Bus Fare

Your drunken heroes Charles and Amerigo board a bus in San Francisco. They stumble into two seats facing the back of the bus, directly across from a man and his young son.

C: This is an awkward way to sit.

A: Yeah, you can't see where we're going, only where we've been.

C: Such is life.

The man notices them and chuckles out, "That's right." He looks down at his boy, over to our heroes, and back toward the front, jittery, waiting for our heroes to respond to him. But Charles is already looking out the window, and Amerigo is thinking about the route and the time, and both are waiting for the bus to just go.