The Evils of public transportation by DJToes

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The Evils of public transportation

POSTED BY: DJTOES
UPDATED: Monday, January 8, 2007 12:30
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Saturday, January 6, 2007 3:44 PM

I live in the suburbs. I've got a car and no need to use buses. However, taking class downtown in the city, at a school where parking is impossible, requires me to give up my precious car and use the wonderful bus system of downtown Columbus. -_- Now, it's not so bad. But the evil bus number 3 has failed me. Leaving me hang out with creepy old homeless men, who smoke too much, standing in the rain and waiting for two hours for it to show up. I arrive early for the next bus, thinking it will be there in about five minutes, only to find that it never shows. Two hours later...it arrives late. If anyone has been dissapointed by the evils of the public transportation system, join me in complaining and let out those yells of frustration!

sorry. just had to rant.

"When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl, when you can't do that...You find someone to carry you."

You don't truely understand that quote. Until you needed it.

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 3:54 PM

GOMITHROUS

Ugh, I hate the Toronto Transit System (TTC). Everyday when I go to school the train across from me comes 3 times before mine even stops once, not to mention the numerous creepy homeless people but those are plentiful around my place to so I've gotten used to it, I don't even flinch when they walk straight in to Taco Hell when I'm with my friends and start singing (it happens alot, even at nicer places like Starbucks you'd be surprised). For anyone who is considering going to France I have but one piece of advice, there is no such thing as Bus #4!!!

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:31 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I used to live in the Chicago suburbs and knew a few guys that took the bus to work all the time. They would always tell me about the crazy stuff they saw on the busses. My favorite stories were the ones where you'd walk back to the only empty seat and get ready to sit down, only to notice that it's occupied by a big turd already.... if you're lucky, you noticed it before you sat down.

One of the guys actually said they witnessed somebody crap on the seats. He asked the guy what the hell he was doing and the guy said "What's it look like I'm doin'? I'm taking a shit".

Pure Chicago class baby.

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:39 PM

DJTOES

Ew. Now that's just gross. I'm lucky that the crazy people at my bus stop don't actually get on my bus, they just hang out in the bus shelter. But my father told me about an awkward situation when he used to work downtown. Some crazy guy walked up to the bus stop...not wearing pants. Now you might think that's okay, he still had underwear on right? Wrong. Not pants. Nothing. completely free. I'm very lucky not to have witnessed that.

"When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl, when you can't do that...You find someone to carry you."

You don't truely understand that quote. Until you needed it.

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Monday, January 8, 2007 8:19 AM

HOBBLEIT

yes public transport sucks.

before christmas i waited for four buses that didn't turn up.

Today I was going to uni to hand in my essay but the bus didn't turn up.

Also the only bus that will get me up to Newcastle for Uni is being stopped because it is apparently "unviable". It wasn't unviable when the rival company owned it!

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Monday, January 8, 2007 8:26 AM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Dublin Bus.

Hell on Earth.

Dublin traffic + medieval road network + roadworks EVERYWHERE + fictional timetable = hours and hours of sheer frustrated fury. Thank Heaven for the LUAS!

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Monday, January 8, 2007 12:30 PM

SERYN

cats... meet pigeon...

ever thought that the homeless people are hanging around in bus shelters cause they got nowhere else to go? or they got no pants? or they're bonkers through long years of no support but alchohol and a fantasy timetable?

(before you guys yell at me - i'm playing devils advocate, cause i've had a lot of sugar and whenever people complain about having to use a bus instead of their car i'm wanting to scream 'at least you have a car the rest of the time! and then another voice starts up with the global warming! air pollution! asthma on the increase! kiddies with poisoned lungs! we shouldn't use private transport at all! so use the bus! and then I remember how truly crap public transport is now that everything has been privatised, and everything is done for the pockets of fat cats and not for the good of the people who need the service.... and then all this existential angst comes to an end when i realise that my biggest gripe is not homeless people daring to be evident on our streets, nor the crap service or the ever increasing prices, but the old people.

The fricken old people.

The ones who sit next to you and virtually strangle you with the strange powdery flowery brussel sprouty smell, who tut and scowl at you if you read or listen to something even slightly challenging or (shock horror) modern. who try to tell you the minutest details about Mavis-from-next-doors bowel cancer and all the problems she's having with her catheter, then try to fix you up with her grandson, who stand there and try to catch your attention, repeatedly and tirelessly, despite the fact that you are making it very obvious that you are ignoring them, only to, when you finally give in and take your headphones of and look at them, point out of the window and say 'miserable day today isn't it?'
and you just feel like screaming 'NO! NO! ITS A GLORIOUS DAY! LOOK AT THE WAVES OF RAIN COMING DOWN! THE PURPLE OF THE CLOUDS! THE RAINBOW IN THAT CORNER OF THE SKY! ACTUALLY TAKE A LOOK PROPERLY AND THEN SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS WITH ANY ONE OF THE OTHER THOUSANDS OF COFFIN DODGERS LITTERING THIS SMELLY TIN CAN TO HELL!

Of course this is always after their mad scramble to get onto the bus ahead of you elbowing you out of the way and sprinting to step on your feet and hit you with their sticks, just so they might possibly find that magic bit of the bus that gets to where its going QUICKER then the rest of the bus!

I feckin hate old people!

But that crapping on the seats thing is unfogivable, thats so disgusting...

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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