Real messages received on my cellphone from the workaday commute on board a variety of Dushanbe marshrutkas (and sometimes regular buses):"Tajik dude next to me on bus has barn door wide open."
Sent: 12-May-2009 17:33:01
"Ride home is always so annoying. Bus just stands still waiting for passengers. %$#^&?! barker on bus keeps yelling '8 bus! 8 bus to the airport!' as if no one in %?$*#^! Zarafshon has seen a *&%$!?@ 8 bus before."
Sent: 19-June-2009 18:48:19
"On new marshrutka. Crazy direction. We'll see if I make it."
Sent: 25-June-2009 18:41:28
"Marshrutka just got pulled over. Great."
Sent: 30-June-2009 18:56:11
"Tajik transport trifecta: woman with 6 kids on her lap (paid only 1 Somoni), loud terrible Tajik pop, and old dude spitting nos on the floor."
[Editor's note: I believe this one was hypothetical, in an SMS contest to see who could think of the best Tajik transport trifecta.]
Sent: 6-Aug-2009 08:18:33
"My marshrutka driver is 14. Scary."
Sent: 2-Sept-2009 08:18:48
"Very stinky woman next to me on marshrutka. Glad to know funk knows no gender boundaries."
Sent: 2-Sept-2009 18:14:17
"Marshrutka ran out of gas. Tajik. Driver had extra RC cola bottle of gas in back. Even more Tajik."
Sent: 4-Sept-2009 08:16:47
1 comment:
Ha!
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