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Friday, November 21, 2008

City Overheard on the 20-Minute-Late Metro "Express" Bus

Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM

Driver, to an aggravated passenger: "Keeping the schedule is my least concern."

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my car never talks back to me.

Posted by egg on November 21, 2008 at 10:45 AM

Stupid fucking safety-minded driver, why can't he lurch around more recklessly to keep the schedule?

Posted by tomasyalba on November 21, 2008 at 10:47 AM

My shitbox car talks back to me regularly, and costs substantially more than $1.50 when it does.

Posted by abc on November 21, 2008 at 10:51 AM

If I had to put up with people's shit talk all day, I'd give dismissive answers too.

Posted by Hernandez on November 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM

While waitin' just go to a special place and imagine tumbleweeds breezin' o'er vast Texan oil fields.... ahhhh! Take....me....away....

Posted by CommonKnowledge on November 21, 2008 at 10:57 AM

What's a bus driver going to do? Grade separate his bus?

It's not the driver's fault. It's the mode.

Posted by John Jensen on November 21, 2008 at 11:04 AM

Twenty minutes late for Metro is practically on time.

Posted by elswinger on November 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM

Remember that train crash in Japan in 2005? I believe that driver's motto was "Keeping the schedule is my biggest concern".

Posted by Mahtli69 on November 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Meanwhile you advocate a "surface/transit" option. Makes sense.

Posted by w7ngman on November 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM

There are drivers who are always rude and drivers who are always graceful. There are riders who are always rude and riders who try to be graceful as much as they can in this mass transit-less hell of a transport town.

Posted by Sara on November 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM

@9

SNAP!

Posted by jackie treehorn on November 21, 2008 at 11:15 AM

Metro's priority: "Safety, service, schedule." In that order.

Posted by Your Name Here on November 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM

i don't get it, is this a complaint? that the driver is putting your safety ahead of adhering to a set schedule? i'm confused, please advise.

Posted by brandon on November 21, 2008 at 11:29 AM

AGGRAVATED ≠ ANNOYED

C'mon now, ECB. You're better than that.

Posted by Dr. Savage Mudede on November 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM

I have to say, most metro drivers RULE, particularly given how hard it must be to maintain a civil demeanor while dealing with idiots all fucking day.

Posted by Quintus Slide on November 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM

Trade the gas powered leafblower for a rake, and get yourself into something with four wheels. Thirty minutes of your leaf blowing is equal to driving a car to Denver and back. Really, Erica, that particulate matter and hydrocarbon from your leafblower is hell on the elderly and children and asthmatics. There is no calculus I can think of where a bus ride or bike ride offsets that.

Get a car and a rake.

Posted by elenchos on November 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM

@16: My leafblower?

Posted by ECB on November 21, 2008 at 2:37 PM