There's nothing like an early morning brawl on a bus. While it was short, it was long enough and loud enough to wake up anyone still sleeping. We had apparently turned around sometime around 5 to go back to where another bus had broken down. It was a sad sight. There was what seemed to be a decent crowd all standing outside of the bus in the early morning light, holding onto their luggage and looking like death. I turned to the guy next to me who we had picked up somewhere in the middle of NC and we both had the same look on our faces. The one like " ooh hell no, I know they not about to stuff all them people on the bus" look. I looked around and saw two empty seats in the back. Being the only caucasian on the bus I knew it wasn't going to be long before the $h^t hit the fan. While the Chinese bus drivers were frantically speaking to each other, the other passengers from the broken down bus started to board. One driver started waving his hands saying " move to the back! Go to back!" the two empty seats in the back went to two ladies while the rest of the passengers started shifting uneasily in the middle of the aisle. We were all thinking the same thing... what are they going to do with these people? I looked at the guy beside me and said " It's all a matter of time. Someone's about to crack." He laughed but I wasn't joking.
Finally, a guy crammed in the middle of the aisle started losing it, asking the drivers where they were going to go. I thought for sure this was it, HE was going to be the one that cracked. Meanwhile, the Chinese drivers were still babbling in Chinese and running from one bus to the other. All that stopped when one woman standing in the front went straight up ghetto on one of our passengers. Thinking back I don't know why I didn't pull out my cell phone and record it. The entire bus fell silent. I think we were all genuinely afraid to move at that point. Her conversation went something like this..
" BI*#H YOU BETTA SHUT THE F*%K UP!! I'LL CUT YOU B#$&H!! I'LL CUT CHU!! COME ON! LET'S TAKE IT OUTSIDE B*&%H! YOU NEED TO CALM DA F$%K DOWN!!
I thought we were all going to die. We were all staring wide eyed still unable to move or say anything. But things got REALLY entertaining when she turned her anger toward our little Chinese driver. All the color had drained from his face as he stood there and she began to berate him.
" I WANT MY MONEY BACK B$%*H! YOU SAID YOU GET ME TO NEW YORK AND I AIN'T IN NEW YORK! SOMEBODY BETTA GET ME MY GOD DAMN MONEY BACK!"
The look of terror on that poor man's face was priceless. I don't think he said a word back to her...she quite literally rendered him speechless. Then the other bus driver came in and started flailing his arms and yelling " Yes! We give you money! Get off bus! Get off bus!" But that wasn't good enough. She stomped her feet and started flailing her arms back saying " I'LL GET OFF THE BUS IF YOUGIMME MY MONEY." This went back and forth for at least a minute when finally the women gave up and stormed off the bus. The entire bus erupted with laughter the second her feet touched the ground. But I have to giver her some credit because we had found out later that the bus had broken down at 2 am. That means for 4 hours they were stranded there, waiting on our bus to come only to find out that only two of them were actually going to get a seat. I would like to think that if the same thing had happened to me there would be less arm flailing and curse words but when my ghetto comes out there's no telling.
Because we had turned around and stopped for at least 30 minutes in VA it meant we were off schedule. We were supposed to have gotten to NYC at 10:30 but didn't arrive till almost 12. As we approached the city I realized the magnitude of the situation. I had come here alone. I had NO idea where I was going once I got off the God forsaken, piss smelling bus. But as soon as we stopped I grabbed my backpack and took off, never looking back.
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