The One With the Buses
Current Mood: Good!
Current Music: KSBJ
Hey, everybody! Not much is going on lately...not that that is anything unusual. I am sitting here preparing to head off for my Astronomy lab, which I detest. I do not want to go back over there. This morning, when I was walking across the street to the school, I noticed a police officer on the sidewalk across from me with a long curly cord plugged into the big silver box that controls the traffic signals. I thought that he must be running diagnostics or something. It didn't occur to me that signal maintenance is not really in the job description of Waco finest....until fifteen minutes had passed and I was still on the wrong side of the street.
That's right, that curly cord was connected to a big red button labelled "ANNOY". He was holding the signal. For fifteen minutes while I watched fifty-six buses full of kids making rude gestures creep by. FIFTY-SIX!!!! That's insane? Shouldn't those kids be in school. I could understand if it was two buses. Or maybe three. And they were all from the same school, but NOOOOO! These buses came from all over. Seriously, it was like the pied piper joined the twenty-first century and adopted the mask of the pied bus driver. IRRITATION! Anyway, so now I am all schooled out. Which is too bad, because now I have to go deal with Greek-Geek. Last week he forgot how to say black hole.
I'm not kidding....Black Hole.
HE'S AN ASTRONOMER!!! Wow, this sounds bitter. I am not bitter, just not in the mood to go back to school today. Hahaha. I just realized that I wrote that I am in a good mood at the top. Well, I WAS! I still am, just feeling a little cynical. I need to put a cynical-meter on this page somewhere. A cynicometer. Just so you know what to expect. Maybe next day.
Current Music: KSBJ
Hey, everybody! Not much is going on lately...not that that is anything unusual. I am sitting here preparing to head off for my Astronomy lab, which I detest. I do not want to go back over there. This morning, when I was walking across the street to the school, I noticed a police officer on the sidewalk across from me with a long curly cord plugged into the big silver box that controls the traffic signals. I thought that he must be running diagnostics or something. It didn't occur to me that signal maintenance is not really in the job description of Waco finest....until fifteen minutes had passed and I was still on the wrong side of the street.
That's right, that curly cord was connected to a big red button labelled "ANNOY". He was holding the signal. For fifteen minutes while I watched fifty-six buses full of kids making rude gestures creep by. FIFTY-SIX!!!! That's insane? Shouldn't those kids be in school. I could understand if it was two buses. Or maybe three. And they were all from the same school, but NOOOOO! These buses came from all over. Seriously, it was like the pied piper joined the twenty-first century and adopted the mask of the pied bus driver. IRRITATION! Anyway, so now I am all schooled out. Which is too bad, because now I have to go deal with Greek-Geek. Last week he forgot how to say black hole.
I'm not kidding....Black Hole.
HE'S AN ASTRONOMER!!! Wow, this sounds bitter. I am not bitter, just not in the mood to go back to school today. Hahaha. I just realized that I wrote that I am in a good mood at the top. Well, I WAS! I still am, just feeling a little cynical. I need to put a cynical-meter on this page somewhere. A cynicometer. Just so you know what to expect. Maybe next day.
1 Comments:
Okay wait a second, I'm confused. So a police officer is preventing the traffic light from changing so you can cross the street? And meanwhile 56 busses are passing by? Was it a prank, and was he a real officer? Maybe that totally went over my head. Regardless, I would have lost patience and dodged the busses. 15 minutes, bah.
By Anonymous, At 1:14 PM, November 01, 2005
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home