'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It may not actually save any time versus the subway, but it feels much more direct, since I'm not walking out of my way to get a train that doesn't really get me that close to where I'm going.
I feel the same way about the B61 bus from my place to Williamsburg.
crossing town above 57th Street
Oh yes, this. I worked on Third (and 50th, but still), and a friend lives on Tenth, and I always took the crosstown to her place after work. Only way to go, really.
Today's event was me t-boning a shopping cart in the supermarket
She totally deserved it.
I loved the part where juliana said, "Fucking hippies."
Oy. Did I say that in response to that woman (I think it was a woman)? 'Cuz that sounds kind of... mean and not very nice of me. Oh - it was probably in response to her(?) rant on being a 3rd-gen. San Franciscan and how all the Chinese immigrants were ruining the City. Was that the woman? (I've heard the rant coming from more than a few deranged people on the 30 Stockton.)
(Though I've been known to grumble at the neo-hippies in the Haight.) (I'll shut up now.)
I was trying to park the other day and some woman was just standing in the middle of the parking space waiting for other people to get out of the car.
Other parking lot behaviour I hate is getting stuck behind someone who is intent on getting a spot where a Mom with multiple kids and a cart full of stuff has just walked up to the car and hasn't unlocked the door yet meaning we're forced to wait there for 5 minutes.
And people who walk down the aisle of the parking lot in the middle and don't move for traffic.
Oy. Did I say that in response to that woman (I think it was a woman)? 'Cuz that sounds kind of... mean and not very nice of me. Oh - it was probably in response to her(?) rant on being a 3rd-gen. San Franciscan and how all the Chinese immigrants were ruining the City. Was that the woman? (I've heard the rant coming from more than a few deranged people on the 30 Stockton.)
Yes, that was her. I found it funny, not mean at all. She was hysterical.
Okay, I think the cart escalators in Greece must be different from here. The ones I've seen here basically grab the cart by one of the lower bars and bring it up or down - they're not people movers.
Yeah, you get to go on the escalator with your cart? That's even more awesome.
You don't hold onto the bar in a Muni train you're going to be on your ass the first time they slam on the brakes. It's not so optional with the public transit in SF.That's the sort of situation I meant, when I said the thing about my life depending on it. I try not to use skin, though. In the best situations, I'm wearing gloves. When I'm not, but have long sleeves, I'll extend them. Ucky ucky humans.
Also? Received and backflung. I await your response, while I try to resist the urge to change my board name to Incidentally Cindy.
As long as I can't smell it or step in a pile of it, I don't worry about gunk on public transit. I just wash my hands a lot.
My favorite is when the visiting family brings their tot on wheels into the train car, slobbering one of those red white and blue rocket pops all over the place. I sidle up all conspiritorial and say, "That's a $50 fine you know. The sign says no food...that means you." The panic is a bit too fun to watch, I'm afraid to say. Where can they put it, they ask? "You notice there aren't any trash cans in here right? That's because you aren't supposed to bring anything in. I'm sure the station master will have something to say at the next stop.' One poor grandmother actually stuck a popsicle in her handbag to hide it. I tried to feel bad.
I don't know why I didn't think of this before. When I was visiting London, I got typically American-indignant about the amount of litter in the tube stations and asked my native friend why they didn't have trash bins in the tube stations. He told me they removed them in the 70s when the IRA was bombing London because they were a security risk. Too easy to leave a bomb sized parcel unnoticed until it was too late. Now they pay people to pick up the litter.
I daresay that the DC metro has similar rules for similar reasons and that the sole reason for the lack of trash receptacles isn't to discourage eating or drinking on the trains. But rather eating and drinking are discouraged because they can't have trash bins for security reasons and are just trying to cut down on unneccessary litter.
oof, my spelling sucks.