Bus

     Our younger daughter has been making use of her Compass card, accessing public transportation with friends and making her way to the bigger malls adjacent to our community. This has gone well until when on the bus the other day, she caught the eye of a beer swilling fellow who thought her brief and polite acknowledgement of his staring at her was an invitation for further contact. This was a guy who was probably in his thirties; our daughter though tall, is obviously fourteen or fifteen years old. After pawing furiously through his over-sized lunch box this man produced a scribbled note which our daughter refused to accept. He was a stranger after all. He then dropped it into her lap and then jumped off the bus at the next stop. The note contained his name and phone number and instructions for our daughter to "text me QT". Such a poet.
     Needless to say, my husband and I were appalled. Fortunately there was an older gentlemen on the bus who witnessed this exchange and expressed his dismay with the episode. We are obviously not sure if this guy had had a few too many and was not seeing straight or he actually believed that our daughter might follow up on his invitation. Unfortunately after this experience, she will probably not be inspired to make any kind of eye contact with anyone on the bus ever again, which is a loss for everyone. Needless to say, I have retained his contact information for future reference. Next time someone a little more his age and a lot less cute will certainly be texting him back.