oh my god, like, so...

I had a nightmare glimpse - or rather whatever the equivalent of glimpse for hearing is - of a possible future on the bus home from work this evening. I deserve no sympathy; I should have ignored the rain and gone to work on my pushbike, but I didn't. On the way home home I stood near the back of the bus. A few stops along the route some people got off and others got on. Not one of the new passengers took a recently vacated seat next to a teenage schoolgirl. So, after a pause long enough to allow any other passenger to take the seat, I took it. Fuck me sideways I wish I hadn't. By the time I got off of the bus, probably around twenty minutes later, I was on the brink of stabbing myself in the ears with a pencil. Anything to block the inane nattering of of the girl I sat next to and her mate in the seat behind her. It was a breathless barrage of bollocks. I was in pain...and I all I could think was dear god, please, please, please don't let AJ grow up into her.