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man at least they were a couple. I have taken the old gray dawg from Portland, OR all the way to Albany NY solo (only 72 hoursish as there was no delay) and the rando seatmates you get are really the worst part. Going with another person would be pretty lush imo.
If you ever have to do this buy yourself lots of benadryl and just sleep as much as possible. Be asleep in the aisle seat when people board and they are less likely to wake you to get the window seat.
Also the seats near the back are tempting but the toilet gets really really gross sometimes don't risk the back few rows if you can help it.
Judging by the stories I have heard about Greyhound, the Benadryl is a very nice gesture. That way, the people who steal your kidneys will have to spend less on drugs for you.
If someone steal my kidneys, then probably they need them more than I do.
People in your country only steal kidneys? Someone here in Canada got their whole head cut off.
I used pot butter cookies. The trick is to look like a sketchier creep than all the sketchy creeps coming on board. Look angry and smelly. Twitch if you can.
Im with you. I did this from TX to PA in the late 90s and would not recommend. I had it both ways though - a friend on the ride up who was moving there. The ride home alone was indeed that much more long and depressing. 1/2 star would not recommend
If you ever have to do this buy yourself lots of benadryl and just sleep as much as possible.
Err, nah fuck that; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean#:~:text=On 30 July 2008%2C Tim,of Portage la Prairie%2C Manitoba.
According to witnesses, McLean was sleeping with his headphones on when the man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large knife and began stabbing him in the neck and chest. After the attack began, the bus driver pulled to the side of the road, and he and all the other passengers fled the vehicle. The driver and two other men made an attempt to rescue McLean, but were chased away by Li, who slashed at them from behind the locked bus doors. Li ultimately decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to those standing outside the bus, then returned to McLean's body and began severing other parts and consuming some of McLean's flesh.
feel free to live your life in fear, the odds are greatly against anything like this happening to you.
Yeah I know man, just the first thing I think of when people mention sleeping on a Greyhound.
You're not alone... came here to make a joke about this (and I am still going to).
Yeah I would rather be so deeply asleep I wouldn't suffer that much in my last moments
