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November 06, 2005
a story
This is the sort of fascinating conversation you can hear while standing around on UGA campus on a September afternoon. That's right, I overheard this conversation back in September and couldn't get arsed to tell y'all about it, but suddenly felt the need to tell it now. Clearly I need some kind of, you know, life. Or something.
So. Standing at the bus stop across from the student centre in the blasting heat, and two silly girls come and take up positions perilously close to my own personal space, on account of I'm standing in the only square foot of shade and it's a hundred and fifty degrees outside.
Silly Girl #1: It's soooo hot.
Silly Girl #2: Oh yeah, it's soooo sooooooo hot. And, there's no shade! (Silly Girl #2 is very observant)
SG #1: They should have left some big oak trees in when they built that bus stop.
SG #2: Oh, there used to be trees?
SG #1: I don't know. But if there were, they should have left some.
SG #2: Yeah! Or they should have put in a big fan or something.
Because if they were going to take out all the trees (which may or may not have been there) the least they could have done was put in a giant fan. Outside, blowing on the bus stop. I mean, come on. That's just so practical, after all.
SG #1 was trying to get downtown, and SG #2 advised her to get on the North/South bus. Fifteen minutes later the bus comes around again and off steps SG #1, walking back over to SG #2 and saying, "that bus doesn't go downtown!". Because it turns and doubles back a block from Broad Street, so to get downtown you would actually have to get off and walk a block. Instead, she stayed on the bus and came all the way back around. The saddest part is, the bus went near downtown, then came back past here in the other direction, but she stayed on for the whole circiut and went past us twice.
Then SG #1 says: All I want is to get a coffee! (giggle)
SG #2: There's a coffeeshop in the student centre.
SG #1: Yeah, but I want Starbucks!
People. The Starbucks is a FIVE MINUTE WALK from where we are standing. And she continued to stand there, waiting for a bus downtown.
Posted by jodi at November 6, 2005 10:04 PM | categories: athens : dumbass
Comments
Oh, lord. I went to UGA, and worked there an additional four years, so I know exacatackally where you were, and who the girls were. Probably not the same girls, granted... but then again, they just MIGHT wait on a bus for four years rather than walk uphill across North Campus. Ah, I miss Athens/I don't miss Athens.
Thanks for the nostalgia, and the giggle.
Posted by: anne at November 6, 2005 11:55 PM
Laughing so hard at SG1 and SG2. Silly girls indeed.
Posted by: peggy at November 6, 2005 11:59 PM
wow. thanks for that little burst of self-confidence (as in, other's stupidity makes me feel good).
for some damn reason, i don't get a little star by your name when you update, oh the laziness...
Posted by: jacey at November 7, 2005 08:19 AM
ooooooh! how deflating that that kind of public-transit-overheard conversation is way too familiar. makes me wonder how the hell they get into university....
Posted by: jae at November 7, 2005 01:54 PM
It is frightening to think that these girls are in college, but it makes one hopeful that such idiocy can be trained out of them.
When are you coming here for a slumber party? You might as well visit the rest of the U.S. Since you're down here anyway.
Posted by: Snowball at November 7, 2005 02:18 PM
For my birthday this year we had a dinner partay and we played croque(is that how you spell it?)in the back yard. It was a hot summer day and my man set up stadium box seating on the deck with a fan pointing at the seats. It was grand!
Posted by: Melly at November 7, 2005 06:01 PM
Oh, Canadian, let me explain something to you. See, you have all of those "leafs" in your homeland to keep you shaded and cool, but we Merkins like to cut down our trees to build suburban tracts of McMansions. Those silly girls are onto something. Electric fans outside in summer? Why not just go for full-on air conditioning? I'm writing to my city council to suggest central air be piped into the streets next summer.
Posted by: Jen at November 9, 2005 01:00 PM
At least you have the comfort of telling Peter that you came down here for intellectual stimulation.
Posted by: Cathi at November 10, 2005 06:15 PM