Douglas writes on crank: “i rode the chinatown bus for the first time this weekend and i was generally pleased with the price and the ride. the company seems pretty safety conscious, as ‘no standee’ is printed in large letters in the front …”
“after close to an hour in traffic in downtown manahattan, i found it especially funny when someone in the front seat tried to tell the driver a better way to get to the holland tunnel, and the driver shouted him down, then proceeded to turn on a recording of bird songs really loud, drowning out the passenger’s whining complaints…”
“there was a girl, probably still in college, sitting in front of me with a laptop, on which it seemed like she was typing an article for a student newspaper or something. she typed one sentence in 15 minutes, then closed the computer and went to sleep. the sentence was: it is no secret that the chinatown bus is the cheapest way to get from new york to philadelphia…'”