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TalesOfThe358

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Route #358 is the most entertaining bus route in the Seattle area. It's the bus that ran off the Aurora Bridge. It's the bus than ran over a person in front of Macy's. It's the bus that ran into a telephone pole. It's the bus that runs from downtown to Aurora Ave, connecting the area's two loci of seediness. Here are some of my personal adventures:

Date	Activities
10/23/07	I'm reading a book "Discovering God." The 50-ish man across from me asks about it, and if it was about the "covenant of God." I told him not really, that it's a sociology book. He starting tell me it's all about the covenant. My answers (e.g. "That's one interpretation.") didn't satisfy him. At one point I mentioned Islam and he explained that Mohammed means "deceiver" \[it actually means "praiseworthy"\] and that he was Satan, and deceived people, and how we could understand Islam from the attacks on 9/11. The Turkish fellow standing next to him didn't agree, and explained how the Koran accepts all religions, and how Muslims from his hometown would welcome into their home any stranger in need regardless of his beliefs. The older fellow insisted he didn't intend to judge anyone, and clarified that his statements about other people's prophets being Satan were not judgement but merely discernment. The discussion was relatively calm, and I never got the opportunity to ask the man what kind of sense it made for someone with a goal of deceiving people to introduce himself as "Deceiver."
10/22/07	Two men, one white and one black and both in their 30s, with a strong scent of alcohol get on the bus. The white guy tries to make some joke about someone sitting in his reserved seat, and stumbles around trying to engage various people on the bus. When he approaches a young, chubby boy, the boy's mother tells him the boy doesn't speak English, and the black man tells him to leave the kid alone. The drunk guy then starts yelling, "Stranger Danger! Stranger Danger!" Eventually, the black guy jumps up and threatens to punch the drunk(er) guy. The drunk guy says, "Oh you think you're the big hero? I'm not afraid of you!" but runs toward the front of the bus. Several times they repeat the process of the white guy stumbling back toward the back, the black guy standing and threatening him, and the white slinking back toward the front. At one point the black guy says "He doesn't mean any harm, he's just drunk. He's my friend (!) but you asked him to leave the boy alone and that should have been the end of it." At the Dexter stop they started yelling and shouting again, and they both got off, yelling and semi-fighting as we drove away.
10/21/07	A street woman took a seat right behind the driver, occasionally popping her head out of her bundle of blankets to stare and cackle wildly. The smell from her was weird and overpowering. The white people on the bus turned their heads and subtley covered our noses, but a couple black males who got on confronted the issue more directly. "Bus driver, what's that SMELL?!?!" They quickly located the source and complained loudly as they opened windows. The driver seemed to be struggling to concentrate on driving, the smell was so powerful. After calling in, he told the woman at the Dexter stop, "M'am, you have to get off the bus." The woman protested as she clambered off. "Doesn't this bus go up Aurora?" "No." "You don't turn go north on Aurora?" "No, M'am." And we drove off (to Aurora)