A woman stepped off my bus this morning, across the street from the State Psychiatric Hospital.  I noticed her because she looks like someone I know, but wasn't.  The stoplight turned red when she got off, and she went towards the crosswalk and waited.  She didn't cross though, but instead walked slowly up and down the sidewalk a few hundred yards in either direction, staring intently across at the hospital as she did.  Then, just before the light turned green again, she got back on the bus.  "I just wanted to see what it looks like from out here," she told the bus driver, and she sat back down.  The bus driver tensed uncomfortably, and squinted at the road ahead.

Comments

[karla]

fine, i give up. crazies: 1, karla: 0. happy?

[Suki]

It's like "right in the bojangles", and "how do you like them apples", only worse. Much worse.

Why jesus, why? Havnt you punished us enough by not giving all males huge johnsons, and providing that Latvian minister's wife with a stuffed sloth???

[karla]

the word "crazy" is not in the above paragraph. read it again. i was only reporting what i saw, and no judgments were written or made.

i never even implied she was a patient there. perhaps she was the pastry chef, and had been working particularly long hours that week, and was relieved to finally get out of the kitchen? maybe she was an upholsterer from the west coast, and had heretofore only seen the interior of the building via teleconference, but never from the outside?

don't be so quick to jump to the conclusion she was "crazy" and a patient. sheesh.

what, are you paranoid?
oops.

xoxo

[akijikan]

OoOo boy.

More narrow-minded reaction to people who have been in a psychiatric facility.

I've been in a psychiatric facility and I am fine. I'm no threat to anyone or anything.

I wish people were less ignorant regarding psychiatric disorders and whatnot (not that I think this author in particular is ignorant in such matters, nor so narrowminded).

Just because you've been to psychiatric facility does not make you "crazy".

[datsun]

One of the things I kinda miss about life in the US was the crazy people on the bus.

Of course, being in a place where YOU'RE assumed to be the crazy person on the bus isn't always a bed of roses...

[j]

We should have a blog soley for bus people stories. My favorite queen mum story is that she was a with a group of students at a loch and she suddenly bent down and tilted her head so she was looking at the loch upside down. She then got all the students to mimick her (you don't say no to the queen mum). They stood there for several moments as she commented on how different and beautiful the view was from upside down.