Today two weird things happened to me. The first was early
this morning, as I was preparing to leave the house, I could not find my car
key. I always put it in my coat pocket, but maybe it had fallen out on the
couch, where I had left my coat. I didn’t see it on the couch but figured I
could just use my spare key. So I tore apart the house looking for the spare
key, until suddenly noticing something on the couch – my regular car key, right where I had first looked for it! How
had I not seen it before? I still have no idea where the spare key went, but
after all that I was only fifteen minutes late for work, and it didn’t even
matter because I had already worked late earlier this week, and nobody was
there to see my late entrance.
The second weird thing was when I had to run two errands
that required taking the free bus that drives all around campus. (It was too
cold out to walk that far.) The bus comes by every five minutes during class
times, so I easily caught one and successfully ran the errands. I caught the
bus back, but it stopped at the Union and the bus driver ran off, saying, “Don’t
be mad at me!” I assumed he just had to powder his nose, but suddenly he fell.
I thought he had slipped on the ice, but he did a somersault and I realized he
hadn’t fallen by accident but had leapt into the somersault. That was kind of
crazy! This bus driver has quite a few years on me, and I can’t see myself
leaping into a somersault on the cold, hard ground! When I told the story to a
couple of coworkers, one said, “Oh yeah, that bus driver always does something
crazy when he gets off the bus.” So if you ever find yourself on the 80 bus,
and the driver is a lean gentleman of around sixty, watch for his bus-departing
hijinks.
Famous Hat
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