Friday, April 28, 2006

MTA...Not Going My Way

I woke up this morning and for the first time in a while I was going to be on time for work, wait make that early. I got on the bus and there wasn't even traffic. So there I was all nice and comfy, spread out on the bus since nobody was sitting next to me, and taking my morning nap. I wake up in my usual spot right before we enter the tunnel, and a cop pulls the bus over, which is never good. Apparently something was sticking out of the side of the bus, so we couldn't go through the tunnel because it would have caused damage since the lanes are so tight. So now the driver tells us all we have to get off the bus. So here we are, 30+ people all standing in the middle of the tunnel toll plaza with cars whizzing by waiting to get on a new bus. Now the bus driver tells the cop to stop anything going downtown. Idiot, not all of us are going downtown. An x1 pulls up...perfect, except there's barely any room to even stand and the driver won't let me on. He tells me to get on the x3 that had just pulled up along side him. I nicely tried to explain to him several times that bus doesn't go where I need to go. So I got off and waited with a few others for a bus we could take. A man was nice enough to get off the x1 for me and switch to the x3, but like three people ran in front of me before I could even get near it and then the driver yelled at me. Like what was I supposed to do, knock the people over? So with about 6 of us left that still needed to get a bus, we sat in the original bus and waited to avoid getting hit by the incoming traffic. While waiting the cop got on the bus to take a head count and ask what specific buses we could take. Then he made me laugh by saying "those damn mechanics at the bus garage really need to get on these things". Yeah dad, could you get on it so I can get to work on time?

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