Notes about Busses

When riding a bus, first you must realize no bus ride is shorter than 3 hours, with some bus rides approaching times long enough to compete with the times of special Olympics distance runners. These buses are also approved by the National Busing Association. Once a year the NBA (not to be confused with the basketball guys whom plagiarized its initials from the previous association)(1) checks to confirm that your seat and the seat directly in front of you is broken. This is standard procedure and when you get on a bus you can be sure that it is NBA approved. Of course you do not immediately know that your seat is broken because you hesitate to recline your seat out of courtesy for the man behind you. But as the short and beefy Asian sits down in front of you and reclines his seat so far back that he can now make eye contact with you, you soon realize that the seat in front of you is definitely NBA approved. About an hour into the trip, when you think the tall black man behind you (who may be employed by the other NBA) is dozing off thinking about whatever large black men think about, you slowly try to recline your seat as to not wake the large black man. Holding down the button, you proceed to push back on your seat --it doesn’t budge. You push harder -- still nothing. As a last resort you push your feet up against the back of the Asian’s seat for more leverage, but you are no match for the NBA’s standards.