This has nothing to do w/ worship or my purpose or vision at all. I just wanted to give a kinda fun update. So, some of you may know, I've been taking the bus/train recently because I was in a car accident a few weeks ago. I hadn't taken public transportation in LA since my 1st couple of years in college and never in the Valley, so this has been a learning experience.
Bottom line, I'm not a fan of public transportation & I thought I'd share some reasons:
REASONS I NEED TO STOP RIDING THE BUS/TRAIN:
- Weird schedules - I'm either late to everything or super early.
- The man practicing his martial arts skills on the pole scares me.
- The air conditioning is ALWAYS blasting. Am I the only person who has to bring extra clothes just to ride the bus?
- It costs $1.25 each way, but it's on the honor system (on the Orange Line & train). So nobody checks to make sure you bought a ticket (except for those poor cops from the LA County Sheriff's Dept who get stuck w/ ticket duty once every few weeks). It's like 4 integrity checks each day (because I buy 4 tickets a day).
- No personal space (especially in the evenings). People are crammed in like farm animals. I'm really just not a fan of strangers touching me.
- GERMS - Too many people coughing, sneezing, blowing their nose, etc. Now imagine hundreds of germy people going in and out of the buses/trains everyday and touching stuff. EWW GROSS!
- Running to catch a bus or train and then feeling stupid when you're too late anyway. Plus I'm all kinds of out of shape, so there's the shortness of breath to endure.
- Weird smells - Need I say more?
