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I love the city bus here – it’s agressive, it starts and stops and throws people about and fights the traffic because unlike most cities back home there apparently is no law here about giving right of way to the city bus. The driver is constantly muscling aside all these ridiculously tiny cars and a wasp’s nest worth of scooters while breezing past people practically standing in the street. It’s like no bus I’ve ever ridden. It’s a thrill. I swear, I kid you negative, I saw the bus driver use a rolled-up newspaper to hit a scooter kid on the head today. I am not lying one bit.
There was something terribly fantastically incongruous about riding the 34 tonight while listening to the album ‘Nothing’s Shocking’ by Jane’s Addiction. For me that album belongs in such a specific place and time and it’s not on a bus in Spain where the driver is daydreaming about being the next world-famous toreador and dodging oncoming traffic like a constant stream of angry bulls.
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Can you capture the bus/tiny car/scooter image for us?
Comment by DadO July 5, 2007 @ 7:44 amHA! This might be my favorite story!
Comment by kyla July 5, 2007 @ 10:08 amThat’s a funny image..
*bop* “MOVE IT” (in Spainish though…)