Bus Driver Drunk Suicide

Unknown User RAYGONNE at pacbell.net
Mon May 12 23:30:19 CDT 1997


Kyle Grieser wrote:
> 
> > > You know that quote--" Living inside the system is like driving across
> > >  the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
> > >  on suicide."
> > >    - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
> 
> Of course, all of us that grew up riding the bus to school knows this
> feeling :-).
> 
> "Hey!  It smells just like Otto's Jacket!"
> 
> -yuf
once in germany while studying abroad, i took a busride with the other
delinquents on the program, who'd brought along a very nasty bottle of
liquor, which they tried to force on the weak of will. the bus driver
turned and asked for the bottle--i assumed he was confiscating it.
instead, he tossed back a couple slugs (swerving dramatically) and
passed it on.
ray



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