I sit down about three feet from a guy on the bus. Older guy, looks to be in his thirties. I've barely put my stuff down when he asks me, out of the blue, what I study at school.
Well, alright. I AM a college student and I'm carrying a bag with my college logo, and I did just get on the bus in front of said college. I tell him I'm studying medicine, or at least working on it.
We have a somewhat recursive conversation about doctors that he finds funnier than I do. All the while, I'm trying to put in my earbuds in a clear indication of "alright, this conversation's done, please let me go the next forty minutes in peace." Might be a little cold, but I don't like talking to strangers very often. It makes me rather uncomfortable.
INSTEAD, I'm roped into some "conversation" (closer to a one-sided rant) about pharmaceutical company conspiracies, something about scientists making superhumans like the offspring of angels and gods in Greek mythology, aaand some young-earth creationist thing about God making the land after the flood of Noah's ark fame. Apparently, he does "research."
Eventually I get my earbuds in and he shuts up for a bit. I stare excessively hard at my phone for fifteen minutes and don't take out my book for about thirty minutes in case he tries to make conversation about said book (and I really don't want to know if he has conspiracy theories about King Leopold II and the Congo).
As I'm getting ready to get off the bus, he says something I don't understand because my music's going. He finally taps me on the shoulder and asks me how old I am. Slightly concerned, I reply that I'm eighteen. He pauses a bit, then says something along the lines of "Ha, well, if you ever figure out how to reverse age, let me know."
> get home
> burn coat
> buy knife and pepper spray
> find alternate bus route
I feel the godawful for not rewatching someone so awesome.
Well. moderately awesome. a measure of awesome? several measures of awesome! too much awesome. fairly awesome? fair amount of awesome. good amount of awesome. Yes! that one! i feel guilty for not rewatching someone who is a good amount of awesome! Consider myself wracked with a good amount of guilt. er, bad amount. FAIR amount. dammit.
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