the casino bus

"My daughter, she's a french professor, and she's not even nice. All that education, and she's not even nice. I hate her." Two women behind me chatted, and I eaves dropped as the elderly Asian gentlemen on my left had rejected all attempts at conversation.

Dressed in what I thought would pass for casino attire, I was the youngest person on the bus by a good twenty-five years.I had only been to casinos in Las Vegas, so the low cut black shirt and unkept hair only made a few men and a security card think i was a prostitute. I wasn't even wearing make-up, but then again, what would a young woman be doing hanging out at spirit mountain casino on Tuesday morning, not really gambling. Waiting for my friend to pick me up so I could visit her at the Sitka center, I was, but as the $5 round trip bus is only supposed to be for Casino patrons, i didn't want to openly admit this. As it was, her car blew up on the way to get me, so I was destined to spend my day there until the return bus left. Greyhound doesn't even service the Oregon coast. I ate a truly digusting hamburger that came with guacamole in a little plastic sealed packet produced by Avo-king International, Inc.

I climbed back on the bus and returned to my seat. I asked the same man "Did you win anything?"
"$200!" he replied, and turned his back to me.
"My kids worry that I'm spending all my money at the casino, but I'll never stop coming. Never!" The ladies resumed their conversation, as if we had never left the bus.
"I have two kids, and they are so different from one another"
"Tell me about it. I have four- two I have a good time with, and the other two I don't even love. When I had my fourth baby, the doctor said it was the most beautiful birth he had ever seen."
"Is that right?"
"I guess with four births in five years, that fourth one just slid right out."
"Wow, four in five years, that must have been hard on your body."
"It was hard on my boobs!"
"Oh, you did that, did you."
"They say it makes them healthier, and smarter. This was true for me. My kids were all well behaved, not like today. Once I was in a deprtment store, and my kids didn't make a peep- didn't touch anything, and later isaid you were so well-behaved, and they said because we know better. that was the biggest compliment to me, that they knew better."

I felt so sorry for the rwo she didn't love, but maybe they didn't love her either.