From Portland, Oregon: "Here? No? Here?" [a Top Ten Bus Stories nominee], by Bill Reagan (posted on Trimet Diaries)

The man waiting on the corner had no way of knowing that the young woman’s bus ride had been thoroughly exasperating. He would have understood her exuberant leap from the bus if he had known how she spent the entire ride from downtown wondering if the next stop was hers, or the next, unsure if she was even close, wishing someone on the #35 spoke Japanese. But he didn’t know, and that’s why he got the wrong idea.

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