BusFriend

This morning at WW lost 1.2 pds despite the fact that I started my period (sorry if is TMI) and ate out a couple of times this week.  I started this blog earlier in the week and haven't had the time to finish it until now.  I hope that it isn't too much of a rant.

There is a woman who I have been talking to this semester while waiting for the bus.  I know that I could walk to places, but there is an alternative lot, which is some distance away from campus and I'm not walking all the way down the hill to get there.  Anyways, we had a rather interesting conversation today that I wanted to share.

She is very sweet and we enjoy talking about school, especially one of the teachers we share (who I recently discovered has Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde syndrome).  My bus friend's personality is one that very much enjoys talking and if you know me you'll understand why it overpowers mine.  I spend the majority of our conversations nodding my head with random little insertions into the conversation, but I don't mind.  Today, I had a bit more to say while she was talking about her son and his girlfriend, who she doesn't like, and her nephew's girlfriend, who she also doesn't like.

I could understand at first why BusFriend didn't like his girlfriend because she was mean to her son and giving him the cold shoulder for a while--they're fine now.  But then she started talking about how her son would take forever to meet up with her so that the two of them could go home after their classes.  BusFriend told me that he would come out of Cherry, and then five minutes later she would.  And she's not stupid, she knows what they're carrying on and doing that's causing delays.

Likewise she doesn't like it when the two go out on a date for hours and hours.  Because, again, she knows what they're doing.

"Not necessarily...."

"Well, you know how--"

"My boyfriend and I haven't; we're saving that for marriage."

"Well, you're unique you know."

"..."

"You are, you're very unique. Is he very religious?"

"...we're both Christians." religious? and why did you use it so incredulously? I don't think I like this word; it has too many dark connotations. Christianity is believing that everyone has sinned and are doomed to go to Hell. That the only way out of that end is Christ's love, is the belief that He came in human form and died for our sins.

"Now you're the type of girl I'd want my son looking at. You'd make a good couple!"

"I'm not single."

"Well, I meant if you were. How long have you been together?"

"Three years next month."

"What?! That's way too long! You need to dump him and date new people! You need to get out there, one person isn't enough."

"I love my boyfriend, and we're planning on getting married after college." I'm blessed to have already found the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. Why on earth would I want to date other people?!

"Well, just wait until after college.  If you don't, use protection. Start taking the pill or something. Then again that doesn't always work; our protection broke! That's how I wound up forty-one and in college."

"Mmmm...."

Let's just say I was extra happy when the bus came that day... But at least it makes me think.  I mean, does everybody think that, if you have a significant other, you immediately and constantly hop into bed with them?  That I can't spend the day with my boyfriend and not have sex?  That you shouldn't keep your significant other for a long period of time, instead getting rid of them as soon as you can so that you can find new people and get in bed with them instead?

Current Pleasure Reading: still Umberto Eco's book
Current School Reading: Dante's "Inferno"
Currently listening to: "Lookin' for a Good Time" by Lady-A, "Closer" by Ne-Yo, "Colors of the Wind" by Marilyn Brynes, "Your Love" by Emma Burgess
To-Do Listy: Still scary, will hopefully be better after Tuesday