I went out to complete a few errands. Among them was to visit the education library to sign out a few resource materials.

And the bus ride home was so much fun! Not only was I lugging a 1000 page teacher's resource binder, but I was listening to music on my CD player as well. I boarded the #8 bus (known for having loud teenagers, drug dealers, alcoholics, cell phone gamers and people who don't know what volume control is on their music players) to complete my trip. When the bus reached Millgate "transit centre", there were many empty seats, but oddly enough there was a woman who deliberately sat beside me, on the front seats. I think she was illiterate, because she asked me where we were. Why she didn't ask the bus driver is beyond me. So I whispered to her "Millgate". She nodded, probably not having a clue where she exactly was .

Then she asked me what I was listening to. I said "classical music". She asked if she could listen. I was worried about having hygenically clean headphones, so I shook my head. Maybe she was trying to distract me and then try to take my wallet. As the bus headed towards Mill Woods, she yelled at the driver "when are we going to get to downtown?" Wrong direction, miss. The driver suggested that she get off at Millbourne Mall and then transfer, but she said she'd rather just stay on (hmm...adds 30 minutes to the trip). Suddenly the #8 to downtown came, and she wanted to get off, but the bus driver had already pulled away from said stop. Just before she got off, she asked me if I'd give her $2 for another bus ride to get home. I told her I didn't have any change, and disembarked before anything else happened.