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Oh that? That’s just a stupid little sign

Added on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Or is it? It might also be your bus number written in thin blue ink on a 5 x 7 lined index card. And how does one find this pertinent information out you wonder? Well the easiest way is to stand around when an orange local bus with a local number overhead comes to your stop as you wait for a big red articulated rapid bus with a rapid number over it. Then after the “local” drives off sit with the rest of the confused would be passengers asking, “Wait, did it say 728 on that index card?”

Moral of the story being, Metro can, at times, screw you with buses that never show up or run up to an hour late, so don’t let them screw you with Papermate headways too.

Posted in Anecdotes | 1 Comment »

Suspicion Confirmed

Added on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

For some time I’ve been under the suspicion that bus drivers had a certain beef with bike riders boarding a bus, if not at least an annoyance for. There has never really been much indisputable evidence; I’ve never been slapped or spat upon or just plain passed (actually I have but I had no bike at the time). So without such hard evidence to prove my theory I figured it was just in my head. I make up a lot of things in my life. If I were to explain some of the neurosis in my head some might label me theoretically insane if not clinically. But I get by with boarding the bus as fast as I can and try to ignore the theoretical rays of hatred emitting from the bus driver’s eyes. Theoretical until last night that is.
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Posted in Awareness, Opinion | 17 Comments »

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