I had just gotten on my bus -- a bus that goes downtown. The doors had not yet closed behind me. A plump, dark-haired girl walked up and, through the open door, asked the female bus driver: "Do you go downtown?"

"Do you want me to go downtown," the bus driver asked.

"Umm, I was just asking," the girl said.

"Well, for you," the bus driver chirped, "I'll go downtown!"

What the he..?

-- W i l l