Perfectly Normal Bus Stories

You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus” the people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about. I took the bus for three years when I lived in Honolulu and haven't lived anywhere with even usable public transit since, but in those three years I had dozens of utterly bizarre experiences that were also Perfectly Normal. This is because the human condition is vast and also Very fucking Weird. Kid one the bus next to me whose backpack starts moving and it turns out he's got three chickens and a painted turtle he caught in there. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been catching small game and transporting it home in whatever they had since we invented bags to put chickens and turtles in.

A screenshot of a social media thread about how people’s ideas of “normal” depend on their frame of reference. The punchline is a story about a child on a bus carrying three chickens and a painted turtle in his moving backpack, presented as bizarre but perfectly normal human behavior. People send it as a reaction to sheltered attitudes, unusual everyday experiences, or the strange variety of human life.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 4806 2022-12-28