Bus rules

I ride the bus to work every day and most of the time I read. On occasion I might finish a book and be left trying to fill the time during the commute. The other day I found myself in this situation and started reading the various signs post inside the bus. One of them was the Rule of Conduct. It was pretty much what you would expect: no eating or drinking, no loud radios, no guns or knives, blah, blah, blah. No surprises, at least until I get to number six.

Number six wasn’t really surprising for its content, but more for its vocabulary. No expectorating. It made me smile because I thought immediately of the Disney cartoon, Beauty and the Beast. I’m not sure I would even know what expectorating meant if it weren’t for the fact that the villain in the story sings a song about how wonderful he is and lists out all the things he does really well. One of them is expectorating. At which point in the song he demonstrates his spitting superiority.

I’m thinking who ever wrote the bus rules was a Disney fan. Thanks for the laugh!