"Do you hear that sound? That's your yarn...it's crying"~ Magenta Sequins

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

an Open Letter to the Incredibly Hot Construction Workers/Electricians/Carpenters/Plumbers Who Ride the Express Bus at 5:30 am

hi fellas. how you doin?
i get that you work hard; i do.
i see you every morning, en masse, wearing your tight jeans with the rips at the knees, tool belts and various union t-shirts; clutching your bags of tools, your NY Posts and steaming cups of Bagel Barn coffee. You've got that macho "i can build a house with my bare and calloused hands" look on your tired faces. you do seem tired; very, very tired.
apparently, you're so tired that you need the entire bus ride to sleep. that, in and of itself, is fine. i'm sure you work very hard, hammering nails and cutting boards, fixing pipes and rewiring things. collectively, i give you alot of credit. i greatly admire those who can use their hands as something other than a showcase for rings, since i can't change the batteries in my Wii remote without help and the only building material i can use effectively is Lego.
what i can't quite grasp, though, is why you feel the need to recline your seats on the bus, horizontally. as someone who sits in his seat without any recline at all, i'm mystified that you can ride the bus on your back, comfortably, but to each his own, right?i've got to give you credit though: it seems that in your quest for comfort, you're able to break the reclining mechanism, in almost all the seats on the bus, with such effectiveness that their natural ability to recline only a little, are completely overridden to allow a total recline. concurrently, i'm not sure if you're aware of the limited amount of space which we bus riders share, but reclining your seat to such a degree severely limits the amount of leg room the person behind you has. it's just something i thought i'd point out...an observation, if you will.
anyway, i just thought i'd let you know that as much as i'd love to have your head(s) buried in my lap or even get into our mouths, having you in the denitst-patient position is not what i had in mind. besides, 1st thing in the morning is not a good time for me...i need my coffee 1st.

"All those boys/With fascinating fingers/Working creating/Touching their tools"~ My Spine (Bjork)

3 comments:

The Sweet Family said...

OMG, I absolutely love reading your blog. A lurker some would call me. However, after reading this post, I felt I should say hello and how much I enjoy reading you.

ryan charisma said...

a good attack of sneezing would solve this issue.

A Lewis said...

What? You're complaining about hot worker construction guys reclining fully into your lap? What do you want? A Lap dance instead?

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