austin by day, mexico by night
"Oh-my-gosh!
You want me to what?!
You're going where at 1:15 in the morning from a ghetto-east-side-no-name-bus-depot?"
So I am sitting in the living room minding my own business around 11pm in my scrubs when my housemate's cellphone rings. After a few minutes she emerges from her room in a panic. Runs over to me and falls on her knees and buries her head into the couch cushion:
"Emily, I am in a perdicament. This ESL student from Singapore wants me to pick her up at a bus station and drive her to her apartment to get her passport then promptly back to the bus station. She is going to Mexico by herself. What should I do!? Ahh-ahaha!"
"First of all, I am not letting you go to east Austin at this time of night, especially not in your chitty-chitty-bang-bang FT-er car. Second of all, this student is out-of-her-mind! Mexico at one in the morning on a make-shift bus station by herself?! She doesn't even speak Spanish. What is she thinking?! Why~!? God, why!? Do we really want to condone this?"
After I throw on my bright orange polyester jacket and grab my cellphone, wallet, and keys we jump in my slightly-more-fit-chitty-chitty-bang-bang FT-er car and head off to lovely Airport Blvd. in East Austin in the wee hours of the night. Need I say more?
On the ride there more crazy info is unveiled. This "student" is a single woman about 35 AND she has only bought a one-way ticket. Again, what is wrong with this woman? I keep thinking, "If she had been planning this trip why wouldn't she have her passport with her? why would she only buy a one-way-ticket? and what is with traveling alone? Hmmm."
You want me to what?!
You're going where at 1:15 in the morning from a ghetto-east-side-no-name-bus-depot?"
So I am sitting in the living room minding my own business around 11pm in my scrubs when my housemate's cellphone rings. After a few minutes she emerges from her room in a panic. Runs over to me and falls on her knees and buries her head into the couch cushion:
"Emily, I am in a perdicament. This ESL student from Singapore wants me to pick her up at a bus station and drive her to her apartment to get her passport then promptly back to the bus station. She is going to Mexico by herself. What should I do!? Ahh-ahaha!"
"First of all, I am not letting you go to east Austin at this time of night, especially not in your chitty-chitty-bang-bang FT-er car. Second of all, this student is out-of-her-mind! Mexico at one in the morning on a make-shift bus station by herself?! She doesn't even speak Spanish. What is she thinking?! Why~!? God, why!? Do we really want to condone this?"
After I throw on my bright orange polyester jacket and grab my cellphone, wallet, and keys we jump in my slightly-more-fit-chitty-chitty-bang-bang FT-er car and head off to lovely Airport Blvd. in East Austin in the wee hours of the night. Need I say more?
On the ride there more crazy info is unveiled. This "student" is a single woman about 35 AND she has only bought a one-way ticket. Again, what is wrong with this woman? I keep thinking, "If she had been planning this trip why wouldn't she have her passport with her? why would she only buy a one-way-ticket? and what is with traveling alone? Hmmm."
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