It was
around lunch and we were starving.
The kiosk at the bus station in Viborg had cheap Oreos and Kim’s chips,
so we bought those to snack on. Many people were waiting for the bus to
Aalborg, and some of them were annoyed that the bus was late. We overheard
someone say “I hate these busses” to
a friend. “Yeah, they make me mad too” we
heard the friend reply. Finally, the bus was arriving and while we stood in
line to enter the bus, a man dressed up as the famous pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow,
hurriedly ran towards the line. He
smelled a lot of garlic. While we
were driving around Viborg, we drove through a suburban
area with many “Private Property”
signs, as a mother said to her child “hey,
look at the doggy”. It was kind of funny because the dog was not in a leash
and behind it there was sign with a pictogram of dog and the text “Only in Leash” beneath it. A teenager
on the bus was playing a shooting game on his PSP. On the screen, it looked
like he was using a MAC-10 to shoot some
weird pelican monsters. A couple of
seats over, a hipster girl was reading The
Dying Earth by Jack Vance, and across from her a carpenter with a bag full
of nails, screws and a hammer was eating from a small
container. It looked like raw red onions
and sweet potato. On our journey
towards the Kennedy arcade, we saw
herd of swans flying towards a lake
the size of Jupiter. In Aalborg, as
our driver kept right, we saw a
group of kids spray-painting a picture of Mona
Lisa on a building. When we got out off the bus, the carpenter turned to us
and asked “is there a hobby store
around? You know for cardboard and um...”, but we did not catch what he was
saying, because we were in such awe of Aalborg. It was so beautiful.
Mostly a bit too random and underdeveloped. The most interesting thing could have been the Jack Sparrow character, but your travelers wasted an opportunity to get an exotic encounter and some local color into the text. The ending is a bit of an anti-climax...
ReplyDeleteThe ingredients could easily have been more creatively used (lists - I fucking hate them!) and better integrated. "A lake the size of Jupiter" is a good example of how to do it more interestingly.