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Tonight, this board reminds me of the Nashville bus station.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, January 07, 2012, 06:05:28 AM

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The Good Reverend Roger

#15
January 09, 2012, 06:34:00 PM
Oh, and while I'm waiting, I leaf through some flyer that someone left.  It doesn't make much sense to me, because it's full of incomprehensible jargon.  I can't tell if it's supposed to be a subversive thing, or part of someone's PhD thesis in psychology.  But it beats watching all the faceless zombies around me, so I read it.

And it still doesn't make any sense.

Once in a while, there's a completely distorted squawk from the loudspeakers, and some people get up and leave, while others arrive.  I often worry that my bus has been called, and I missed it because I couldn't understand the announcement.  It's probable, in fact.  But as long as I have some quarters left, and the vending machine still has things in it, I guess I'll be okay.

But this place makes me wish for Cthulu or a big asteroid or Angry Jesus or a bunch of crazy Mayans.

You'd think a place like this would have doors leading out to the street, wouldn't you?  But it doesn't.  It just has arrivals and departures and a bathroom that finally described the word "squamous" to me in a manner that I could understand perfectly.

HEY, YOU BASTARDS!  WAKE UP!  WE ARE NOT CARGO, WE ARE...

...eh, nevermind.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#16
January 09, 2012, 06:44:59 PM
So I take another piss.  And sure as hell, right above the urinal, it says "FUCK YOU".  That's above every urinal in the United States.  It makes me wonder if it's one guy who travels a lot, or a secret society of misanthropes, or if maybe, JUST MAYBE, someone else with a face got so sick of screaming at the useless zombies in the terminal that they resorted to scrawling their hate above the toilet.

I wish I had a Sharpie.  I'd like to elaborate on that "FUCK YOU".

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Phox

#17
January 09, 2012, 06:55:21 PM
*actual conversation in the Nashville bus station*

Fancy-hat: I'm gon down ta Nawlins, Where'm from. So you's jes' stick wit me. I know was gon on.
Mr. Marine: I have a buddy who's a police officer down there. Thinking about becoming one myself.
Fancy-hat: Thas good, thas good. I needs mo' frens like dat. I hep ya out gin a staht.
Mr. Marine: Really? I'd appreciate that.
Fancy-hat: Come get some coffee wit me, and we's talk it ovah. Jes' go 'head n' leave ya bag, heah.
Mr. Marine: Sure it will be alright?
Fancy-hat: *indicating Phox* This young lady keep it safe. We have the same hat.

The Good Reverend Roger

#18
January 09, 2012, 06:56:10 PM
FUCK YOU!
(I wrote this in Ariel)

FUCK YOU!
I hate you.

FUCK YOU!
I'm lonely.

FUCK YOU!
Mom always loved you best!

FUCK YOU!
I could have been a contender!

FUCK YOU!
This isn't MY future!

FUCK YOU!
Where did all the fucking passenger pigeons go!

FUCK YOU!
Look at you, sitting there like luggage, while you're completely surrounded by people!

FUCK YOU!
I paid money!  Where is bus?

FUCK YOU!
I didn't sign up for THIS.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#19
January 09, 2012, 07:03:56 PM
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 09, 2012, 06:55:21 PM
*actual conversation in the Nashville bus station*

Fancy-hat: I'm gon down ta Nawlins, Where'm from. So you's jes' stick wit me. I know was gon on.
Mr. Marine: I have a buddy who's a police officer down there. Thinking about becoming one myself.
Fancy-hat: Thas good, thas good. I needs mo' frens like dat. I hep ya out gin a staht.
Mr. Marine: Really? I'd appreciate that.
Fancy-hat: Come get some coffee wit me, and we's talk it ovah. Jes' go 'head n' leave ya bag, heah.
Mr. Marine: Sure it will be alright?
Fancy-hat: *indicating Phox* This young lady keep it safe. We have the same hat.

You can usually trust someone in a fancy hat.  Especially an inappropriately fancy hat.

It shows that they might still have a face.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#20
January 09, 2012, 07:06:01 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2012, 06:44:59 PM
So I take another piss.  And sure as hell, right above the urinal, it says "FUCK YOU".  That's above every urinal in the United States.  It makes me wonder if it's one guy who travels a lot, or a secret society of misanthropes, or if maybe, JUST MAYBE, someone else with a face got so sick of screaming at the useless zombies in the terminal that they resorted to scrawling their hate above the toilet.

I wish I had a Sharpie.  I'd like to elaborate on that "FUCK YOU".

Wowwwwww

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#21
January 09, 2012, 07:17:21 PM
I have this paralyzing hint of a memory that says this wasn't always a bus station.  It was something else, and then something happened, and now I'm surrounded by the victims of The Spider, alongside some evangelists who occasionally wander through and tell me about my Holy Guardian Angel and some other shit from some guy who thought he could talk to demons and dead people.  Or maybe he used that as some kind of trick to fool himself into thinking, or something like that.

