I'm sitting on a greyhound bus, after spending the night in a greyhound bus station, and wishing I was in an airplane! The guy sitting next to me is a big man that falls toward me when he sleeps. I feel like I'm in a trash compactor. Every time we make a right turn the air is squeezed out of my lungs. This guy is at least 6' 3" and 375 lbs! Not that I'm poking fun at his size, but he really is crushing me! Then you have the "mom", I use that term losely, two seats back who is yelling and cussing at her infant. She looks, and smells like she crawled out of a hole in back of the local sewer plant. I'm not trying to be mean, just honest. Oh wow, Myron(the guy sitting with me) just went to the rest room, I can move now and breath! He's really a nice guy, but I wish he had a seat to himself. The seat in front of me is occupied by a good mother and her son Ian. Ian is 6 and has decided he wants me to be his dad. He's a cute kid with one heck of a personality! He and his mom were stranded in the bus station last night as well. I told him I had a girlfriend and he said that she wouldn't mind it if I liked his mom anyway! Kids, they say the darndest things to embarrass their parents! His poor mom couldn't get him to go to sleep, but it was good because he kept me company. I love kids! Then we have the idiot, I use that term firmly, in the seat behnd me. He and the other idiot sitting with him have had loud conversations about subjects like having his last two ribs taken out so he can give himself oral sex! The one topic that has "blood shooting out of my eyes", to coin a phrase from Glen Beck, is his supposed tour of duty in the middle east. He talks about hunting and killing men in Irac like it's a video game! As a Marine I take severe offence to him! First of all he is in the Air Force and was not a ground and pound infantryman! Second, his stories are absolute bull because that is not the way house to house combat is done! Third, he talks about Marines in a way that lends to the misconseptions of war and those who serve in it! It is dishonorable to talk about how you killed a man that was trying to kill you in order to try to impress the "mom" in the seat beind you, hoping you can get laid! As they all sit behind me cussing, talking about sex and killing like it was a way of life, I feel sorry for them. I realize that they just don't get it. They don't understand that this life is more than physical, and that the physial side of this life will bring pain and misery when not controled. They are in a lost and fallen state and are desperately looking for answers and direction. I remember being in that state myself. Looking for relief anywhere I could find it. I thank The Lord that I am not in the same place as these people, just on the same bus.

Tags: War Bus Dishonorable Physical

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