The bus driver put the ramp down for a particularly friendly man in a wheelchair. Actually, many people were friendly today, a girl even smiled at me from her car while she was driving past me.
The man smiled, asked the bus driver how he was doing, and gave the man information on how his chair tied correctly to the bus mount. This is a task that every driver has whenever someone in a wheelchair boards.
Many bus drivers, particularly those who are portly, struggle with the bending over they must do to attach these chairs. For anyone, it is a strenuous task, it seems. For our driver today, it was particularly arduous as the bus aisle was not wide enough accommodate him. In order to reach where he had to, his body positioned itself so his ass was right in the face of the woman sitting next to me. Actually, he rammed his ass into her, and she rammed herself into me as she tried to avoid as much contact as she could.
As she did this she looked me straight in the eyes, sort of shocked. I could not stop laughing. Once he was through, she joked about it, and the people sitting next to us were laughing, too.
I said, "You've got to make light of things." After all. . it was disgusting and rude. . or perhaps just sad. She could rightly have been offended. She said, "Absolutely. Life would be miserable if you didn't. That's how you get those grumpy old people." I said. "Yeah. It all adds up."
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