Bus Rides

I don't think you can ever really know a city if you don't use the public transportation system every now and then. I took the city bus downtown today and, just like every time I take the bus, I saw a little different piece of the city than I usually do.

Today I had the bonus of amazing people watching. An 18-year-old girl with a voice that could pass for Ellen Page (Juno) and could have been reading from another script by Diablo Cody kind of stole the stage, though. She chatted all the way from downtown to the Lake street station (thus, how I know her age). I absolutely loved her confidence. Her ongoing monologue was only interrupted to shout "bless you" toward the back of the bus after someone sneezed. Quotes:

"Now, bartending. That'd be an awesome job and come on, I'm so cute!"

"The only other alternative would be that they don't like me and that just wouldn't make sense because I'm awesome."

"My parents raised a pretty hilarious kid."

And my favorite:

"I mean I'm a pretty decent catch. If I caught me, I wouldn't throw me back, you know what I mean?"

I've always thought I was pretty great myself but if I had been able to vocalize that like this gal I might have been able to save myself some heartache along the way. Then again, I got a book out of the heartache so one way or the other, I found my voice.