Bus Stop Rules

2012-01-16T01:55:00.000-08:00

So I needed to go Safeway yesterday to buy more food. Since I don't own a car and just felt like going on my own, I took the bus. Yeah, the store is around 1.5 miles from where I live, but I didn't feel like walking to it, and I get a bus pass for the semester for $20 as a student, so I might as well use it.

Normally, the stop I go to for a trip to Safeway has no one at it, or there's another student if anyone is there. I checked the time that the bus would come on my phone, and it was in 18 minutes, so I decided to just listen to music, the album Strangers by System Syn to be exact. I highly recommend this album to anyone. But back to the story: I was alone at the bus stop, until some idiot walked up. Keep in mind that I hate overhearing people when I'm listening to music, so I always use acoustic noise cancelling headphones. If you try to talk to me, I won't know unless I see your mouth moving. There's two things I cannot stand: overhearing the conversations of idiots and having a random person I've never met before act like I'm their best buddy. Guess which one is about to happen. Hint: both.

So this guy walks up and sits right next to me on the bench, a bench that can hold 3 people. No, he couldn't possibly sit at the other end, he had to sit next to me. Then he starts to talk to me. At this point, I'm thinking he just wants to know when the bus is coming, so I take out one ear bud. Nope, he wants to get to know me basically. What's my major, am I student here, how long have I lived here, etc. Not to be rude, I answer him, and then he asks a question I flat out hate: what can you do with your major? Why do I hate this question? Simple: THE ANSWER IS BASICALLY IN THE MAJORS NAME! It deals with international issues, one region specifically, so government jobs (NSA, State Department, FBI, CIA, etc.) are a high priority with it. Then he says, and I quote, "My sister is getting a degree in international relations. I don't know what she can do with it." Are you kidding me!? You're an idiot if you can't figure out what she can do with it!

So let me lay down some rules for a bus stop: 1) don't talk to someone with their headphones in 2) don't sit right next to a person if you can avoid it. And with that, I've started an explanation on why I'm an introvert.

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