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I hopped on the 23-Monterey last week and grabbed a seat near the middle of the bus, where two young surfer-looking guys were standing. One was holding on to the bar. The other, who had curly long dark hair and was shirtless, wasn’t holding on to anything.

“I like to just stand,” he explained to his friend. “It helps me keep my balance. It’s a whole yin and yang thing.”

He started exclaiming to his friend that they were about to come upon the place where he used to live, just off Monterey Boulevard. Then he pulled out a kaleidoscope and offered it — first to my baby, then to the woman sitting next to me. She finally took it and looked through it at the guy.

“I see you. A lot of yous,” she said, mostly humoring him.

“Yeah, that’s like, all my personalities,” he said. Then he shouted to the driver, “I want to get off at the next stop. No, not this one, the one after this one!”

The bus stopped, and he and his friend gathered their things, which included a box of clothing and shoes.

As they exited, he said, “Thanks Mr. Bus Driver! Have a nice day everybody!”

There were titters of laughter throughout the bus.

“They may be drugs, but they’re GOOD drugs,” said the woman next to me.

“It’s amazing what LSD can do,” said the girl on the other side of me.

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