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wolfsbride) wrote2005-06-24 09:30 am
wolfsbride) wrote2005-06-24 09:30 am
Never run after a bus or a man. There will always be another one.
UNLESS YOU LIVE IN MY RASEN FRACKEN CITY!!!
OMGWTF??!! Why the hell do we have such an unbelievably useless transit system??? It can get you to down town no problem but if you actually want to go somewhere that's NOT down town, all hell breaks loose! Now there's a thought. It's designed by the devil. That's the only reason I can think of for its horrendous crappiness.
This morning I actually got up on time for a change instead of sleeping in. I had breakfast, got dressed and was actually, dare I say, cheerful at the prospect of getting to work early and putting in a full day and thus maybe finishing off this client's data that has been hanging over my head for months.
I deliberately checked out the bus schedule to make sure I would get out to the bus stop on time. Was all YAY to see there was a bus due to come by in a few minutes. Left the house and went to the bus stop. A few minutes later, a bus did come by. But it did not stop. Why? Because it was a freaking NOT IN SERVICE bus!!!
Now can someone please explain to me the rational behind this??? A not in service bus goes all the same places as a regular bus of the same number only... wait for it.. it doesn't pick up passengers! Like what the hell??? Why the heck would you pay some guy to drive around the city not picking up passengers???
My theory is that it's the transit department's way of taunting us. It's their way of saying.. oooo we have your tax dollars, so now we can do anything we want! MWAHA!! You want a bus? Well, here's a bus.. see it slowly approaching... such a nice shiny busssss! You want it, don't youuuu. Well, HA! You can't have it, suckers! ><
So, anyway. While I was standing there TWO more not in service buses drove by. Finally, about forty five minutes later, an IN service bus came by. Too bad it wasn't the one I needed. See, it was only going halfway. By now, I'm well on my way to annoyed, so I hopped on the damn bus, paid my money and got a transfer, so that I could get on the bus I needed should it ever bloody well arrive.
I got off at the halfway point and stood waiting. While I waited, two MORE not in service buses drove pass. At that point, I had driven by annoyed and taken a plane to SEETHING WITH RAGE. Darth Vader... THE ORIGINAL ONE... would have been proud. After a twenty minute wait, my bus finally showed up. Was all YAY!
At least until I got on the bus. I swear the bus driver must have thought he was driving some sort of obstacle course or something. One minute he's driving like he's in a high speed race, the next he's inching along like an arthritic turtle. He's slamming on the brakes, hitting the gas really fast, throwing everybody around. He's cutting lanes, swerving around cars, narrowly missing pedestrians. I was reminded of that movie where there's a bunch of people racing each other to somewhere and they get points for every person they hit. The goal is to rack up the most number of points.
Now for the truly hilarious part. The same government that gives us this wonderful gift of transit, spends millions of dollars a year on an ad campaign called Go Green. Which is basically a bunch of ads telling people they should save the environment by taking the bus instead of their cars. Like YEAAAAAAAAAAH. If I had a car, or could afford a car, you think I'd be standing at the fricking bus stop in the pouring rain, snow, hail, blazing sun waiting for a NOT IN SERVICE bus? What a bunch of delusional idiots.
If they want people to opt for taking the bus instead of driving their cars, they need to take those eleventy thousand not in service buses and give them routes, damn it! Make it so the damn buses run every fifteen minutes NO MATTER WHERE THEY"RE GOING! Why the hell should the people who work down town get all the good service??? I pay taxes! I deserve a bus that comes on time, you fuckers!
You know, I have a running gag at my workplace. Every time the government or a company does something that is so insanely annoying and stupid that it makes you want to bang their heads against a wall, I say "when I become financial dictator of Canada" as in when I become financial dictator of Canada, I'm going to make it so all invoices have to have the date, the invoice number and the company's name on them. I'm thinking I need to broaden my horizons and become the transportation dictator of Canada as well.
OMGWTF??!! Why the hell do we have such an unbelievably useless transit system??? It can get you to down town no problem but if you actually want to go somewhere that's NOT down town, all hell breaks loose! Now there's a thought. It's designed by the devil. That's the only reason I can think of for its horrendous crappiness.
This morning I actually got up on time for a change instead of sleeping in. I had breakfast, got dressed and was actually, dare I say, cheerful at the prospect of getting to work early and putting in a full day and thus maybe finishing off this client's data that has been hanging over my head for months.
I deliberately checked out the bus schedule to make sure I would get out to the bus stop on time. Was all YAY to see there was a bus due to come by in a few minutes. Left the house and went to the bus stop. A few minutes later, a bus did come by. But it did not stop. Why? Because it was a freaking NOT IN SERVICE bus!!!
Now can someone please explain to me the rational behind this??? A not in service bus goes all the same places as a regular bus of the same number only... wait for it.. it doesn't pick up passengers! Like what the hell??? Why the heck would you pay some guy to drive around the city not picking up passengers???
My theory is that it's the transit department's way of taunting us. It's their way of saying.. oooo we have your tax dollars, so now we can do anything we want! MWAHA!! You want a bus? Well, here's a bus.. see it slowly approaching... such a nice shiny busssss! You want it, don't youuuu. Well, HA! You can't have it, suckers! ><
So, anyway. While I was standing there TWO more not in service buses drove by. Finally, about forty five minutes later, an IN service bus came by. Too bad it wasn't the one I needed. See, it was only going halfway. By now, I'm well on my way to annoyed, so I hopped on the damn bus, paid my money and got a transfer, so that I could get on the bus I needed should it ever bloody well arrive.
I got off at the halfway point and stood waiting. While I waited, two MORE not in service buses drove pass. At that point, I had driven by annoyed and taken a plane to SEETHING WITH RAGE. Darth Vader... THE ORIGINAL ONE... would have been proud. After a twenty minute wait, my bus finally showed up. Was all YAY!
At least until I got on the bus. I swear the bus driver must have thought he was driving some sort of obstacle course or something. One minute he's driving like he's in a high speed race, the next he's inching along like an arthritic turtle. He's slamming on the brakes, hitting the gas really fast, throwing everybody around. He's cutting lanes, swerving around cars, narrowly missing pedestrians. I was reminded of that movie where there's a bunch of people racing each other to somewhere and they get points for every person they hit. The goal is to rack up the most number of points.
Now for the truly hilarious part. The same government that gives us this wonderful gift of transit, spends millions of dollars a year on an ad campaign called Go Green. Which is basically a bunch of ads telling people they should save the environment by taking the bus instead of their cars. Like YEAAAAAAAAAAH. If I had a car, or could afford a car, you think I'd be standing at the fricking bus stop in the pouring rain, snow, hail, blazing sun waiting for a NOT IN SERVICE bus? What a bunch of delusional idiots.
If they want people to opt for taking the bus instead of driving their cars, they need to take those eleventy thousand not in service buses and give them routes, damn it! Make it so the damn buses run every fifteen minutes NO MATTER WHERE THEY"RE GOING! Why the hell should the people who work down town get all the good service??? I pay taxes! I deserve a bus that comes on time, you fuckers!
You know, I have a running gag at my workplace. Every time the government or a company does something that is so insanely annoying and stupid that it makes you want to bang their heads against a wall, I say "when I become financial dictator of Canada" as in when I become financial dictator of Canada, I'm going to make it so all invoices have to have the date, the invoice number and the company's name on them. I'm thinking I need to broaden my horizons and become the transportation dictator of Canada as well.