Monday, January 16, 2006

The "Weed" Woman


After some fuss on the bus we drove off picking up people off the streets. This is when we realise that we have lost a passanger. Apparently there is a guy that was supposed to board but didn't. SO the water boy is on the phone trying to track the missing passanger. Finally when they locate him, we found out that he has arrived to the bus station late. So the water boy tells him to catch a cab to a particular point for him to board the bus.

The bus driver is quite shitty and states that if he can't be online then we should leave without him as he is holding up the trip. While this fuss is going on we manage to stop by the side of the road when to pick up this guy's parents. This is the moment one will remember forever.

We watch as this woman climbs onto the bus and plants herself across the aisle from us. At the time we didn't really think anything of it but soon we realised that our obsession grew rapidly. This woman starts to unpack her gear onto the little table in front of her. This is when we notice that she pulls out this tissue from her handbag. We watch in amazement as she opens her tissue to reveal a stack of leaves and weeds. She picks up one of her weeds and sniffs it and then places it back in her tissue collection.

I'm speechless as I'm watching her. This is when some inconsiderate person whispers in my ear "Is it pot?" Biting my lip not to laugh, we soon realise we need a picture of our "Weed Woman".

While we are trying hard not to laugh at the WEED WOMAN, the lost passenger finally makes an appearance. He strolls onto the bus and we are all grateful that we can now start out journey.

We continue along the way until we stop for a pit stop. We jump off the bus and return back before most people so we plant ourselves down in our seats. We watch as the "Weed Woman" strolls onto the bus with a handful of weeds and plants again. She sits in her seat and sniffs them and places them one by one in her tissue. We look at each other thinking what the ???. What is this woman on?

The bus loads up with like another 50 people. I stick out my head into into the walk way to see that people are pratically sitting on top of one another. They have once again over booked the bus. This woman a few seats from us had 3 kids sitting on her lap and the poor waterboy spent 3 hours standing because he had to give his seat to someone.

The trip continued and the "Weed Woman" took everything the waterboy offered. I think she had like 4 cups of coke, tea, coffee, pretzels and a litre of water. By that time I was ready to pee for her. What kind of a bladder does that woman have. If I drank all of that I would be screaming to pee.

We approach the border of Marmaris, when the bus driver stops for a security check. The bus driver jumps off the bus to approach the soldier. They both climb onto the bus and the soldier demands to see everyone's passport or ID's. We reach for our passports when he starts to collect them. For some reason he skips all the girls and only collects the guys. I still don't know why.

The soldier collects all the passports and ID's and jumps off the bus, leaving us behind waiting for him to return.

This is when our "Weed Woman" decides to jump off the bus for some fresh air. We watch her as she strolls off the bus searching like an alcoholic. She manages to spot some plant on the ground to which she reaches out to and rip apart.

She manages to rip something off it to sniff. She manages to satisfy her desire while reaching for her tissue. For a minute we thought she was going to store her new weed in the tissue when she spots the soldier returning to the bus.

In a mad panic she quickly throws all her plants and weeds onto the ground before making a run for the bus. This is when she runs smack bang into the soldier when they are both trying to enter the bus. The Soldier goes flying almost about to crack open his head. She leaves him standing in front of the door practically brain damaged when she jumps onto the bus to take her seat. She sits there drinking her water as if nothing has happened. To her dislike she has lost her plant collection.

The soldier hands back our passports and ID cards and we continue with our journey.

Welcome to Marmaris..........................

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