Well, at least they aren't Mormons.  Mormons really get up my ass.

But the problem is, it's nothing but jargon ginned up to make it all seem profound or occult, when any damn fool could tell you THE SAME THING in PLAIN ENGLISH.  But if they did that, it wouldn't make them SHAMANS, it would mean that they wouldn't have any sort of SECRET KNOWLEDGE KNOWN ONLY TO THE ADEPTS.

But in spite of - because of - this strange language they're speaking, nobody listens to them, and they eventually wander off, leaving me no more educated than I was before they arrived. 

More squawking over the announcement.  For a moment, it sounded hideous...Something about "All passengers traveling to reeducation camps" or something.  But I probably just heard it wrong.

Well, time to get more coffee-like goo from the vending machine.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Phox

#22
January 09, 2012, 07:17:45 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2012, 07:03:56 PM
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 09, 2012, 06:55:21 PM
*actual conversation in the Nashville bus station*

Fancy-hat: I'm gon down ta Nawlins, Where'm from. So you's jes' stick wit me. I know was gon on.
Mr. Marine: I have a buddy who's a police officer down there. Thinking about becoming one myself.
Fancy-hat: Thas good, thas good. I needs mo' frens like dat. I hep ya out gin a staht.
Mr. Marine: Really? I'd appreciate that.
Fancy-hat: Come get some coffee wit me, and we's talk it ovah. Jes' go 'head n' leave ya bag, heah.
Mr. Marine: Sure it will be alright?
Fancy-hat: *indicating Phox* This young lady keep it safe. We have the same hat.

You can usually trust someone in a fancy hat.  Especially an inappropriately fancy hat.

It shows that they might still have a face.
It was like 3 in the morning, and I had like a 2 hour wait. But I watched that bag for the whole 5 minutes they were walking up and getting coffee. Talked to them a little bit and they turned out to be alright. I don't remember what we talked about, specifically. But i remember that Mr. Marine mentioned that he had just gotten out of the Corps. He seemed like he was from North Somewhere, and I couldn't figure out why he wasn't heading that way. But I never asked.

Fancy-hat was a musician of some kind, and he apparently took the bus around the country as often as he could. He liked meeting new people and having conversations. He was very good at reading people, and also very good about making people comfortable around him. He never really said much about himself, but I got the feeling that he was a genuinely kind person, and wasn't putting up an act with his friendly demeanor.

That was probably the most pleasant part of the entire trip (ask Kai about why I will never ride a bus again). You know, I kind of wonder, now that it's six, seven months later,  how things worked out for Mr. Marine. I wonder where Fancy-hat is now. Traveling from place to place, or staying at home in New Orleans? I'll probably never run into either of them ever again, but I do wonder what that fleeting contact meant to them.

The Good Reverend Roger

#23
January 09, 2012, 07:30:30 PM Last Edit: January 09, 2012, 07:33:48 PM by The Good Reverend Roger
Well, Phox, once I was sitting here, and some guy came up and started evangelizing to me.

"You live in a bucket of light-brown shit.", he said.

"Don't I know it, brother.", I replied.

"Well, I can help you with that.  You have to dump dark brown shit into the bucket, to cancel out the light brown shit.  Problem solved."

"But then I'll just have twice as much shit in the bucket."

"What are you?", he screamed, "Some kind of troublemaker?"

Then he stormed off, leaving me no more enlightened that I was in the first place.

(ETA:  Parable explained upon request.  It occurs to me that PILLZ HERE.)
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#24
January 09, 2012, 08:03:04 PM
I like this bus station.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#25
January 09, 2012, 08:06:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel on January 09, 2012, 08:03:04 PM
I like this bus station.

Stick around.  You'll like it so much you'll collapse screaming and clawing at the windows.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

navkat

#26
January 09, 2012, 09:30:46 PM
I'm the one who stole all the "Ts" and "Vs" off the pay-televisions...Just so you know.

The Good Reverend Roger

#27
January 09, 2012, 09:31:48 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 09, 2012, 09:30:46 PM
I'm the one who stole all the "Ts" and "Vs" off the pay-televisions...Just so you know.


"paeleisions"?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

navkat

#28
January 09, 2012, 09:36:29 PM
And a pile of plastic "Ts" and "Vs" on the floor, underneath the urinal where I am now playing. Won't you play with me, Rog? Won't you halp me make clothsies for my dollies out of potty-paper, Rog?

The Good Reverend Roger

#29
January 09, 2012, 09:40:32 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 09, 2012, 09:36:29 PM
And a pile of plastic "Ts" and "Vs" on the floor, underneath the urinal where I am now playing. Won't you play with me, Rog? Won't you halp me make clothsies for my dollies out of potty-paper, Rog?

I'd love to help, but I have an aversion to dolls.   :lol:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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