Saturday, March 03, 2007

I Thought I Thaw a Terroritht!

We all meet weird people on the bus.

From serial molesters to serial nose diggers who kindly wipe their nose shit on the stop-bell button you were about to press.

But this guy...




...takes the cake.
He first got on the bus, with a big black bag.
He looked around, then sat down in the seat opposite mine.
Then his behaviour started to deviate from normalcy.
He looked at the ceiling, then closed his eyes and then made the meditation sign with his hands (as in the one you see Buddhist monks do when they meditate).
Then, he opened his eyes, and counted to four with the fingers on both hands.
Then he clasped his hands in prayer and muttered to himself, and closed his eyes again.
Then he unclasped his hands.
Then he raised both hands into the air, palms opened and facing the ceiling, and opened his eyes, and muttered more unintelligeble stuff.
Then, still looking at the ceiling, he closed his eyes and made the meditation sign with his hands.
And he repeated the whole sequence at least 7 times.
I dont know what the f*** he was trying to do, but it scared the shit out of me.
I mean come on. This guy starts acting looney and he's got a great big black bag with him on his lap. And we've all been watching the stuff on the news about bombs and terror and blown-up buses and trains.
And you know how TV Mobile keeps playing that annoying track about "What to do with Suspicious Packages on the bus-they might be a terrorist bomb"?
Well that didnt calm me down at all with the weird guy sitting just across me in the aisle.
Just before he got off he took out his cellphone and began to fiddle around with it.
And when he finally left I thought he would leave the bag behind.
Thankfully he didnt, but, damn, that was one bus ride that scared the shit out of me.