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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

Ooooh bus stories.

I took a bus from Townsville to Perth once. That's 5000km's. Of course, as a poor backpacker I booked it straight through because I had no money to stay overnight anywhere and figured I would sleep on the bus.

Halfway through I run into a fellow getting rid of a half pound of "shake" he has after trimming weed for a week. I procured said MJ for a budget price of $50 and proceeded to roll up as many single doobies as possible. I started selling them to fellow bus mates at a bargain price of 2 for $5 to raise enough funds for maybe a night sleep in Ayers so I can see some giant rock.

Of course half the bus is eventually in on this, and every time we stop there's a bunch of us that would go out back and proceed to get high AF before re-boarding the bus. All is well until one moron decides he can't wait for the next stop, goes into the bus bathroom, removes the smoke detector, and lights up. Bus immediately stops, cops are called, passenger is arrested. So here I am with a pile of prerolls and a mitt full of $5 bills sweating my nards off because I'm thinking I'm next in line for the clink. My options are toss the weed or risk it (keep in mind I'm poor AF) so I do the only logical thing and put it in my backpack in the luggage shelf because I somehow think because the weed isn't on me I would be fine. Spent the remainder of the bus ride in total paranoia, make it to Perth with my cash and my remaining joints and proceed to blow all my funds on $5 box wine.

The one part I will never forget about that trip (other than the 50 million flys constantly buzzing around) was chatting with the driver while driving the Nullarbor. I'm half asleep in the front row and all of a sudden I'm jarred awake to a loud THUD as we run something over. I jolt awake and ask the driver WTF that was and he laughs....."Fakkin roos, mate". I asked him how often that happens and if it was normal....to which he responds "We don't slow down for those kants, but you gotta watch out for the camels".

There is a story I want to tell so badly, but I would be roasted alive and it has absolutely nothing to do with me. I heard it from the Driver and the Union Head. But its so bad.