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

#45
January 12, 2012, 07:07:51 PM
So I'm sitting there, STILL WAITING, when along comes the dreaded Bus Station Loony.  He's a familiar-looking guy, and he's wearing a piss & vomit-stained overcoat and bearing a sign saying "REPENT!"  He comes up and jabbers at me for a while, about how it's all gone rotten and wrong and how we HAVE TO GET OUT OF THIS TRAP.

I stare at the wall, as do my fellow detainees of schedule, and eventually, the guy leaves.  The rest of us exchange glances, and then give that collective small group laugh, you know, the one where you all agree that the guy was crazier than a shithouse rat and aren't we all glad we're not in that shape.

A while later, I go to the bathroom.  After doing my business, I wash my hands and then splash a little water on my face.  And then I look in the mirror, and I see the crazy bastard looking right back at me.

HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN IN THIS BUS STATION?
" 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

#46
January 13, 2012, 04:43:28 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 07:07:51 PM
So I'm sitting there, STILL WAITING, when along comes the dreaded Bus Station Loony.  He's a familiar-looking guy, and he's wearing a piss & vomit-stained overcoat and bearing a sign saying "REPENT!"  He comes up and jabbers at me for a while, about how it's all gone rotten and wrong and how we HAVE TO GET OUT OF THIS TRAP.

I stare at the wall, as do my fellow detainees of schedule, and eventually, the guy leaves.  The rest of us exchange glances, and then give that collective small group laugh, you know, the one where you all agree that the guy was crazier than a shithouse rat and aren't we all glad we're not in that shape.

A while later, I go to the bathroom.  After doing my business, I wash my hands and then splash a little water on my face.  And then I look in the mirror, and I see the crazy bastard looking right back at me.

HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN IN THIS BUS STATION?

Oooooooooh

Goddamn, that is exactly it, isn't it?
"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."

Nephew Twiddleton

#47
January 13, 2012, 04:47:45 AM
Yeah that installment made me go whoa..... Fuck me running also.
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
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navkat

#48
January 16, 2012, 05:20:35 PM
How many people never leave their agrarian, pastoral existences ever? They grow up in Mobile, AL, never leave Mobile, AL, root for "The Tide," mindlessly cheer the dropping of a fucking Moon Pie on NYE and scream "MOBILE ALABAMA IS THE GREATEST CITY ON EARTH" when they've never been past Pritchard.

Face it: You're going to have to accept being here sometimes if you want to take a bus anywhere.

The Good Reverend Roger

#49
January 16, 2012, 05:24:07 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 16, 2012, 05:20:35 PM
How many people never leave their agrarian, pastoral existences ever? They grow up in Mobile, AL, never leave Mobile, AL, root for "The Tide," mindlessly cheer the dropping of a fucking Moon Pie on NYE and scream "MOBILE ALABAMA IS THE GREATEST CITY ON EARTH" when they've never been past Pritchard.

Face it: You're going to have to accept being here sometimes if you want to take a bus anywhere.

Yeah, but sometimes you get stuck.  Dr Suess wrote this great horror story for adults once, called Oh, The Places You Will Go, which seems like a simple story book for children, until you get to the part about "the waiting place".  Then it's all about trying not to scream in horror as you read to your child.
" 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

#50
January 16, 2012, 05:31:37 PM
Which reminds me, I'm sure you've seen this:
http://youtu.be/ahv_1IS7SiE

It's a fucking trip Rog. And sometimes that trip includes sitting around in Richmond, VA, listening to an 80-year-old black man in an Army-green jacket talk to you for hours on end about everything from his late wife to the 60 different ways there are to prepare grits.

I just go into the bathroom and steal the Glade, spray it into a plastic bag and huff the fumes that rise to the top. Makes the wait a little more tingly in the crotchal area.

The Good Reverend Roger

#51
January 16, 2012, 05:33:29 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 16, 2012, 05:31:37 PM
It's a fucking trip Rog. And sometimes that trip includes sitting around in Richmond, VA, listening to an 80-year-old black man in an Army-green jacket talk to you for hours on end about everything from his late wife to the 60 different ways there are to prepare grits.

