Ode to Buses...

I would like to take a minute to talk about the buses here in China. First, let me say that it snowed here the last few days and the snow quickly turns into ice on the streets...therefore because of my fear of wiping out yet again on the ice I have turned to the public buses (they are 1/8 the price of a taxi...plus who doesn't like being packed like sardines??) So, everyone and their dog takes the bus in the winter, and there is NO limit to how many people you can pack on one bus. Yesterday, however, I think was the most squished I have ever been in my life. So the bus pulls up and all these people (including myself) run to get on...eventhough there are people packed all the way into the stairwell of the bus already and any sane person would think not one more person could fit on the bus. But the bus driver just yells at everyone to squish in, make more room so people can get on. Miraculously, about 5 or 6 of us get on. I am uncomfortably sandwiched between 2 men and there's this little old grandma like in my armpit...and she's like, can you let me by...and I'm like, are you kidding me lady, I can barely breathe let alone move. All this to say...I love the bus!