So after missing my morning bus a few times because I am NOT a morning person and very lazy with getting ready on time...I discovered that the AU shuttle picks up near my house and goes to the Metro. Lucky for me, I can still pass for a college student (lets be honest, I can still pass for a high school student), So I've started taking the shuttle in the morning.. the best part is that its FREE. YAY!
Well this morning, something happened that would only happen in college and made my morning! There was a girl, looked to be about 19. She had a low cut, short red dress on and looked a little disheveled. I didn't think much of it until I sat down a few seats behind her and looked again. What caught my eye was that she was BAREFOOT. I thought to myself, "Oh. My. Gosh. How gross." These buses aren't particularly clean and they're kind of rickety. All I could do was stare and her brown, dirty feet on the floor.
I started looking around at the other people on the bus to see if anyone else had noticed this, but I apparently was alone in my horror. When we got to her stop, she stumbled up and briefly lost her balance, leading me to the assumption that she was probably still drunk (at 7:45am on a Thursday). I watched her, expecting to see wedges or heels in her hands, but all she had with her was a brown handbag. NO SHOES anywhere in sight. She proceeded to strut down the aisle of the bus and exit and walked (stumbled) down the street, hopefully to her house.
The best part was that at the front of the bus were students wearing matching red t-shirts on some kind of "get to know DC tour", maybe part of AU orientation? All you could hear was them muttering, "ohmygod, she isn't wearing shoes!" or "Was that girl barefoot??!" or "What was that girl doing?"
I wanted to look at all of them and say, "Welcome to College--the only time in your life when behavior like this is excusable." But I didn't. I just smirked to myself and remembered doing the walk of shame myself on occasion. At least in Tallahassee you didn't have to use public transportation to get home!
I was left with this question-- Where on earth was that poor girl's shoes?! Why did she leave in such a hurry that she had a Dane Cook moment and said, "Nah, F*#$ Shoes!" #onlyincollege.
