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| 12:44pm 10/08/2003 |
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wicked fast week. wicked fast weekend. i'm in NYC now staying with anders. i came down on friday, deciding to take one of the chinatown-chinatown buses. i mananged to get the last seat on the 12pm bus, and arrived on Canal St. 6.5 hours later. normally this ride is 4 hours. if i drive, it's closer to 3 hours. but the traffic going into the city was horrible, and pychologically abusive.
coming down through the bronx, i realized it would have been faster for all of us to get off the bus and find a train to take us the rest of the way. the bus guy, of course, wouldn't let this happen. he won't stop the bus early even if it turns out that the route home goes right by your house. instead, it's his policy to drive past that convenient access point and not stop until the final destination gets rolled on by his big wheels.
i wonder at what point he would stop and reconsider his rule. what if we were one block away from the officially bus stop, but there was an accident in front of us and bus couldn't go forward or backward because of traffic. would he let us off to meet our loved ones, friends, dogs, etc. on foot? a mere 2 minute stroll down the road? probably not. he'd rather make us sit, and swelter and be angry. |
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