Games to Play on Transit #9

You won't get to play this one often, but I just did.

Watch a couple of suburban yahoos seriously offend an older east Indian man (I missed the offending comment or action).

Listen as the old man seriously cusses out the yahoos with some "colourfully" translated insults.

Watch as one of the yahoos gets up and spits at the old man, precipitating a full-blown fist-fight.

At this point the driver pulls over and puts the yahoos off the bus. One of the yahoos decides to swing around and take a Parthian shot at the old man that nearly knocks him down.

With the yahoos off the driver proceeds to the next stop where we sit and wait for about ten minutes as the Indian man uses the phone on the bus to talk to the police.

This part of the game ends with the driver telling everyone that the bus must now wait for the police to arrive and that anyone who wants to walk can get off. At this point the challenge is to decide whether it will be quicker to walk the last couple of kilometres through entirely unfamiliar suburban territory or wait in the cold and rain for the next bus.

Orienting myself by the cluster of tall buildings that surround the SkyTrain station I decided I could cut a diagonal faster. Turns out it was moot. As I was standing on the platform waiting for the train, people I recognized from the bus started arriving. By walking about two kilometres I beat them by about thirty seconds and we all ended up on the same train.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/691923.html