Trapped on a Bus

困于公交车上

This American Life

2026-07-20

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People on journeys they did not intend! Or agree to! Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: A woman on a nighttime bus ride wakes up to discover the bus driver is taking the passengers somewhere none of them want to go. (8  minutes)Act One: Sometimes, the bus ride you're stuck on, against your will, is the thoughts spinning around in your own mind. (13 minutes)Act Two: A dispatch from Cuba, where there are not a lot of buses running right now because the whole country is out of oil. (11 minutes)Act Three: Sometimes, an entire country can be taken on an unexpected journey against its will. That happened in England, where a crime occurred that was so confounding, so nonsensical, that people just could not wrap their heads around it. (15 minutes)Act Four: Someone trapped…not on a bus…but on a plane! When she was 16, Leticia flew from Sao Paolo, where she lived, to Germany. She was seated next to an older woman who did something so surprising during the flight that Leticia still tells people about it today. (9 minutes)Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org This American Life privacy policy. Learn more about sponsor message choices.
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  • From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life.

  • I'm David Kestenbaum, sitting in fryer glass.

  • This morning on the subway, this guy brought his own chair.

  • He was sitting next to him, but he was in like a fold-out chair.

  • That's Aviva de Kornfeld, apparently our transportation correspondent.

  • She came in the studio to tell me a story about a woman on a bus ride that went very strangely.

  • Her name's Duck, or that's her nickname.

  • That's what we're going to call her.

  • Okay.

  • She takes this bus between New York and D.C.

  • A lot, back and forth.

  • So on this trip, she's going from New York to D.C., Union Station, and she's leaving around 6 p.m.