Amanda and I were working nightshift in a casino somewhere, and it was time for us to clock out and go home. We made our way to an exit, but we kept trying to scan our badges and were having no success. I swiped mine a few times in a reader on one side of the wall, she did the same on the other side. She started pressing buttons on the intercom, trying to get security to let us out - just as someone came out of a side room to show us an alternative.
The guy showed us that if we stuck our badges in this older looking card reader, it would clock us out and let us out of the building. I ran my badge through the machine, and it spit out a paper receipt with handwritten entries showing my name, badge number, the time I clocked out, along with a couple other things. Amanda did the same and we headed on our way.
As soon as we got outside we hopped in a taxi that was waiting there. I got in the driver's seat, she got in the back. As we started to take off, I realized that the roads were icy and the drop-off area where we were was covered was very constricted. I slowly pulled out of the taxi queue and turned to head down the hill past the bus stop pickup area. As I went down the hill I pushed the brake pedal to the floor, but the taxi still kept sliding down the hill past some people and towards the busses. The road was narrow so there was no way for me to avoid hitting the bus if we didn't stop.
When we reached the bottom of the hill, we were now suddenly on the bus that we were going to hit with the taxi. Instead of Amanda, it was now Gloria that was with me. The bus was parked, and we heard a voice saying that it was the bus driver's 25th anniversay with the company, and that if anyone wanted to shake her hand they should come outside now. Everyone left the bus except for me and Gloria... so I ran up front and took over, pulling away from the bus stop.
We travelled until it was getting light, then we stopped off at a rest area. There was an older "mom & pop" type truck stop there that sold a variety of things, including NES games which were advertised on their display as "3 for $7.00" We got back on the bus and continued down the road... and without explanation it was nighttime again.
I attempted to take an exit off of the freeway, but the bus was going too fast. We started onto the ramp but realized that the brakes weren't slowing the bus enough to make the curve - so I turned the wheel left and made the bus jump off the road and down towards the interstate that we were wanting to merge onto. (Picture the I-270 S -to- I-70 E exit on the east side of Columbus) The bus banged the ground as it jumped off the road, quickly crossed the other road, and headed towards an embankment on the other side. When we hit it, the bus went up in the air but landed relatively gently a few hundred feet later. We were driving off the side of the road, but the bus was still travelling way too fast. We hit another hill on the side of the road, sending the bus flipping and flying through the air again. We landed on the wheels without damage and ended up coming to a rest outside of a videogame convention.
We got out of the bus to make sure we didn't hurt anyone and to explore what was going on. (It was Amanda that was with me again. *shrug*) We saw Carl when we got out of the bus, and realized it was some sort of Star Wars / XBOX convention, and there were rows and rows of people standing around at game machines. As we walked past them, I remarked to Carl that they must be using XBOX 360 technology - because everyone we walked past actually had the face of someone that I knew. It seemed that something scanned my PC, downloaded all of my personal pictures, and then displayed the faces from those pictures onto the people that were playing the game machines. We walked around for a while, looking at people and trying to figure out what picture their face came from.
