Tuesday, May 29, 2018 6:12 AM

The display inside the front of the bus is undependable. It often lags for several stops then jumps ahead to show a stop beyond the next. The vocal announcements are mostly accurate. I hear that same announcer's voice everywhere in the media, speaking precise Hebrew, different from how people speak on the street. The video display near the side door shows repeated Windows boot errors. (Everything here runs on Windows. Its frequent error messages are a regular part of the landscape.) In the seat in front of me, a woman eats a cookie from a blue paper bag emblazoned with the word Pillsbury in Hebrew letters and a picture of the Doughboy. To my left, a man calls out to no one in particular, "Sixty dollars to Poland!" Behind me, a soldier speaks on her cell phone in Hebrew-accented English. "I am glad that you are enjoying the peace. It is an interesting world."