Columbus Day? Indigenous People's Day? Regardless of what you want to call it, this October holiday turns out to be an...interesting time to take the bus.
I was riding down Thayer Street and a guy making a turn cut off the bus driver. He turned out to be a DoorDash driver. He was still in front of the bus when he stopped. Stopped in the middle of the street and went into a Chinese restaurant. Got into a tiff with the bus driver on the way. Stayed inside for several minutes. When he got out and got back in his car, he still didn't move. The bus driver let a lady running late for work off the bus so she could go up to this guy's car and yell at him. To no effect. It wasn't until people further back in the developing traffic jam got out of their cars and started walking forward that he finally got the message.
I swear to you I am not doing justice to how much mayhem was going on here. And at some point I had to laugh because this felt like a story that would make someone say, "Only in New York."
Well, not anymore.
2 comments:
I can understand why the guy was very annoying. Definitely oblivious but the question is was it deliberate or an example of someone spatially unaware? Probably just rude.
Speaking of boorish behavior you might enjoy hearing Andre's version of how such conduct has become so much more common. We thought reality would tame the internet but it appears that internet savagery has infected the real world.
Some of it is reactive defiance, I think. No one likes to be told off, and that can cause you to do the opposite of what the other party wants you to do. Which in this case served no purpose. So it's a cautionary tale in that sense.
What can I say? I envy Andre's Swedish friend his self-discipline. More important than getting out of New York or any other particular place is getting out of the zone where others are manipulating you.
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