Walking Upright in the New Bus . . .
The sky clouded over, and the temperature dropped a tad bid. I went aboard the Big Blue Bus, opened the windows and roof hatches and continued working at floor level. Today I focused on the bubble gum scattered throughout the bus and on cleaning all the bolts and nuts and screws out of the floor seat-attachment tracks. What it looked like when I started. For this fun activity I donned my knee pads and earplugs. The knee pads because I am on my hands and knees attacking the bubble gum with a sharpened spatula (broadknife), and the ear plugs because the shriek of the shop vac threatens to rip the top of my skull off, gripping it by my ears and even my eyes . . . not pleasant. First a/c unit on the floor! All this time I am walking around the bus in a semi-crouch, being careful not to scalp myself on the zip-sawn ends of the aluminum track supporting the interior air conditioning units. ...