I truely hate buses. I am forced to use them because parking near to my work is impossible and being Canadian means that biking to work is possible only for a few months a year.
So, every weekday morning I'm going to try and post my experiences from that morning's commute and the previous evening's headache. It only takes me 1 hour from my door to my office, which starts with a drive to the local Park n Ride, a 10 to 15 minute wait for bus #1 and a half hour drive across Gatineau. The voyage isn't done there. We still have to cross a bridge, drive past the Canadian parliament building and finally stop in front of the Rideau center (Canada's finest shopping mall for the rich and stupid). Now it's time to wait another 10 minutes for another bus to take me the final few km to work. One good thing, it drops me off right in front of the building...LUCKY ME!
Apparently I'm helping to save the environment, but I'm sure that the greenhouse gases in the steam coming out of my ears each day is negating the advantage for Mom Nature. We probably can expect a few tenths of a degree warmer summer this year after I tried to get up from my seat last night only to be snapped back by a well chewed piece of gum stuck to the heating board. I feel sorry for the poor lady with the new frizzy hairdo for taking the brunt of my ear exhaust, but she rides the bus and therefore took that risk of her own free will.
See you tomorrow,
Johnny B. Good
It will be interesting to see if you can sustain the energy to keep hating buses. Nice picture.
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