A new driver enters the morning scene. Unlike the average cohorts of her contingency, she makes it a point to chirp out a, “Good morning,” in tones of slightly over the acceptable auditory level for such an early hour. Therefore in response, that enthusiastically and socially doused commuter visibly flinches mid-walk up the stairs to the meter. –Often, they appear as struck by a stage’s spotlight at unawares, totally confounded and startled at the driver’s piercing resonance.
Not long into the ride the driver’s voice can be ascertained through a purposefully displaced microphone of the bus’s COM. The voice slices through the cold and dense medium, generating an electrifying current in rapid succession, which discusses the to-be-determined-by-her-plan of the remaining portion of the route. The alleged receiver of such questioning happens to be a middle-age man in a camel-colored wool coat with a perpetual lean-forward posture. He is momentarily looked upon by a smattering of choice riders with piqued curiosity, but then always swiftly discounted; for those patrons’ attention are cast irrevocably elsewhere all too easily due to their viral short attention span.
“I’m sure glad I met you!” the driver barks loudly to the man in the camel wool coat.
She succeeds again in jolting practically the entire ridership from whatever squirming activity that encompasses their night-weary minds to some kind of attention, much like the ravings of a toddler during those periods of Earth’s rotation that are meant for dream induction rather than the harsh reality of waking moments.
“It’s going to be a great day,” a man with a cap of white hair declares. He sits in a side-facing row towards the front actively listening to the entire driver’s discourse.
“What?” Hot Glued Hay for Hair Lady asks him.
“I said it’s going to be a great day,” the man repeats with a smirk glancing in the direction of the canopy.
“Heh, heh, heh!” Hot Glued Hay for Hair Lady laughs with gusto in response, then shakes her head and returns to…
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Well, it's not coffee. But a louder-than-usual hello has got to wake you up in the morning.
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