Further restraint - almost...

This morning started off just great.

I woke up at the time I usually leave to catch my bus. So that's always a good feeling to start the day.

So, not wanting to be 30 minutes late, I got ready in Wonder Woman style - just spun around a few times and BOOM! I was dressed and ready to go fight crime.

Mind you, I'm usually running to catch a bus b/c they typically arrive every 3 minutes. Nope - Not on the day when I'm running late, of course.

I wait about 7 minutes getting all the more irritated because if the bus had been there when it should have been, I could have only been 10 minutes late for work. Yes, Instead the bus took forever and I knew I'd wind up being 15 minutes late - something my boss asked me not to do.

THEN, the bus was crowded as hell. There were about 5 of us getting on and it was already standing room only in there. Ugh. Poor people smell.

Anyway, the bus stopped a few blocks away and this gaggle of retirees got on. One old guy started yelling, "Move to the back everyone!"

I didn't blame him - the people standing behind me certainly had the ability to make more standing room up front -- and we did make room for these old people. But, this guy insists on bitching for 3 blocks and repeating how much it irritates him that people just don't want to move. Finally, he looked at me and demanded, "Move over so I can go back then..."

There were a ton of people already standing behind me. So I said, "What do you want us to do? There's no where to go back there - don't you see us all standing in the aisle??..."

And he replied with, "You people just don't want to move - there's all kinds of room back there, pal."

So I *calmly* said, "Don't call me Pal. And calm down - you'll have a stroke."

To which he simply said, "Jerk."

And I said, "Yes, I am..."

Seriously, am I a magnet for people who feel like instigating an argument?? I swear one of these days I'm really gonna go Glenn Close on someone.