I've seen several disturbing things this week.

It started on Tuesday - after a great day in class and at work, I was waiting for the bus. I heard screeching tires and look over at an intersection that is no more than 50 yards away. A college-aged guy and girl jump out of this huge Ford truck and run to the front of his truck. A woman comes running up the street from the other direction and disappears behind a bush which is blocking my view from whatever it is that appears to be lying on the ground in front of the truck.

I have reason to believe it was a person. I've never witnessed (or almost witnessed) such a horrific event. The guy who'd be driving looked like he was going to throw up, he kept taking off his hat and running his fingers through his hair. He was doubled over, like he was going to lose it - I really think he was crying. The girl with him kept putting her arm around him when he'd cover his face.

Then the police started coming - car after car - and 2 ambulances and a fire truck. It was awful. That's why I suspect it was a person. I was there for 15 minutes watching the scene until I just took off on foot for home. I couldn't wait for a bus - traffic was diverted and no bus would be coming.

I've been scanning headlines for a report of this, but have seen nothing. I just want to know if the person hit is okay.

So that was disturbing.

Then yesterday, I took a different bus than usual, the one that elderly and handicapped people from the home by BSHS are more likely to ride. There was an old woman sitting near the driver - talking loudly about some sort of political something-er-other that was on the night before. "He doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Heh heh." She stopped jabbering when the busdriver got up to secure a handicapped boy's wheelchair. And when this woman ceased talking, she began popping her lower teeth out and in, out and in - like middle school kids do with their retainers when they forget how disgusting that is. Subconscious - out and in - with the sucking in between. Oh gosh. It was sick. I couldn't stop staring.

My life is really never that boring. There are always things like this going.