Ira Glass kicks ass.

If you don’t listen to This American Life on NPR, you should. It’s a deliciously addictive radio show that airs every week, or, you can download podcasts on iTunes or at audible.com.

Anyway, I wonder if they have a show about riding the bus. I take the bus to work everyday and while riding the No. 13 downtown on Thursday morning, I was feeling a lot of sympathy for the bus driver. People were giving him attitude right and left. The worst incident was on lower Queen Anne at the corner of Queen Anne Ave and Denny, right near the Shell station. This teenage boy was trying to get on the bus after the driver had already pulled away from the stop but was stalled because of traffic. The kid pulled the bike rack down and started racking his bike. The driver started waving his hands, saying "No! No!". He got up to go stop him. As he did this, the kid then took his bike out of the rack and threw it about 10 feet onto the sidewalk, almost hitting a pedestrian. The pedestrian then confronted the teenager. It was fascinating! Who needs a video iPod when you can watch live, spontaneous acts of dysfunctional human behavior for the small price of a bus fare??

Gotta love public transportation.