Live from Minnesota: Planes, Trains, and Buses Part 2
(continued from previous posts) ...So I boarded my bus and sat down. It was warm. It was noisy. It would be my home for the next hour. I was happy.
Being your average American, I've never rode mass transit before so I was trying to learn what was going on. The bus driver would announce a stop and if someone wanted it they'd pull the cord to signal him to actually stop, otherwise he'd keep going. I knew from my trip planner that I had about an hour's ride ahead of me so I wasn't worried. Then it started. The driver would announce stops but I had no freakin' idea what the hell he was saying. He spoke horrible, broken, Asian-accented, English. Great. Well at least my stop sounded unique "Opportunity Partners" would be hard to mistake for "6th Ave".
At one of the stops a rather talkative long-grey-haired-dude (which he will forever be known as to me) sat next to me. He began quizzing me on my dell laptop case. Where did I get such a case? he wondered. Probably online, I said, it's actually my work laptop case so I don't know. Can you buy things online with money orders? He inquired. Probably not everywhere I said.
"I'm still trying to figure out that internet thing." he said "I've got a friend who's gonna teach me, but he's in England. God knows when he's getting back."
At this point this conversation was officially over for me. I am not about to explain something as abstract to the internet to a random long-grey-haired-dude who doesn't seem to be totally with it. "Yeah, there's a whole other world on the net." I said and immediately tuned him out. He went on to talk about God knows what, but all I heard was "hecajuc av" from our bus driver which I had no idea what it was supposed to mean.
I'm going to take a break and walk around downtown Hopkins, maybe snap some pics. When I get back you'll get to hear about how I met up with a small army of mentally handicapped individuals and finally broke through the language barrier. Stay tuned.
Being your average American, I've never rode mass transit before so I was trying to learn what was going on. The bus driver would announce a stop and if someone wanted it they'd pull the cord to signal him to actually stop, otherwise he'd keep going. I knew from my trip planner that I had about an hour's ride ahead of me so I wasn't worried. Then it started. The driver would announce stops but I had no freakin' idea what the hell he was saying. He spoke horrible, broken, Asian-accented, English. Great. Well at least my stop sounded unique "Opportunity Partners" would be hard to mistake for "6th Ave".
At one of the stops a rather talkative long-grey-haired-dude (which he will forever be known as to me) sat next to me. He began quizzing me on my dell laptop case. Where did I get such a case? he wondered. Probably online, I said, it's actually my work laptop case so I don't know. Can you buy things online with money orders? He inquired. Probably not everywhere I said.
"I'm still trying to figure out that internet thing." he said "I've got a friend who's gonna teach me, but he's in England. God knows when he's getting back."
At this point this conversation was officially over for me. I am not about to explain something as abstract to the internet to a random long-grey-haired-dude who doesn't seem to be totally with it. "Yeah, there's a whole other world on the net." I said and immediately tuned him out. He went on to talk about God knows what, but all I heard was "hecajuc av" from our bus driver which I had no idea what it was supposed to mean.
I'm going to take a break and walk around downtown Hopkins, maybe snap some pics. When I get back you'll get to hear about how I met up with a small army of mentally handicapped individuals and finally broke through the language barrier. Stay tuned.
Labels: long grey haired dude, mass transit, minnesota, trip
posted by Justin at
12:22 PM
1 Comments:
I think that you should have taken the time to explain the internet to him. How cruel can you really be? Everyone deserves to know that there is a network of underground robots just waiting to take over our minds and install metal legs at a moment’s notice. That is, only when they brainwash all people VIA the internet.
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