Public Transportation

Public Transportation, Like it? Sometimes, Hate it? Sometimes....

This Morning, I like to tend to grab a coffee from Dunkin Donuts in the morning prior to heading to class. Luckily for me where I exit my apartment, is in the middle of two bus stops, and at the mid point, is a friendly Dunkin Donuts. Unfortunately, as I poped out this morning there was a bus already at stop 1, leaving me enough time to get to stop #2. Granted I have a full load to carry today, backpack loaded, and my doctors bag, so I am not that fast. None the less I catch the bus, with being .10 cents short (my Monthly pass for some reason did not go through yet, ..hmm..) I now have to add $$$ to my card as I do not want another .50 cent vocher to take to DTCrossing to get my two quaters.
Lesson to belearned: Aproch a mobile termanal (bus, trolley, Push the WHITE BUTTON in the upper right corner, tap your pass, insert amount of money you want to add, push WHITE BUTTON again, and then TAP pass. You have now added funds to your CharlieCard on a bus or trolley. Now you can tap again to pay for your trip.
So I did just that.

The bus was quite full this morning, people kept getting on, and no one got off. I am practially sitting on the dashboard of the bus, we approch Coolidge Corner where as mass of people are standing, waiting to get on... and they will try, try to hard they well... As we aproch, I decided to open my mouth "I think we're gona need a bigger bus"
Bus driver replies, "nice! Jaws"... and floors it past the stop, haha! (side note, no one pushed the stop request button, so no one could argue that they wanted to get off there)
So that was a pleasant relief, But the next stop came across, someone wanted to get off, and there was someone there to get on. So we made the exchange. Two people get on, two of my "favorite characters"
The first one a young girl, around my age, a little older, dressed up for work. Dress, show-y leggings, heals that made her awkwardly tall (and quite unstable to add to my humor) red jacket (burbury, ughhh show-off), and YELLING one HER CELL PHONE! High Pitch, High Speed, High Volume= alot of pissed morning commuters, none the less, she was to ignorant and self absorbed, she didn't notice the vibe of hated aimed in her direction.
My second character, how can I say this politely and in a manner that is politicially correct,... the one that must sit down between between two stops, in an overly crowded bus, because she is entitled to. Ontop of that, she reminded eevveerryyoonnee oonn tthhee bbuuss ttoo cchhaannggee tthheeiirr cclloocckkss aass iitt iiss ttiimmee ttoo sspprriinngg aahheeaadd. wow

I got off at the next stop, to go to physics. Its always an event to go from point A to point B. :-) I like it though, always a story to tell...


~City Commuter