Portland has a really good public transportation. It is kind of a model city for other cities that want to start public transportation systems or just improve systems they already have. We have light rail. We have Tri-Met buses that often leave only fifteen minutes apart. Once in downtown in Portland they have fareless square where you can go anywhere downtown for free. For seniors there is Ride Connections & The Lift. Free for seniors but they accept donations.
My mom will be 92 next month. She uses a walker. Has survived four heart attacks and four strokes. Has an amazing mind. She reads a book a week. Does all the puzzles in the morning paper. Beats me at Scrabble. But she is scared to take the bus. I've been trying to get her to take the bus because it will increase her independence. If something happens to me she won't become a shut in. Not that I expect anything to happen to me but we never know. So I got Mom to agree to take the bus if I go with her. Short trip first. Longer trip second. The short trip went well so we decided on a littler longer trip and that is when it happened.
The bus was fairly full.There was one man I'm guessing that was in his seventies and no doubt he had spent the morning tipping a few. He wasn't really drunk, just happily tipsy. Half way through the trip we stopped and picked up a lady probably in her eighties. She was carrying a bag that was sort of overflowing of oranges. When she first got on the bus a couple of oranges fell off of her sack. Whenever she bent over to pick up one of the oranges she passed gas. Bend over, pickup orange, POW. Did that three or four times. The tipsy guy shouted "That's right lady, if you can't pickem up shoot them." The whole bus busted out laughing, the driver had to pull over because he couldn't drive with tears in his eyes. After we all got our composure back of course we helped the lady. One woman, obviously always prepared, had a sack in her purse and gave it to the lady to put the overflowed oranges in.
That is it for the day.
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