Close as Penguins
It's funny how cold weather brings people together. This morning I got up bright and early to catch the 6:29am-Highland bus to txstate. At about 6:39 we weren't "having it" anymore and decided to huddle up like a bunch of penguins to keep warm. It was great! I met five-new-cool people. Behroz (pronounced Berus-whom has served in desert storm), Emily (who had an 8:00am class), Lance (who has served in the navy for three years) and some other chic that ditched us after about an hour of waiting. (I never got her name).So finally, around 8:00am, this guy named Travis (who recognized Behroz-pronounced Berus) pulls up in his SUV and tells us he's just gotten off the phone with auxillary services and that apparently the 6:29am AND 7:32am bus are stuck in traffic (yeah right! They're totally are at Whataburger chowing down on a sausage biscuit slash sipping on some coffee until the traffic dies down. It doesn't take that long to get through traffic that early in the morning-AND I promise this is the last of the parenthesis). So he offers us all a ride. Well, actually Behroz just kind of invited himself and subsequently so did the rest of us. But Travis was totally cool with it. We each gave him $5 for gas for the trouble. What a sweetheart!
It was such a pleasant drive. We all talked about our weekend. Then, our majors. Then, Michael Jackson (Don't ask). Then, our role-models (oddly enough Lance does not believe in role-models and oh crap I forgot I wasn't supposed to use anymore parenthesis). Then a little bit of football, because the guys outnumbered the girls in the SUV. I didn't contribute much to that conversation. Now, had it been tennis-talk...I probably would have contributed the most. Then, we talked about camping and what to bring on camping trips, because Travis had mentioned he had just gone camping. Then, our ideal jobs. Then, it abruptly switched over to the subject of Chemistry, because it had just "sunk in" that I had mentioned Chemistry as my major and Lance suddenly became very interested in what plans my were with that field. Or maybe he fancied me. Probably not. That would be too good to be true. NEways. I really got to know these people and I hope I run into them again sometime in the near future. I recommend waiting for the bus in cold-rainy weather if you are looking to build relationships.
posted by Becca @ 1:33 AM
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