Today I once again caught the DC7 bus from Loudon to Washington DC. And my new pet project was up to her tricks again. This is the fattish blond woman that I wrote about previously. She was already in the seats placarded as being for disabled people, seats 13 and 14, when I got on. But this time, to suggest that no one was welcome to sit down next to her, she was sitting in the aisle seat with her handbag and other property spread out across the window seat. I guess that non-handicapped women sometimes need BOTH handicapped seats.
I was about to push the issue and request one of the seats, but noticed another pair of the roomier disabled seats open and decided to just take one of them instead...this time. But from this seat I could watch her, and it was truly educational and entertaining.
She read her book until we reached the stop in Leesburg, where most people board. As we pulled into the Leesburg stop, she put her book aside, lay back, AND PRETENDED TO BE ASLEEP! Obviously her intent was to feign slumber so as to dissuade anyone else getting on from "waking" her and asking for the other seat. And it worked. The bus filled almost completely up, but no one disturbed her and asked for one of the roomy seats. (Of course none of them appeared to be disabled, either.) And no sooner did the bus leave the Leesburg stop and head for the highway then she "woke up", moved to her preferred window seat, and commenced reading her book again, now secure in the knowledge that no one was likely to get up from their present seats and demand one of the two that she was hogging.
She's going to catch a break tomorrow and Friday because I don't have to be in so early, but next Monday, we're going to play. I don't care which seat she's in--I'll be in the other one. And I'm liable to have a rather nasty cough and fidget a lot.
Heh, heh, heh...
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