Ride for free

Today I took a ride on the free shuttle for the first time, and the experience was interesting to say the least. I was riding the bus after the Creative Communications IPP Presentations (Which were really good by the way) which were at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. The bus was taking me back to school to do this blog post (Oh that's cool) and other homework.

The first thing I noticed was that it was one of the short buses that Winnipeg Transit has. The one door meant that the front door was a busy place. As I stepped on the bus driver clicked his counter above the change machine, I guess transit keeps count of all the people that ride for free. As me and my friend Matt made our way through the busy bus we found two seats in the back.

There were definitely some characters back there. Right across from us was an old lady who was talking to everyone around her, beside her was a couple who were very cuddly, and too the right of us was a homeless guy who didn't say a word.

The old lady and the couple were talking about something I couldn't understand, but they were talking very fast. Another homeless guy came and sat beside the old lady, from what I could tell they hadn't known each other. The man sat between the couple and the old lady, so immediately after he sat down the old lady leaned over the homeless guy to talk to them. The old lady started to move her hand onto the homeless guys lap and rested it on his upper thigh. The homeless guy looked across at us and made an extremely hilarious face.

The old lady asked the couple were they lived, then asked the address, the asked them to write it down. Without hesitation the woman wrote down her address. The homeless guy looked at us again, and again made an extremely hilarious face. Finally our stop came and we got off the bus. After getting off me and Matt looked at each other and laughed.

"That was the weirdest bus ride in my whole life," said Matt.

Well Matt, welcome to the life of a bus blogger.