In my dream, I have just finished up some activity. It may have been being in the audience of a theatrical or musical performance or visiting a museum or a sporting event or...
In any case, I am outside the building where I've been and walking a bit. I didn't drive a car to this event and am concerned that I might have to walk home -- which feels like it would be several miles. Visually, I am reminded of West Chester Pike in towards Upper Darby as I look at and/or think about the road I would walk along. It feels as if it's rather late in the day. There's still lots of sunlight, but that might disappear if I have to walk all the way home.
Ahead of me, I see what looks like a open-air bus stop, which feels promising. Maybe I can get a ride back to my house, or at least a lot closer. As I approach the canopy that comprises the bus stop, I see a bus pull up to it and stop. This feels very promising! The bus is rather newish in appearance and quite clean. I get aboard the bus without asking any questions and don't need to pay a fee: it's pointed in the right direction, do why bother asking questions? There are a few people already on the bus. I don't recognize anyone.
The bus starts up and begins to move, and something tells me that I may have made a mistake in getting on. There's a similarity between all the other people on the bus, even though some are male and others female, some are considerably younger than others. I can't identify why they "feel" similar. It's not threatening or reassuring.
I'm not sure whether I ask someone about "Where are we headed?" or I just figure it out, but I now understand that the bus is part of the transportation system for the local college. And there's a hint from somewhere that the bus is part of the football program at the school. And I think about Penn State's huge campus, even though I've never spent any time at State College.
People on the bus are looking at me now -- not angry or curious, just looking. They seem to understand that I really shouldn't be on the bus. It doesn't bother them that I am, it's just they know I am not going to the college.
I'm okay staying on the bus, because it is taking me in the right direction and I "know" I can get off when I need to. And the bus is a whole lot faster towards getting home than hoofing it the entire distance.
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