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Public Transportation Follies

This is why I avoid the bus during non-commute hours

08.18.08 | Comment?

Saturday late afternoon, boarding the line 15 bus at 34th and Belmont.  I hear a woman ahead of me snarl at the bus driver, “Can you explain why you’re over an hour late?”  The driver looks bewildered, says he is right on time.  I follow this unpleasant woman down the aisle, giving the back of her head the stinkeye, because I know she is full of it.  A half-hour before I had disembarked from the previous 15 that stopped at that intersection, went to run an errand nearby, than walked back to the busstop to get on this bus which arrived as scheduled, lo at half-hour intervals that time of day.

Four blocks and two stops later, she gets off the bus.  So perhaps she was deranged by the excessive heat of the weekend and imagined she waited over an hour just to ride four blocks.  I’m sure she complained all evening about the tardy driver.  I don’t want to judge, since in all likelihood that she has physical and/or mental disabilities, but monkey-on-mercury crazy is what you get on the bus in the many hours of the day when taxpayers are not commuting to work.

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