The Adventures of George - That One Bus Ride
I know this guy named George. I swear he has to be the luckiest guy I know. Let me tell you a little bit about him. He's pretty average, about 5 '7", dirty blonde hair, blue eyes, a few extra pounds that don't show much unless you happened to see him with his shirt off. We're not related (George is my last name, and it's his first name.) I don't know what he's packing in those jeans he likes to wear, but I swear that thing has a good luck charm on it. Let me give you an example...
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George was on a bus, stuck in the very back seat on the driver's side and, from the sound of it, right over the engine of the bus. This was not where he was supposed to be, and he was not happy about it. He was supposed to be in the Roomette that he had purchased for his trip on the train. The train engine had broken down about 20 miles from the station where he got on, and now he was on the train company bus headed for the next stop on his trip. To top it off, the heaters on the bus had yet to warm up, so everyone was bundled up on top of being packed in like sardines. This was not an auspicious beginning to his vacation.
Next to him was a woman who had the misfortune of having been the last person to get on the bus, and the inside seat by him was the only one left. George had politely offered her the aisle seat (even though it would have set his claustrophobia off big time to sit by the window) and she had refused. Now, 15 minutes into a projected 90 minute bus ride, they rode along in a companionable silence. His seatmate, Caroline she had said her name was after getting settled in, had a small blanket over her lap and her eyes were closed. She was a strawberry blonde with hazel eyes, shorter than him by a couple of inches, and looked to be a bit overweight, just like him. She was also slouched down a little and appeared to be trying to settle in for a nap.
George had his hands in his lap and his head down, trying to catch a quick nap when he felt her leg bump into him. Thinking that he was probably man-spreading, he closed his legs a bit and tried again to go to sleep. He could tell that she was moving around a bit and cracked his left eye open just enough to see what was going on without lifting his head. Her legs were now crossed, right over left, and her right leg was steadily moving up and down and rubbing against her left leg, not quickly but not slowly either. George put it down to nerves and closed his eyes again and tried to doze, slowly fading out of consciousness.