Pt 2: Where we learn a bit of Jim's predicament

There is a fact about Greyhound that you wouldn’t know unless you know. Greyhound buses frequently stop in every hamlet, town, village, and city along their paths. And some that entirely off that path. This makes for a really long and boring trip.
Jim is doing his best to sleep. Or he’s faking like he’s already asleep.
"Excuse me, can I put my head on your shoulder? I just can’t sleep," Lonely-looking Girl inquires of Jim.
"Uh, no. I don’t really know you."
"But I really can’t sleep."
"Whatever."
A little ways down the road Lonely-looking Girl has completely leaned over onto Jim’s shoulder. He tries at first to push her toward the window. She is not budging. How is he going to sleep like this the whole way?
He decides to just deal with it. He needs his sleep, and hopefully no one will notice that this less-than-attractive girl is sleeping on him. There were, after all, some cute girls near the back of the bus. Jim strains to see if they’re asleep. They are.
There is a funny-looking totem pole in front of the bus depot at Kimball, NE. Jim notices this because he is relatively acquainted with Native American cultures and realizes that the local tribe, Lakota, would not have made any such objects.
Right now he feels like that monument to cultural insensitivity: out of place.
His mind is still reeling from the past thirty-six hours. First the meeting where he was told he was leaving. Then a trip in the middle of night to a Greyhound station. And now he was headed across the country, away from his friends. All by himself.
And does he really belong on this bus with all these strange people? He couldn’t judge, but maybe we all belong on that bus at least once.