So, I've been taking the bus for years on and off between NY and NJ. Whether it has been working downtown (the academy bus = long waits, long commutes, less mutants) or midtown (NJ Transit = less long waits, mixed length commutes, more mutants), I thought I had seen it all. But that's what I love about living/working in NY/NJ, you constantly get proven wrong. Take yesterday, when after the bus pulled into the Old Bridge Park and Ride (south side, I was heading home), a man frantically runs up from the back of the bus and asks the driver to wait. Why? Because he lost his shoes. As in, the ones he was wearing. On his feet. Needless to say, this isn't normal. Luckily a quick search by the man produced the shoes that moved a few rows away. After he got off, we all had a good laugh, at his expense. That's what we do in NY/NJ. The driver had a theory that the shoes were trying to escape based on the smell of the man's feet. I suppose that was a fair theory.
Ah, life in the big city and suburbs..
