard on Guitar Hero. He then throws me a curveball and says, "Here, listen to this. I bet you haven't heard this!" He puts on Foo Fighters. I sigh and put my own headphones on and pretend to go to sleep.
Eventually I arrive in OKC, an hour and a half late, and sober. The week was fun.
Then I had to get on the bus again.
This time it wasn't as bad, as I was lucky and smart enough to trick people into leaving me alone. Always sit on the outside near the aisle, always put your shit in the other seat, and always pretend that you're asleep. People don't bother to ask you to move. And frown a lot.
The only problem I had on the ride back was these two fatass people in front of me. First it started with a kiss on the lips. Then machine gun kissing on the lips. Soon enough these people are tounge deep in each others fat greaseportals for an hour and a half. All I can hear over my music is these fucking people making out. It's only like 10 30 at this point. Everyone is awake. But these fucking idiot McDonaldssacks can't keep their tongues out of each other for four fucking hours.
God Damn.
I finally get back to Ames. My brother is not in Ames. I call the cab company and they do not take plastic. I smoke a cigarette, annoyed, and start to walk towards home which is five miles away. I walk along, cold as fuck and praying some killer isn't going to flay me alive because I'm too fucking exhausted to do anything about it, and finally just call the cab company to drive me to an ATM.
14 hours after getting on the bus again, I get home and crash in someone else's room because my door is locked. Fucking perfect.
I fucking hate the bus.
