<< June 26, 2008 >>
the kindness of strangers (yet again)

against all intuition, i've decided to go with comcast for internets. but shame on me if i'm gonna let them make any money off of renting me a cable modem. i was going to take the muni home, but decided to take a new bus line to a best buy nearish my apartment instead. i ordered it over the internet before i left, and figured it would be ready on time. i had change from lunch for bus fare, so headed out for an adventure.

except that i left the change for the bus on my desk. i don't have the thing that lets me in after 6:30, but i did have another dollar, so i'd just have to eat that fifty cents. lesson learned.

the bus finally came, and as i'm getting ready to board, a non-crazy guy asked if anyone had change for a five. i said i had a dollar, and he offered to trade me his $5 for it (ok, maybe he was a little crazy), but i said nah just take it. i boarded the bus and sat down in the back, because that's how you get good stories about crazy people.

so the guy sits down behind me, and hands me my dollar back. since i had put in $2, my extra $.50 counted towards his fare, and so, yeah. he introduced himself, saying his name was jacob. he does computer stuff and plays guitar a little bit.

my best buy experience was as awful as i had imagined. i need to find somewhere to eat.