I'm a bad boy...
Feb. 19th, 2002 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreGoing to work for me involves taking two buses, the MUNI line 28, and SamTrans 120. The 28 is always crowded with students going to San Francisco State.
This morning was no different, and I looked in despair for a seat. Hey, I'm they one who spends all day walking! There was one, but a student had piled his book bag on the window seat, and was sitting on the aisle seat reading Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears.
This tactic pisses me off. You want privacy? Buy a damn car! So anyway, I ask politely if he could move his stuff so I can sit down. He ignores me. I ask again, and he just glares at me. Finally, I get to reply, and that reply is "no!"
Those familiar with me should know that vast cosmic powers have been granted to me in times such as these..
I looked at him and said: "Nice book. The atomic bomb goes off at the Superbowl in Denver, killing the Secretaries of State and Defense. The crazy National Security Advisor goes completely over the edge, and insists it is a Soviet attack. Jack Ryan has to get on the hotline himself and talk the Soviets down while scientists confirm that it wasn't a Soviet nuke. Enjoy the rest of it." And walk further back in the bus.
He should have let me sit down.
This morning was no different, and I looked in despair for a seat. Hey, I'm they one who spends all day walking! There was one, but a student had piled his book bag on the window seat, and was sitting on the aisle seat reading Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears.
This tactic pisses me off. You want privacy? Buy a damn car! So anyway, I ask politely if he could move his stuff so I can sit down. He ignores me. I ask again, and he just glares at me. Finally, I get to reply, and that reply is "no!"
Those familiar with me should know that vast cosmic powers have been granted to me in times such as these..
I looked at him and said: "Nice book. The atomic bomb goes off at the Superbowl in Denver, killing the Secretaries of State and Defense. The crazy National Security Advisor goes completely over the edge, and insists it is a Soviet attack. Jack Ryan has to get on the hotline himself and talk the Soviets down while scientists confirm that it wasn't a Soviet nuke. Enjoy the rest of it." And walk further back in the bus.
He should have let me sit down.
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Date: 19 Feb 2002 23:06 (UTC)and yes, it's a great book. Clancy's solution to the mideast peace process is implausible, but nice.