I was particularly early at the bus stop this morning, trying to leave the party house before having to clean any shit up.
I am somewhat surly as I'm sleep deprived and slightly hung over. I have this habit of jiggling my leg all the time, this morning to an extreme extent as it was early and there were very few people around. One angry middle aged woman comes and sits next to me and says:
"Stop moving your legs like a madman!"
to which I reply: "It's involuntary, I have spastic nerve endings in my knees."
To my surprise, she didn't quite catch the sarcasm. She suddenly became overly empathetic, and handed me a $10 note in a "Oh you poor thing" kind of fashion. at this point I humour her; My bus comes quite early, so I stand up and walk to it in a ridiculous fashion, walking like a gorilla with parkinsons.
You gotta really earn your bus money these days.
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