I try and give buses the right of way when they need to change lanes, but sometimes I think they try to be jerks. There is a situation that happens every so often with me and them. I need to turn right, so I get behind a bus in the right lane. Then the bus stops, for no apparent reason for an unknown period of time. Fine, so I change lanes to go around. Then the bus decides this will be a good time to start moving again. So here I am in the wrong lane, with a bus taking up all of the right lane. I can either continue ahead and get around the bus, but then I’ll miss my turn. What I should do is just wait for the bus, block traffic in my lane, until I can go into the right lane.
Instead I cut off the bus. Stupid, I know. But I’m going to think of it as a learning experience as to what not to do.
Anyway, I was driving home from work today (separate from the bus incidence) and listening to the radio. They were interviewing Douglas Coupland, and he sounded interesting. He was having a book reading tonight downtown. Having nothing better to do, I decided that it would be good to get out.
This was his first stop on his tour for his new book, “Eleanor Rigby”, so as he said, he was still fresh. He started reading it, but got bored after half a paragraph. He then went onto his work in progress, a sequel to Microserfs, called J-Pods. That was entertaining. It’s going to be hard to think of Ronald McDonald the same way now.
Mr. Coupland wasn’t that confident a speaker, and he did tend to go off into tangents during the Q&A. But still, it wasn’t a waste. I do want to read “Eleanor Rigby” now. It seems to deal with all the bad advice given to lonely people by those that have never been lonely. However, I’m going to wait for it to come out in paperback.