Travel Tricks
Our son Aaron used to ride the Greyhound buses home from Syracuse University
to Cleveland on semester breaks. Because he's rather tall and likes to have
space and privacy, he always tried to make sure no one sat next to him on
the bus, unless of course there were no other spaces available. Some of his
strategies may seem off the wall, but then our son has an off-the-wall
personality, and these strategies worked.
Aaron always dressed in black -- black trench coat, black trousers, black
turtleneck, black knee-length boots, black hat (in the cowboy or Australian
style) He often wore long purple or green plumes in his hat. He wears
chain mail links draped from the epaulettes on his trench coat and a lot of
Celtic medallions around his neck. I know this sounds even stranger, but
sometimes, he would hum and pretend to meditate (this really throws some
people).
Once, he had cooked a large beef roast the day before coming home and did
not want to leave it in his apartment, so he wrapped it in foil and ate it
by hand on the bus. Ready for an even stranger food technique? Once he
wore a couple of french fries behind his ears for the trip. But I guess the
weirdest thing he ever did was to wear his blue terrycloth bathrobe over his
clothes for the trip home (he said there wasn't room for it in his
suitcase). That trip, he also wore black lipstick and black fingernail
polish and my husband said he could hardly keep from laughing when he saw
Aaron come through the bus terminal doors and knew that no one had sat next
to him that time!
Diane
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