Why I hate Rodney Square in particular and Bus stops in General
By Rose A. Williamson
I take the bus when ever I go to campus because I do not have a driver’s license. This is partly because I used to get dizzy a lot and partly because of other things. But the why is not important. The fact is unless I can walk some where or bum a ride, I take the bus.
Now I’ve been enrolled in College since January and until May was going to a Campus that is closer to my house. How ever the only branch of this College that give Math005 is in Wilmington, which is over an hour via bus ride.
The distance means that to get to a class at 9:00 I have to get up at 6:30. I have time to find breakfast and get ready, before I walk over the mile to the bus stop with my heavy bags. I then inevitably wait ten minuets to half an hour because the bus is late. (Aside from that one time I showed up a minute late and the bus came early.)
So I bring a book and thermos of iced coffee. At the first bus stop of the day which is in front of a police station I don’t usually get harassed, because most people don’t; screw with strangers in front of the Police department.
So I get on the bus and inevitably by the time I get to Wilmington am squished between some fat bastard and the wall, next a stinky person, some one mentally unstable or generally shifty looking, or something trying to look down my shirt. (Seriously have you never seen fucking boobs? I’m not even wearing sexy shirts.)
So eventually I manage to get off in front of Campus unless the Bus driver is being a complete asshole and won’t stop (I’m looking at you balding, 400 pound short, black man who drives the 33 and always hides his name tag. Seriously you deserve a whole post about how much of an asshole who are. )
Now see wile the busses will stop in front of Campus when you ring to get off, if you try to flag them down the driver ignores you. And the times for the bus stop in front of the Campus aren’t posted nor are they remotely accurate to what is on the website or bus schedule. So I walk like ten blocks to Rodney square.
Now Rodney square is not mere bus stop. It’s fucking square of bus stops with statues benches and it’s very own hobos. Rodney square always has a ten degrees difference from the surrounding area. In Summer it’s hotter in winter it’s colder. The summer makes sense with the cars and the buses and the people but the Winter shouldn’t even be possibly.
Now at any given time there are fifty to a hundred people in this place. There is always some one smoking pot. I think the cops don’t even bother. There are always obnoxious fights and epithets of some kind being hurled. I mange to stay uninvolved.
But that’s not the worst part. The worst part even worse than waiting for an hour because your bus is late when the terminal is five minuets away, worse then the smell of sweaty un-bathed hobos are the creepers. You know what I mean if you’re female. Those guys that troll the bus stop trying to get a girlfriend or a one night stand or on some occasions try to pay you for sex.
You’ll be sitting there reading a book with your I-pod in and your sunglasses on, the universal signal for, dude don’t fucking talk to me. Some guy , generally ten to fifteen years older then you will be sizing you up from the other side of the bus stop. If he is with friends there will be whispering and some one chanting “Go for it”, or what ever the slang equivalent of their peer group is.
So they guy walks over and sits down then asks if he can sit down. You shrug, or say I don ;t care, or generally try to show lack of interest. The guy will ask you what you’re reading and generally interrupt your shit trying to start a conversation, hinting that he’s single looking for a girl, and has money or a car.
You’ll try to act really interested in your book so the random stranger who may or may not have given you his name is this point gets you want to read your book and have random people on the street attempting to hit you up/
Eventually it gets to the point where the guy asks you if you’ve got a husband (If you have rings as jewelry like I do) Or if you have a boyfriend or if you’re just looking for a good time.
When you inevitably say no, or don’t answer they go on a long tangent about how a pretty girl like you should have a man to take care of her, and keep her company. Because apparently none of us like being single. Or are gay, or aren’t interested in random bus stop guys.
So when you eventually try to say politely that you aren’t interested one of these things happens :
The guys gets even more disparate, listing of reasons he should be desirable. This is pathetic.
He accuses you of being a bitch or arrogant because your think you’re too good for random bus stops.
The guy asks if it’s “Because he’s black”. Now see this really pisses me off. The fact that you’re black doesn’t have anything to do with this. The fact that you’re some random guy who can’t wear clothes in the proper size, care a conversation with a woman with out coming off like you want to fuck her, that you’re staring at my chest, sitting uncomfortable close to me, and generally being an annoying creepy fuck, is why. it’s not because you’re back IT’S BECAUSE YOU’RE STUPID! And then what, you try to bring race into it for what reason? To guilt me into reciprocating. To boast your ego and assure it must be a problem with me being shallow and petty and not some legitimate reason I don’t want to go home with you.
Almost as annoying as the above and infinitely more creepy is the guy who acts like you didn’t just say no who keeps flirting with you and follows you to your bus, on the rare occasion getting on and trying to sit next to you. Personally I find a good solution is to talk about you’re girlfriend or boyfriend sic kingly sweetly to no end, combined with subtly showing a can of mace, and going on about how jealous and stuff they get. Warning if you mention a girlfriend and you don’t have shaved head and hairy legs they might doubt you’re gay and try to tell you you’re just confused.
The guy accepts that you are not interested and makes some excuse to leave, going back to where ever he was.
He sits awkwardly next to you staring and your chest butt or what ever part of you is conventionally attractive.
And finally here are a list of annoying things that are often said to me.
“Hey are you Irish?” That is a dumb and unnecessary question if you live in this country and can’t guess by looking at me you need an intelligence test. I have red hair a stocky build, pale skin, freckles and I’m short. That’s like if I walked up to a man with olive skin black hair dark eyes speaking Italian and asked him if he was Italian. This is not a fucking conversation starter. This makes you look retarded.
“Are you naturally that pale?” What the fuck? No I was dropped into a vile of bleach as child and never recovered.
“You’re sexy I like your boobs” Go die in a fire right now. Seriously go, weed your self out of the gene pool.
“Have you found Jesus” Why is he lost?
“Have you been saved?” Yes I found a saved game crystal when I left class and have not made significant enough progress to need to save again but thank you.
“Are you a vampire?” Yes.
AH! Pentacle You must be Satanist” …You have no concept of religion out side your own your you would realize “The devil” Is only a figure in the Abramic Religion though Zoroastrianism has similar figure. Wicca how ever, does not. The Satanist symbol is an inverted pentacle, and probably aren’t what you think they are. Good job you have betrayed the depth of your stupidity and lack of social skills. Have a nice day, Dick.
Please use decent manners and common sense wile riding public transportation, thank you.
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