Earthquake weather and other bus conversations

The bus ride to and from work generally has some sort of entertaining conversations that I can listen to. For all of you that don't know me, I am a people watcher and a chronic eavesdropper. Public settings in general are the best places to do this, but I have found that public transportation is the best because you have a captive audience. Yesterday may have been my best session ever.

It actually rained yesterday. I know, right? Los Angeles doesn't see much rain, and when it does it's typically not in the summer months. From my memory it's around January and February that most of the rain fall occurs. So the fact that it rained yesterday made things even more interesting. The world as Angelenos know it halts at the slightest hint of rain. People that are already bad drivers become even worse drivers, people that wear coats year round are colder, and people that have lived in California their whole lives generally lose their mind.

There are a lot of people in Southern California that did not spend the majority of their lives here, myself being included. We generally have a (much) higher tolerance for what we call "weather". We grew up with rain, snow, hail, ice storms, etc. So when things drop below anything less than ideal we can manage. People that are born and raised in Southern California freak the fuck out, but this is besides the point, back to the topic at hand... my eavesdropping habit.

So I am on the bus and on my way home. It's sprinkling just a bit, people are walking around downtown with giant golf umbrellas like we're in the middle of a legitimate storm. First off, it takes forever to get out of downtown and on to the 110 normally, but today since it's "raining" it takes even longer". I'm standing up because the bus is full, but luckily I am near one of the more "entertaining" regulars on my bus. She's a 30+ year old black woman, no idea what her name is but she has some interesting personality traits, most of which make me think she's acting because of how exaggerated they are, but I digress. She's talking with a couple of other women that she knows and calls by name about the weather and how "it's pouring" which makes me laugh, just a little bit, to myself.

They're talking for almost the entire ride home about this and that, nothing that I recall or would be worth mentioning but I know the topic sticks to weather because of what she said next:"Oh my God, it's so humid.(note: she has no idea what real humidity is until she's in Columbus, OH during the 4th of July). It's like earthquake weather." Earthquake weather?? Huh? I didn't believe what she had just said but she kept repeating it in different ways but the phrase "earthquake weather" still was uttered multiple times in a few minutes time.

Now, I thought at first, maybe being from Ohio and not knowing a whole lot about earthquakes there might be something to this woman's statement. But the more I thought about it the more absurd it became. I was sure that humidity had nothing to do with the chances of there being an earthquake. Just to be sure I googeled it, and I was right. This woman is a few bricks short.

This just proves my point again, people are stupid and should not be trusted.