Bus Pass Has a Mystery to Solve

Bus Pass was cock-a-hoop.  A doubler!  Two top deck trips in the same week.  This time, two whole hours, to a big town.  There would be shops.  Cafés.  Nirvana. 

But Bus-Pass-Lady seemed chastened, reluctant to think about shops, muttering about ‘lessons learned’ and ‘following the budget’.  Surely the budget had been a few days ago?  Bus Pass had no idea BPL was so interested in politics. 

Then, BPL started babbling about Historic Scotland free entry and ‘leave the car, take the bus’.  Bus Pass was perplexed.  But while BPL was perusing Google maps to find the best bus stop for Elgin Cathedral, and routes for walking to the bus station afterwards, bus pass spied a ‘Waterstones’.   Pinpointed on the map!  Glowing like a jewel in a crown.  BPL seemed perturbed, upset even.  Bus Pass couldn’t understand what had happened recently, but there was something afoot. 

Bus Pass had a mystery to solve. 

What was wrong with BPL?  She usually lived for popping into shops, especially ‘Waterstones’, with their lovely free coffee if she bought a book of the month.  What was going on?  Bus Pass felt a kindred spirit was slipping away.  Something had to be done.  Some day-dreaming on a top deck, that’d bring BPL back to her super-shopper self.  Wouldn’t it?  Bus Pass felt a bit panicked.  What if BPL got shopaphobia, entirely losing her will to shop?  Not even a grocery trip to Turriff or back from Whitehills long-walk, with a tuna-mayo-on-malt.  Never running amuck in ‘Waterstones’ again!  BPL was at a funny age afterall.

“BPL, stay with me!”, Bus Pass sobbed.

(Bus Pass has been watching far too much hospital melodrama).

“Don’t worry Bus Pass, from now on, you and I will focus on experiences, not shopping”. 

Bus Pass deduced that this was a red herring.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin,_Moray