jessica wrote:
] ] "Whatever your holiday travel travails were Thanksgiving
] ] weekend, it could have been worse: You could have been on
] ] Sally Weisbrot's bus the night of Nov. 30.
] ]
] ] Eager to get home after spending the holiday with her
] ] sister in Mount Laurel, Weisbrot, a 30-year-old New
] ] Yorker, watched from her second-row seat with mounting
] ] dismay as the Greyhound driver, trying to find a
] ] less-congested route north, made one bad move after
] ] another.
] ]
] ] His biggest mistake came while the bus was mired in
] ] traffic on Route 9. After exasperated passengers asked if
] ] he knew where he was going, the driver got on the public
] ] address system and made a remark he would soon regret.
] ]
] ] "I'm taking you to the Taliban," Weisbrot heard him say.
] ] "Don't worry about it."
] ]
] ] It was a bad, nonsensical joke, everyone agrees now. But
] ] with the specter of war with Iraq looming and Osama bin
] ] Laden still at large, America is hardly in a lighthearted
] ] mood."
]
] I don't know, I'm an American and I'm in a lighthearted mood
] because I thought this whole thing was pretty funny...

speaking as someone who's been in similar travel induced hell, I would've killed the guy. Not for the remark, but for being lost in the first place.