Today, I was getting ready to perform a speech in anthropology on the globalization of public transportation and how it brings cultures together. On the bus ride there, the girls behind me were discussing ways to hide their track marks after injecting. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I caught the train into the city. Halfway there some kids hopped on smelling of marijuana and alcohol. Their topic of discussion? How much pubic hair they had. FML
Today, while on the bus, I started a conversation with the person next to me. After a little back and forth, she finally said, "Do you think people will stop talking to me if I say I have AIDS?" FML
Today, I was faced with the inevitable horrible circumstances which lead me to put in a tampon on a moving city bus. FML
Today, I was on the bus. I heard a click right before something small hit my cheek. I looked over to see the lady next to me cutting her long, dirty fingernails. The bus was too crowded to move and It was a 20 minute ride to work. FML
Today, while on the bus, I had to stand as all the seats were taken. I was standing behind a group of small girls who were messing around with their bags. As they were swinging them, one hit me square in the nuts with her elbow. The girl said, “Wise up, I hardly touched you.” I missed my stop. FML
Today, I was sitting on the bus when a large woman with what seemed like the flu came to sit beside me. After snorting hideously for five minutes, she picked up her scarf, blew her nose into it, and dropped it. It fell on my lap. When I stood up to leave the bus, there were streaks of snot on my new skirt. FML
Today, a woman who badly needed to change her incontinence pad sat next to me on the bus. I could smell it through my mask. FML
Today, as I walked on to the bus, the girl I liked whispered something to her friend. Curious, I asked what was so funny. She said she never realized that when I got on, I shook the bus. FML
Today, I was giving an anti-drugs speech to a group of ninth graders. I got onto the topic of trafficking from problem countries and asked a student to point out Mexico City on a map. He hesitated a few seconds before pointing at Canada. What the hell has the education system come to? FML
Today, I got off a long shift and went to the bus stop. Upon arrival, I saw a girl giving a guy a blowjob. Disgusted, I tried to avoid them and sat on the bench to wait. The girl popped up angrily and looked over at me. "Can't you give us some privacy?!" This is the only bus stop nearby. FML
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dirtyfivethirty 0
Anthropology is the study of human evolution, biologically and culturally...so this girl wants to give a speech about how buses and such help bring people of all cultures and lifestyles together. On a public bus, on the way to her class, two heroin addicts are discussing hiding their vein scars. Talk about mixing cultures. If you don't get it now, then fyl.
Joshoa123 16
I bet that poked a few holes in your logic.
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Comments (114)
marcranger 29
Maybe they were diabetics?
Nok27 1
You get track marks from repeatedly inserting a needle into the same vein. You don't get that with insulin.
KennyMcCrmick322 0
And now you've learned The culture of druggies....
chelseaaababyyy 17
how nice..
Calyx_fml 22
OP should talk about that experience in the speech. It's relevant and real.
bfsd42 20
There's no fml here. Op is clearly prejudiced towards drug users. Does she think that the drug culture should not be involved in her list of cultures who intermix on the bus? F the drug users life for being negatively judged by op.
GoArmy6624 7
Drugs are bad, Mmmkay?
KennyMcCrmick322 0
Haha best post! Wish I thought of it XD
Mach10 0
Nah, I felt it was more a commentary on globalization as a culturally unifying force--and the. Being presented with a clear example of it being a cultural disease vector before your speech might be considered distracting. Like presenting a pill that cures cancer to a panel of doctors, only to be told in the hall outside the auditorium that half of your test subjects that were cured of cancer spontaneously developed explosive ghonorrhea. An interesting dichotomy if there ever was one...
TheDrifter 24
I fail to see how one can globalize a bus system, but I never really did understand all that lefty "let's all live like peasants" nonsense anyhow. YDI for advocating any lifestyle that requires the use of public transit.
brendonuriepatd 8
Being really young (13) and gone to private catholic school none of my friends have
a_nutritionist 10
@88 for once you and i agree on something. that said, this was easy to interpret, so i dont understand how you had to ask the question in the first place.