Aphrodite with a hangover....!!!

Hello and Happy Hallowe'en to you all! And (Yay!!) Mad Lady was on the bus again today, and this time she was in costume! Well, she had a lace tablecloth draped over her head which was a jolly good effort. She rather reminded me of a dove, all in white, looking out of the window and cooing to herself while rocking backwards and forwards. As usual I turned my music off (all the better to hear you with, my dear) to see if I could catch some of her wisdom to share with you all, but she is pretty softly spoken for a Mad person, alas. Also, a man was busy asking me if I was from England, on account of the Union Jack "Harrods" bag I use for work. He was so enthusiastically welcoming me to Anchorage and telling me what an asset I was that I didn't have the heart to ask him to be quiet.
Sadly, all I managed to hear was Mad Lady accusing Aphrodite of having a hangover, then adding that she (Mad Lady) would like to punish Aphrodite for her recklessness. She also said to nobody in particular "Excuse me, it's Hallowe'en. I'm in costume, I'm in character" then she began to coo again, and cluck softly like a hen.
I must admit, I'm rather fond of Mad Lady, just as long as she doesn't make eye contact with me as I haven't got a plan in place if this should ever happen. I'm thinking I could possibly just look away and pretend I haven't noticed, in that way that possibly only the British have. For example, a few years ago I worked with a very nice man named Martin. Martin had some kind of complicated medical condition which meant he had very poor eyesight and hearing, and in addition to that he actually had no ears. The good old NHS had provided Martin with contact lenses to help him see, and  hearing aids; they had also rather thoughtfully provided him with a pair of very fetching rubber ears. These ears were actually pretty good; you only noticed that they weren't real in the Summer, when Martin's face acquired a lovely tan and his ears didn't. Anyway, one day Martin was on his coffee break, with another coworker named Robbie. Somehow, Martin accidentally knocked one of his ears off. It bounced off the kerb into the gutter, and poor Martin had to run after it before it rolled down the drain. When Robbie was recounting this story to the rest of us later, we all asked him how he had reacted. Robbie, in that so typically English way, said "oh I just pretended I hadn't noticed......" !!!
Just as I pretended I didn't notice that Lady Bus Driver last night was brushing her teeth while she drove......no, none of these things are weird or out of the ordinary when you share a planet with over 7 billion others, and that's just the humans-you just have to love diversity.....