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Friday, September 02, 2005

Some of you may recall my survey question to you all about ways to start a conversation with a girl on the bus who always has headphones on. Her and I have been on the same bus since I started taking the bus, back in May. We've always sorta traded glances and smiles, but nothing more. Well. This morning, as I'm walking down the street and around the corner to the second bus stop on my way to work and I see her standing in the bus stop. Okay, that's normal enough. So I walk down Portage to the stop and as I usually do, read the front pages of the newspapers in the dispensers. I look up and notice that she's gone, then glance towards the street and see that my (and her) bus had arrived! Luckily it was stopped at the red light there. I hopped on, and walked to the back of the bus to sit in my normal seat. Now usually her and I sit at the back of the bus, on two of the opposite-facing seats. Today however she sat in a regular seat (these details are important, as will be explained later). The bus gets going, and I notice that she's not wearing headphones. A few stops go by, and eventually the seat directly infront of her becomes vacant. So, I actually get up and plop down on the seat infront of her, turn around and introduce myself (anyone who knows me will know that's a fair step for me). I had resolved to introduce myself to her and possible arrange for another meeting next week, as it'd be my last week on the bus. So we got to talking, and apprently she was glad that I said hi, becaus as it turns out, in the course of the conversation with her on the bus she mentioned that today was her last day.
So, back to the details I mentioned were important. 1) Had the light been green, and I ended up missing the bus, none of this would have happened. 2) Had we taken our normal seats, it would have been much more difficult to start a conversation, as we'd be sitting facing each other across the aisle down the centre of the bus. Also, the back of the bus is much noisier. 3) If I would have waited until next week, she would have been gone, and I probably would have never seen her again.
So we traded numbers, and she dropped by my office at the bank later that afternoon after doing some banking, and we set up some time to play pool. I'm soooo bad at pool it's not even funny.

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