Friday, February 7, 2014

to run or not to run

I was waiting for the bus this morning, standing where my street hits the main street.
The bus driver must have been pre-occupied ( they often have long and emotional calls on the phone ) so it didn't stop but a fair ways away when the driver realized that I was there waving my arms frantically.

I jogged as best a septuagenarian can to get to the bus not wishing to make the passengers suffer from a long wait, and got on the bus and all was well when I got a seat and finally caught my breath.

And then I noticed that at the stops where people were waiting for the bus, and mostly gringos and mostly in my age bracket, none of them were jogging to get on the bus,  quite the contrary. They all seemed to take their time getting on, counting pesos and slowly making it down the aisle to a a seat.
What, I wondered, what in my make-up makes me think that I have to be so concerned about others?

Nobody else is.

In the future, if the bus decides to stop a distance away from me, I shall walk, composedly and with dignity, to the bus and get on without risking a heart attack from unseemly jogging.

After all, the bus is here to serve me, not the other way around, or is that too Gringo-ish for Mexico?

4 comments:

Albin said...

I'm so glad to see that you are back on the blog. I just can't figure out why I'm the only one writing comments. It stresses me that I get the feeling that I have to comment to make you keep blogging. I love your blogs.

Erik in PMI said...

I agree with Albin !SOOOOOO good to have you back!

Albin said...

And "puff" away he went Again! Alan - please com back!

Cindy said...

Missed hearing from you too!