Surreal Bus Ride

As I was riding the bus to my house, about six years ago, the bus ride turned weird ---ooooo.

It was a tough bus line --- through a rough part of town.

Teenagers in the back, where I was seated--- began to show each other the jewelry they had stolen from a shop in downtown Seattle.

Then I was harassed by a drunk --- who was in my face about this and that - nothing of which I could understand--- luckily we came to a stop and he tried to get off the bus --- but, he fell down the stairwell in the back and blocked the entrance. He couldn't get up. The bus driver kept trying to shut the door but it kept bumping into this guy. He was too drunk to get himself up. Finally, the bus driver got out, went to the back and drug this guy out into the sidewalk, and the door closed.

As I was sighing a relief that we could continue, the surreal aspect took over: on the floor, in the middle of the walk way a small orange-red crab was walking toward the back. What the heck??!! It came out of no where, just walking along, as if it lived in the bus. The teenagers started pointing and talking loudly --- "it's a crab!" They busted up laughing and the bus driver looked momentarily in his rear view mirror at the commotion, but deciding, it was the least of his concerns, started the bus and we were off.

We were moving forward. The crab continued toward the back of the bus, no one going near it. At the next stop, another drunk got out, but not before stooping down and picking up the crab in his palm and walking outside, into the dark.