DART Crazies...

If there were no crazy people in this world then DART would be out ofbusiness. Lately I have been seeing my fare share of crazy and odd people.A few weeks ago I decided to take the 36 from downtown to Addison. Iusually take the 183 but I felt I needed new scenery. Everything was goingwell until we got to Highland Park. A fairly handsome black man boardedthe bus and sat down. He then put on a turquoise, terry-cloth turban. Hewas smiling from ear to ear and started telling everyone that "this is aspace ship and we are gonna take off! I can't wait to get to outer space!"He continued to chant to himself, never loosing his big smile. A few mileslater this very short woman boarded. She was bearing all her worldlypossessions in a suit case and a large Hefty bag. She was wearing flipflops, bright orange pants, pink gloves, and a black wool hooded cape-withthe hood up. She looked like some sort of wicked sorceress. She, too, was chanting to herself and then stood up to announce that she is willing tobuy, sell, or trade. Buy, sell, or trade what is beyond me. I wanted toask but then decided that it would be in my best interest to keep quiet.She kept picking her nose and mumbling to herself. She basically wasdigging every 30 seconds into her nose. Instead of using a tissue todispose of her boogers, she was using her orange pants. Maybe she wassaving them for a stew or something. The man in the turban looked at meand said "that bitch is crazy." At which point he got up and moved. Ijust started laughing. Then on Tuesday I needed to get to Baylor Hospitalso I took the 44. Wow! The bus was packed and I was certainly a minority. A man got on and asked a guy nicely if he would move over and when the guy refused all hell broke loose. Basically, he stepped over into the seat and pushed the other man out. He kept yelling "you can't take two fucking seats!" Then the prophet boarded. He was preaching that we all were going straight to hell! REPENT, REPENT. Then he said the Lord is talking through him. The woman sitting next to me said "mmhum, that ain't the Lord talkin'" At which point another woman said "m'kay, that's Jack Daniel talking!" That got all the ladies laughing and I kept hearing a lot of"mmmmm, I know that's right" and "ohhhhh, child!" I couldn't help butlaugh along with everyone else. Then today a woman got on. She had to be a good 400 pounds and was dressed in a bright yellow jump suit. You could have seen her from space! I am sure she is a nice lady but she was just so very yellow.