Bus rides

Last year when I went home for summer I was 24 hours late for what could have been a terrible accident. A huge boulder landed on the road right after the bus had passed. If anyone had been under when it fell, they would have been instantly killed. The bus was minutes away from it, I was exactly 24 hours late.



Today, the day before I'm about to get on the bus home, that very same bus caught fire. It happened when the bus had stopped to board the ferry across the fjord, smoke was everywhere, the passengers were evacuated and the ferry crew had the fire put out in as little as six minutes.





The reason for this year's accident, as last year's, remains unknown.


- I'm not sure if this means someone is trying to kill me and constantly get the dates wrong, or if there's a guardian angel up there making sure bad things happen before I even have the chance to get there..

As seen on Bergen's buses.

I kinda love it because... is it just me or does "I'm a virgin, open your mouth" make you think of something quite different from fresh mints...?

Bus adventures

I'm at the library in the town where I went to high school. I went to see the dentist at 10 and now I'm waiting for my bus home.

I left at 9 this morning, way too early for me. When you take the 9am bus, the next one is at 12, you take the first one for five mins, then wait 10 minutes for the second one, and then it's a 15 min ride to get here. When I got on the first bus, which is the school bus coming back from school, I said I wanted a student ticket to Stryn. He looked at me and said. High school kids take this bus when they're late for the other one, I know I did a few times.

I figured he must be wondering if I had a bus card thing for school because then I might not have had to pay. I said 'Erm... no', and he said it was 40kr (about $6). It was supposed to cost 30kr so I said I had asked for a ticket for students. He looked at me, again, and said "But you're old!" Yeah... There were only three other passengers, an woman and two kinda old men. Someone started giggling and I said "Gee, thanks". I went to that high school, and by that bus, 18 months ago, am I old already??

I said I wasn't going to school but I'm still a student and he went 'Umm... why don't you pay when we get there? (there being where we'd be waiting for the other bus).

I might be too old for high school, but I'm not old thankyouverymuch! He probably knew how old I was cuz everybody in town knows each other (more or less), and meant I couldn't still be in high school. Think before you speak!