Only With Erika...

Portland is full of crazy kids who belong to crazy parents, which is why I love Portland! Every time I go out with my friend Erika, we always meet someone ridiculous on the bus that makes all of our adventures amazing!

It all started last semester during Fall Break…

All of our friends thought that it would be cool if they went home for Fall Break, which left only Erikaand me at Cascade.
There was only one thing to do so we took advantage of our time and went on an adventure!! We adventured all day long, but as we waited for our bus that night our adventure hit its climax.

As we were waiting at the bus stop, Erika started talking about astrology signs. About 5 minutes AFTER we had finished talking about astrology this guy, around 20 years old or so that had apparently been listening to us, jumped into our conversation and started talking about water signs. It was totally random because I think we had moved on to a conversation about muffins or something and then this guy jumps in saying, “They used to have 13, but now there are 12 water signs!” After we figured out the subject of this new conversation we were apparently in, we all got on the bus and he sat right across from us. Although the details of this story make it absolutely ridiculous (wow, I sure use that word a lot), I will cut to the point. Anyway, this guy was crazy, he went on about water signs, then Satan, then china and then back to Satan and back to water signs. He switched subjects about every 4 seconds while he rocked back and forth rubbing his arms and hands. While in the midst of this he starts shouting at us, “Do I exist to you? Do I mean anything to you? Do I exist to you?” So, to calm him down I replied, “Yes of course you do.” We thought that would calm him down, but we were far from that. He started talking about how Satan and the moon came together on Christmas to make pizza or something and then started shouting the same thing over and over again. About 20 minutes later we reached his bus stop and as he proceeded to get off he offered me gum. I politely said “No thank you,” but he insisted that he was not a stranger, rather a good friend, and I should not refuse his generous offer of 2 pieces of gum. So I took them, and that was that.

Then, Erika and I went out again a few nights ago and met another interesting character on the bus. He was cool in the sense that he showed me these super hideous pants that he bought for his girlfriend and told me about how he was going to surprise her with them. During our conversation with this man, Erika’s sister called. This same man then began to shout at Erika saying (to her sister), “I hate you, I hate you!” A few minutes later, our new friend began to yell at everyone on the bus, asking if they had any weed. It really was a great day!... and then we saw him in Macy’s today.



Erika and I Before we met the pants man.




Erika and I (at Saturday Market), maybe this is why the astrology man kept talking to us?