Go to the Store on Route 64

Route 64 is my new favorite bus route. On Sunday, I wanted to make my way to Boxstoreland, so I took the only route I knew: trolley to broadstreet line, then transfer to the 79 bus. But while I was making the perilous pedestrian crossing from Ikeaworld to ACMooreville, I noticed a 64 bus rolling through one of the massive parking lot. Could it be the very same 64 that runs only a block away from my apartment? Yes indeed, it is.

As I waited and waited for my 64 bus in bus swelter, er shelter, between the Walmart and the Home Depot, I thought, my goodness, if I had a car, I'd never know this little microcosm of the city existed. I would have never learned how the waiting passengers knew to turn shopping carts on their sides and use them as benches. I would have never wondered why so many insisted on sitting in the official shelter when it was at least 15 degrees cooler across the driveway. I would have been at home in ignorant comfort.

Usually, a bus ride that runs from a Walmart through a number of "transitional" neighborhoods, would make for some great eavesdropping. But the best thing I heard on this ride was a cursing lady telling someone that if she came home to find the laundry not done, then someone would be out on the street. It's a good thing I never lived with her, or I'd be homeless by now.

Also, there's a new candy that comes in a plastic container that you can clip to your wasteband. It has sparkles right there in the candy!

(see, I told you I'd be writing more stuff.)