It's not deja vu - it's the Same Pants

I sometimes have a problem telling if it's Wednesday or Thursday or Monday, and mostly it's my own natural-born vagueness but today I know for sure it's not my fault.

Got off the Magic Bus today (another long story) just behind the same girl as I have been getting off the bus behind for the last 3 days and I suddenly have this feeling of vertigo cum deja vu because I really really think something's repeating itself. Like, I've seen this movie before. Then I realise. She's worn the exact same pants and shoes for the last 3 days and all of last week. It's a pair of satin light brown pants, with matching brown leather slingbacks. As usual, I can't see her face but the figure's great and I would love to have a pair of those pants myself - they fit her like a dream - but oh God, not that pair she's wearing since obviously she never washes them. Ugh!

So now she's Same Pants Girl.

Definitely less scary than Ju Onn Girl, another Magic Bus character. Always sits on an aisle seat on the right side of the bus. She's pale as a ghost, always wears black, and she always uses her long skinny left hand to blinker the left side of her face from the morning sun. Just holds it there, suspended, for the whole bus ride. I've never seen her face - maybe when I finally do, she will look exactly like whatzherface from The Ring and she'll hiss "In Sevennn Days ......" at me, just like in the movie. Way kewl.

Then there's Gucci (same Gucci bag - or is it a Cuggi? - every single day regardless of her outfit) and Pusher (auntie who ALWAYS insists on being the first one up the bus, even though she sits comfortably at the other end of the bus stop during the wait and all of us sweat at the front of the bus stop maintaining a ragged queue).

All these women I share the morning bus with. Every day. For the last 5 months. You know what that means? It means if it hasn't already happened, our menstrual cycles are going to start to coincide.