Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clerk in Atlanta, cannot replace a car that blew its engine and could not be repaired. Says he: "When I was 19, I could afford to buy a new car. Now I'm 26 and I can't afford to buy a used car." He rides a bus or catches rides with friends to work. George McCoy, a law-enforcement officer in Chicago, says, "I'm trying to find a house but it will take me ten years to earn the down payment." Ted Buchalter, a pharmacist in Beverly Hills, Calif., notes that "even the kids...
...hypochondriac listens to his own breathing and heart-beat in the middle of the night. Some people, of course, have an urgent need to know: boatmen, farmers, construction workers, streetwalkers. But others whose daily exposure to the hazards of the open air is limited to three minutes between bus stop and office lobby are also curious to the point of vague anxiety about variations in the temperature and the chances of rain...
...remember your first love? You were a brash sixth-grader, she a blond, fifth-grade beauty. One day you sat down on the bus and there she was, across the aisle...
Finally, on the last day of school, you made your move. You got on the bus, saw her sitting in a window seat, and with a marvelous display of sixth-grade cool plunked yourself down beside her. Suddenly, as you turned toward her, she stood up in a rustle of papers and streamers, squeezed past you into the aisle and she was gone. Off to another seat, shooting scorning stares at your with her babbling, fifth-grade friends...
Maybe that's why I haven't given up hope. The team and I will be riding the same bus together next year, and like Cleary says most everyone will be back, and a year older too. It's just that they're not ready for love now, right...