Omnibus by Julio Cortázar. Short summary

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A girl gets on a shuttle bus. She soon discovers that the passengers and driver are very strange. But luckily, a young man enters the bus and distracts the passengers’ attention to himself.

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The girl Clara gets on the bus to get to her friend with whom she has arranged to meet. But the girl soon realizes that the passengers and the bus driver are very strange. The driver is ugly and skinny and incomprehensibly reconsidered with the conductor, who did not want to sell a ticket. All the passengers are holding flowers and looking angrily at the girl.

Clara becomes increasingly uncomfortable. But luckily, a young man gets on the bus and diverts some of the passengers’ attention to himself. The bus reaches the cemetery, where all the passengers but the young man and the girl get off. The bus immediately becomes freer and more comfortable. The boy sits on the seat next to the girl, and they drive on. Sympathy develops between them.

The young people get off at the same stop. As soon as the bus stops, they run out the door that opens. The driver wants to hold them up, but doesn’t have time. The guy and the girl, holding hands, walk down the street. At the nearest flower store, the boy buys two bunches of flowers.