Thursday, July 24th, 2008
family portrait
by: summer allen (my sister)
I had a fantastic trip home to Ohio. The bus ride? Not so great. It’s hard to have high expectations when it comes to Greyhound though. I took the midnight bus down, which wasn’t so bad. The ride back? Icing on the cake to hell. I cannot even begin to describe the absurdity of the bus taking me from Dayton to Columbus. The driver had an incredibly violent movie playing on the small tvs dispersed throughout the bus. Plus the sound system ran through speakers that we, the passengers, could not control. So imagine full volume gun shots as one character shoots another character in the face. A couple of us were pleading with the driver to turn it off–there were small children on the bus. She never did. Once the movie ended, she turned up the radio, and my seatmates started to pop and clap along to “Apple Bottom Jeans.” The bus from Columbus to Pittsburgh: similar absurdity, different circus. The air conditioning did not work for the duration..on a 90-something degree day. You can let your imagination run from there.
Helped my sister, Jeremy, and Maddie move the last of their things out of the house. The house has been their home for six years, and it’s tough to say goodbye to such a great place. I’m excited that they’re building a new one, but sad to see the old ground go. New chapters beginning.
