“I promptly went to sleep and I woke up with my head on his shoulder.” “So I took the Greyhound bus and I got on, and I sat down in the first seat that was available, which was next to this good-looking young man,” Ruth tells CNN Travel today. She was 18, it was her first job, and she didn’t want to risk being late. But Ruth was working December 26, and needed to get back in time. She’d spent a fun, festive day with her family.
Ruth was traveling via Greyhound bus from her parents’ house in Olympia, Washington to her home in Seattle, Washington. It was the evening of Christmas Day, 1962. Ruth Underwood woke up with a start, and realized – to her horror – that she’d fallen asleep on a stranger’s shoulder.