Bus Trip/Absinthe

Because I wanted to go see a cute girl in Bozeman and I'm running out of Blog material...I took a Greyhound Bus Trip!

With the current gas prices, I found out that it is actually cheaper for me to take the Greyhound then it is to take the "Millennium Turtle". So I got online and bought myself a round trip ticket to Bozeman from Missoula. I've been on the bus plenty and I know what to expect.

1. Bored, loud children
2. Someone will freak out or make a scene
3. Someone will want to talk to me

I wasn't on the bus 15 minutes before a 20 something girl with bruises sat down next to me and asked, "Do you like Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy?" Believe it or not...I'm not an asshole right away. I got 5 or so hours to be trapped in this aluminum, tinted window hell and I don't need someone trying to stab me while I sleep with my head pinned between the window and the seat. I reply, "Sure, it's not really my thing, but it's kinda funny." According to the clock on my phone, she recited bits and pieces of "redneck" humor for over half an hour. From Bearmouth to Drummond. To move her away from the subject of the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" I asked her where she is headed. In one breath, rehearsed from saying it to 100 people over the last 1000 miles....

"I'm on Parole and I'm heading back to Wichita to pick up my kids from my Mom's house, where they lived for the last 2 years 'cause I was in jail for stabbin' my ex-husband with a big ol' knife."

"No shit?" I even asked her to repeat it so I could write it down.

"Can I use your iPod?"

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Next. Absinthe has been made legal in the US for the first time since 1915. Now, I'm not a drug person. I drink too much and then I steal a drag off of someone's cigarette, but that is it. During the years of 2004 and 2005 I smoked pot 12 times and I hated it 11 times. Nothing else. There is way to much crazy shit going on in my head to add a reaction from a drug. I already have issues with reality.

but...

Absinthe.

The "green fairy" and I get along nicely.

Remember, End of the Year Giftgiving is right around the corner...