People like that are a national treasure, even if they can become a little annoying.
" 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

#52
January 16, 2012, 05:49:17 PM
20 years later and I still remember him. <3

Don Coyote

#53
January 16, 2012, 06:59:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 16, 2012, 05:33:29 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 16, 2012, 05:31:37 PM
It's a fucking trip Rog. And sometimes that trip includes sitting around in Richmond, VA, listening to an 80-year-old black man in an Army-green jacket talk to you for hours on end about everything from his late wife to the 60 different ways there are to prepare grits.

People like that are a national treasure, even if they can become a little annoying.

Would it surprise you I have yet to run into one of those?

navkat

#54
January 16, 2012, 07:01:22 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 16, 2012, 06:59:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 16, 2012, 05:33:29 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 16, 2012, 05:31:37 PM
It's a fucking trip Rog. And sometimes that trip includes sitting around in Richmond, VA, listening to an 80-year-old black man in an Army-green jacket talk to you for hours on end about everything from his late wife to the 60 different ways there are to prepare grits.

People like that are a national treasure, even if they can become a little annoying.

Would it surprise you I have yet to run into one of those?

Yes. Get out more.

Better yet: come to New Orleans.

The Good Reverend Roger

#55
January 16, 2012, 07:04:59 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 16, 2012, 06:59:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 16, 2012, 05:33:29 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 16, 2012, 05:31:37 PM
It's a fucking trip Rog. And sometimes that trip includes sitting around in Richmond, VA, listening to an 80-year-old black man in an Army-green jacket talk to you for hours on end about everything from his late wife to the 60 different ways there are to prepare grits.

People like that are a national treasure, even if they can become a little annoying.

Would it surprise you I have yet to run into one of those?

My son and I spent 2 hours at the Tucson airport listening to a man who flew Mustangs over Europe in WWII.  He was on his way to a reunion, as a matter of fact, of about 5 remaining pilots.  It was kind of neat talking to a man who had helped keep the world a tolerable place to live in.
" 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

#56
January 16, 2012, 07:08:46 PM
I spent an hour at the Mechanicsville bus stop in Bay Shore, NY when I was 18, listening to two yahoos who identified themselves only as "Saint Augustine" and "Coco Loco" ramble on drunkenly for hours about how you gotta love your woman.

EDIT: It was HOURS in an HOUR.

The Good Reverend Roger

#57
August 04, 2012, 06:10:58 PM
Doo bee doo bee doooooooooooo

Next time you go into a bus station or airport terminal, try to imagine the place being completely empty, with 1/8" of dust all over everything, a few chairs knocked over, some broken or cracked windows, etc.

Because one day, for some reason, it will look just like that.
" 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

#58
August 04, 2012, 06:17:44 PM
Quote from: The Dead Reverend Roger on August 04, 2012, 06:10:58 PM
Doo bee doo bee doooooooooooo

Next time you go into a bus station or airport terminal, try to imagine the place being completely empty, with 1/8" of dust all over everything, a few chairs knocked over, some broken or cracked windows, etc.

Because one day, for some reason, it will look just like that.

:lulz: I always see everything like that. Sometimes it's hard for me to see anything the normal way.
"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

#59
August 04, 2012, 06:25:54 PM
Quote from: PROFOUNDLY RETARDED CHARLIE MANSON on August 04, 2012, 06:17:44 PM
Quote from: The Dead Reverend Roger on August 04, 2012, 06:10:58 PM
Doo bee doo bee doooooooooooo

Next time you go into a bus station or airport terminal, try to imagine the place being completely empty, with 1/8" of dust all over everything, a few chairs knocked over, some broken or cracked windows, etc.

Because one day, for some reason, it will look just like that.

:lulz: I always see everything like that. Sometimes it's hard for me to see anything the normal way.

So do I.  Jenne says it's morbid as hell.  I view it as a kind of optimism.
" 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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