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Apr. 6th, 2006 07:32 pmToday I left campus at 4:30 to catch the 4:40 bus to a Toyota dealer. No problem there. (No problem this morning either, my transfer was waiting for me, took 50 min total.) Test drove a Scion xA (pretty good) and a Toyota Corolla (a boat with a twitchy gas pedal, weird). Got done at 6:02. This is when the problems started.
The bus schedule only gives times for major stops, and I was between a stop that had the Route 30 bus at 5:40, and a stop that had the bus at 5:50. The next time for the bus was 6:40 and 6:50 respectively. The time was 6:02 pm, so it was clear I'd have to wait some 38 minutes for the next bus. To kill time I walked to the next bus stop. And again, to the next bus stop. And then I saw that there was a Bank America by the stop, so I popped in for some cash. And I walked out and the 5:40 bus was driving off. Fsckin' A!
To kill time until the 6:40+ bus, I walked to the next stop. And the next. And the next. At each one I stopped for a minute or so to watch for the bus. Each was easily within eyesight of the last. At 6:30 I checked the schedule for my bus transfer - I needed to be downtown (a total of 2 miles from my start location) for the 6:50 Route 11. I walked to the next stop. And the next. At 6:40, when the bus was supposed to arrive at the start location, I realized I was close enough to downtown that I might as well keep walking.
At 7:02 I arrived downtown, and I'd never been passed by the 6:40 #30 bus. One hour to walk two miles with a decently heavy bookbag. I missed the 6:50 #11, but I sat around for ten or fifteen minutes and got the 7:20 #11. Home around 7:30 made the whole trip nearly an hour and a half.
My car's currently at the Chrysler dealer since the computer Aaron was gonna try wasn't the right one.
ETA: My down coat (it's winter out there!) weighs 3.5 lbs, while my bookbag is a mere 16.5. Together they're 20 lbs. Two miles with 20 lbs. That's a lot. :(
The bus schedule only gives times for major stops, and I was between a stop that had the Route 30 bus at 5:40, and a stop that had the bus at 5:50. The next time for the bus was 6:40 and 6:50 respectively. The time was 6:02 pm, so it was clear I'd have to wait some 38 minutes for the next bus. To kill time I walked to the next bus stop. And again, to the next bus stop. And then I saw that there was a Bank America by the stop, so I popped in for some cash. And I walked out and the 5:40 bus was driving off. Fsckin' A!
To kill time until the 6:40+ bus, I walked to the next stop. And the next. And the next. At each one I stopped for a minute or so to watch for the bus. Each was easily within eyesight of the last. At 6:30 I checked the schedule for my bus transfer - I needed to be downtown (a total of 2 miles from my start location) for the 6:50 Route 11. I walked to the next stop. And the next. At 6:40, when the bus was supposed to arrive at the start location, I realized I was close enough to downtown that I might as well keep walking.
At 7:02 I arrived downtown, and I'd never been passed by the 6:40 #30 bus. One hour to walk two miles with a decently heavy bookbag. I missed the 6:50 #11, but I sat around for ten or fifteen minutes and got the 7:20 #11. Home around 7:30 made the whole trip nearly an hour and a half.
My car's currently at the Chrysler dealer since the computer Aaron was gonna try wasn't the right one.
ETA: My down coat (it's winter out there!) weighs 3.5 lbs, while my bookbag is a mere 16.5. Together they're 20 lbs. Two miles with 20 lbs. That's a lot. :(
