The Bus Boy Who Thought He Knew Better

We may not speak Nepali or technically know where we are at all times. However we have been here for 5 1/2 weeks now so we know are way around and we know when we are being led astray.

We walked up to the bus(van) and as always asked where it was going. The creepiest man, with the creepiest smoker voice, said while puffing smoke into our face "this bus is to Thamel". If you've ever watched the old Alice and Wonderland and Alice is speaking with that wise old caterpillar  and as he does he puffs blue smoke at her. That's was basically what happened to us. I for one thought smoker man was much creepier than the caterpillar, which as you must now is quite an impressive feat. 

Then the little man in charge of calling out everyone and making sure he squeezes as many people as he can on the bus, he looked at us and then at the creepy guy and smiled. This usually means that we are going to get played. And then as we pulled away the smoker man looked right at us and smiled (if you could call it a smile, it had a bit too much evil in it to be called a smile). At this point my imagination is running wild. I was convinced that they were going to drive and not tell us where we were or to get off, until everybody else was gone. And then they'd drive us into some creepy ally, smoker man would be waiting, and they'd kill us. 

Here we are on the bus and we see where we were supposed to stop and instead they continue on. Luckily for us we have been here for 5 1/2 weeks so we quickly got off. As we left the little bus man smiled as if we had caught him in the act. I'm telling you he was totally going to murder us.