The Absolute Horror of Public Transportation

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21 Nov 2007, 8:54 pm

Quirk wrote:

Nobody mentioned the people staring at you. Always a favourite of mine.

Read about what happens when you stare at people on the bus...

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt48867.html

I was hoping the girl would get a righteous smack down. :wink:

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22 Nov 2007, 4:26 am

Public transport does have it's down sides. But all that following the same route no matter what and all the different timetables more than make up for it.

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22 Nov 2007, 8:00 am

*shrug*

MP3 players are great.

There's no point complaining when you could easily just walk, or bike it.

Trains are fun. I like to bring a book, my mp3 player (with something like Cannibal Corpse) and a really smelly sandwich. Keeps ppl away. :lol:

Yes, yes, I know I'm adding fuel to the fire. But I'm selfish like that. If I want to eat a smelly sandwich, I can. Everyone else can too.. so they have nothing to complain about.

Some ppl stare at me simply because I look weird. Or they're flabbergasted about how much food I can eat.

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22 Nov 2007, 11:57 am

I don't mind taking the bus, it's only for a short time and will be over soon...

But the school kids getting on the bus at 3pm! That's a horror show. I've waited an extra hour before, just to make sure I'm not on a bus with school kids.

They yell and curse (because saying f*** three times in each sentence you utter makes you cool) and jostle and fall all over you. And when I see some poor kid getting bullied on the bus, it takes all of my self control to not see if I could actually smash the bully through the emergency exit window before he has a chance to see me coming.

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23 Nov 2007, 2:46 am

we got a pretty good bus system here. i use it, i gotta roll like that when i come into town once a month. for a dollar a ride it beats taking the cab

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23 Nov 2007, 3:32 am

Here's a youtube someone made, of clips from Rocko's modern life, where they make fun of the horrors of public transportation. It's to the tune Magic Carpet Ride. They have in the beginning Rocko talking to Heffer saying he' has no car, so now he'll have to use public transportation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQe-BK4WrgQ

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23 Nov 2007, 8:18 am

jjstar wrote:

Buses. Turning, gas fumes, making more turns, people jostling me, bugging me, getting in my space, lights flashing, NO AIR TO BREATHE - for fck's sake - why don't people open a bloody window?? Cell phones, cell phones - yammer yammer, blah, blah, blah. And in the middle of the cacaphony - no air to breathe, hot, humid and dank, a woman opens a big bag of cheetos.

Oh this must be purgatory. Yes. I am sure this is it.

I can't wait for heaven's gate. If I ever make it there.....

All that, and don't forget the extras that come with trains:

Loud horns that make you jump out of your skin.

Women wearing loud high heels.

The fact that underground train stations make everything echo.

People who get to the bottom of an escalator and pause to talk to their friends.

Despite all this, I love trains and buses.

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23 Nov 2007, 8:58 am

I cannot utilize public transport, it's too overwhelming for me.

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23 Nov 2007, 8:23 pm

I ride a bike everywere. I was dependant on public transport when I was younger. I kept a journal of all my dismal observations of the urban sprawl that I would ride miles through every evening after work...some of my observations made it into various depressing poems.

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23 Nov 2007, 8:31 pm

I'm more worried about asking for my ticket when I get on more than anything else. I've been going to the same stop for 4 years, too...

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24 Nov 2007, 12:03 am

I used to cycle 16 mile round trips to avoid going on a bus to college, and the bus was free

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