If you are an extrovert like me, then one thing you probably, or will probably, love about public transportation is all of the human interaction you can have in a day. Today, while I was out working on my Los Angeles Without a Car series, I was riding the Metro bus and was lucky enough to meet an art student in her later years in life that chose me as the grand recipient of a hand-drawn caricature. She was working on a caricature of a lady from the UK who I had just met as well while waiting for the bus. She unfortunately had to get off at her stop in mid-drawing and the aspiring artist was somewhat disappointed. She then looked at me and asked if I would like to be her model. I agreed with a smile.

“Look over there,” she told me with her Filipino or Chinese accent, I couldn’t really tell. She wanted to do my profile. “Two minutes, two minutes,” she repeated a couple of times. Apparently she liked timing herself. Well she did it. Just in time for her to get off at her stop at Pasadena City College, most likely for her art class. She quickly ripped out the drawing and handed it to me as she jumped off the bus. I barely had a chance to say thank you let alone ask for her name. So, here is a caricature of me on the bus taken by my anonymous riding companion. Hopefully I’ll see her again on another trip.