Busboy's Annual Pass: Was It Worth It? Spreadsheet for January.

And we were out of town for a week, too.

You can find out what this is all about here.

From Portland, Oregon: "Here’s My Card" [a Top Ten Bus Stories nominee], by Bill Reagan (posted on Trimet Diaries)

I wear glasses . . . except I don’t actually wear my glasses. They fine tune my vision, but things within 10 feet are mostly clear without them, so I don’t wear them. What this means on the bus is that if I’m scanning to see if anyone I know is aboard, I have to focus for a second or two on each face, and that means I make a lot of eye contact. Being a friendly sort, this is fine with me, and usually, people I don’t know just glance back then we both look away.

When I hopped onto the #75 to get home last week, one woman who I didn’t recognize didn’t look away. (Read more here.)

Paul Kirchner's The Bus

Paul Kirchner.  Downloaded from Wikipedia.

I found a reference to this series on Muni Dairies. With the help of Google, I discovered Paul Kirchner is a writer and illustrator who originally published this series in the monthly magazine Heavy Metal, from 1978-1985. Wonderfully surreal.

From all around the world: "Legs bared around the world for annual 'No Pants' commute." (Agence France-Presse)

Bare legs and briefs filled train cars from Sydney to New York Sunday as passengers traveled trouserless -- provoking laughs and perplexed looks -- for the 13th annual "No Pants Subway Ride." (Read more here.)

From NYC's Grand Central Station: "Stainless, 42 Street (excerpt)," by Adam Magyar (video)

Stainless, 42 Street (excerpt)

From Boston: "Strangers on a bus" [a Top Ten Bus Stories nominee], by Sarah Kess for the Boston Globe Magazine

As we all listened to a young woman getting dumped over the phone, one passenger spoke up with a message I’ll always remember. (Read more here.)