28X Inbound, 6:30 a.m.
Most of the passengers have just arrived on the San Francisco Red-eye:

Passenger #1: Yeah, PAT is totally threatening to cut the 28X.
Passenger #2: What the fuck? That’s the only bus I ever use. That’s the most important line they have!
Passenger #1: It’s totally not going to happen, though. The transit authority keeps spending all its money, then threatening to shut down half its routes, then it gets another emergency band-aid bond passed, and finally it lays low for about six months until it runs out of money again.

PAT is kind of like Pennsylvania’s Iraq War.

Passenger #2: …Does that make us insurgents?

— Overheard by Connor