MTA suck

[dragonlady7]

So I just stood out on the curb at my bus stop, just down the street from my house, for thirty minutes.
I even had a copy of the schedule. The bus is scheduled to hit the major intersection about 4 minutes from my house at 11:12. I put on an album on my iPod at 11:something (first song over at 11:09 by my iTunes' reckoning), puttered a moment, and was to the bus stop by 11:15-- the timestamp on the end of a song I know I was listening to at the stop.

Usually I get out there at ten after eleven and stand there just long enough to feel like a total idiot. It usually comes at like 11:18. I was definitely out there by then.

I waited until 11:25, when the 30A came by. The A only goes to University Station. I need the C. The C goes to the airport. So the bus stopped, because I was there, and I asked the driver, "Is the C behind you? It's a little late."
He shrugged. "Should be," he said, which I took to mean, "yes, I am the A that comes before the C and we are running late." Such has happened before, and I've gotten on the A by accident before. The buses never run early. They run right around 3-5 minutes late.

So I waited until 11:40. The bus gets me to the airport by 11:54, so I pretty much waited for most of my bus ride right there. Finally I said, "Fuck, I can't feel my face" and went back inside. The fucking 30C never came and I'm just going to have to catch the next one. Fuck it. It gets me there at 2:15, five minutes after the last acceptable clock-in time. That's just how it has to be. I have the fucking iTunes timestamp to prove to myself that I was there at the time the bus is supposed to be there.

I can only assume that the A that came by was either the 10:45 or the 11:37-- but it was nearly twenty minutes off schedule either way. I really don't know. I'm bewildered. Either my cellphone, computer, iPod, digital thermometer/clock, and all my wall clocks are off, or the buses are running on some weird alternate-reality schedule today. Although, about a minute after the freak A departed eastbound, I saw a westbound C go by-- which was five minutes late to hit the next major intersection (sched at 11:22).

And i've just noticed that I spelled "overprivileged" wrong in my previous entry. Eh well. Privilege rots the brain.


Hey, now I have time for a nap. Although I have to get out there twenty minutes early to wait for the next bus, just in case they're still running on Bizarro Time by then.

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Not to bogart your righteous indignation or anything

[(Anonymous)]

MTA <=> NFTA

- Z

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

If someone doesn't show up for work, they don't change the schedules around for it. That bus simply doesn't run. You can check whether this has happened by the number of people on the next bus - as in 'overwhelmed'.

So, no, no Bizarro Time, your clocks are not off, and no alternate reality. Just someone slept in today instead of going to work.