All Aboard!
How many Ukrainians/Americans/Etc. can you get in an 18 passenger van? Answer: as many as the van driver will stop and let on! Yesterday after leaving the church building we were on our way to Daffi to meet with Ira and Kathy. They were having coffee at Coffee Life (Americans think Star Bucks) and just discussing things that needed to be discussed. Anyway…there were no #53 vans, Murphy’s Law, but a #29 stopped at Kirova with all the 18 seats taken. In fact there were three already standing in the aisle when we got on. (hince the addition of “American” to the list of who would get on an already full van!!) In the next 15 minutes not one person got OFF of the van, but 12 more people got on. When we arrived at Daffi, sardined in the stairwell and the aisles, some people had to get off before WE could get off. Of course there was the obligatory drunk waiting at the van stop not wanting to let anyone off just in case he couldn’t get ON. I said excuse me and he said back to me, very loudly, “EXCUSE ME…EXCUSE ME…” Of course Rita just pushed us on by, and we shook off the wrinkles and moved on to Coffee Life. Apparently van #29 is very rare on a Saturday evening, and many people needed to go where it goes. That was proved out by the seven or eight people who got on when we exited, including the drunken couple who were so polite!
till later..,
