A rugged middle-aged gentleman turns to me and says abruptly, “I’m from Arkansas!”
“Good!” I respond, not sure what is expected of me.
“I’ve been driving my car for 20 years in my own state and everything was fine. Then I come into this mess of a state and have my license taken away because I didn’t have a seat belt on. What do they care if I have my seat belt on? It’s mine to do what I want with it, right? And now I have to go to court to get the license back.”
“I wish you the best of luck,” I say.
The bus approaches the campus.
“So what’s this place here?” the man from Arkansas asks.
“It’s a university,” I explain.
The man looks puzzled.
“A what? Is that like a college or something?”
“Yes, it’s like a college,” the bus driver chimes in. “By the way, young lady, it seems to be taking you longer than you hoped, isn’t it?”
“Excuse me?” I ask.
“Well, I’ve been driving you to college for a few years now. When will you be graduating?”
“I’m not a student,” I say. “I’m a professor.”
“I did had a seat belt on,” the Arkansas man says after a pause. “It was one of those old ones that you have across the lap, so the police didn’t notice it.”
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All this on a bus, you know. 😉
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Funny. Professors don’t take the bus very often, so I understand why the bus driver said that.
Personally, I have no problem at all with those who don’t use seatbelts. This is his problem.
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Off -topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QikSorPak6M
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Save that bit of dialogue for when you write a novel.
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Thank you, I really appreciate the compliment.
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I don’t know about Ukrainian or Spanish, but in English it sounds like something out of Samuel Beckett.
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I’m sure this would make a great film scene.
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Man, I totally miss being on that bus every day.
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