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bigmacbear) wrote2009-05-31 10:42 pm
bigmacbear) wrote2009-05-31 10:42 pm
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Bus Observations of the Past Week
There are a lot of sk8r boys on the Community Transit 105 bus from UW Bothell into Mill Creek. Some look to be high-schoolers and others are of college age.
Spotted a kid of about fifteen or so who is bigger around than I am at nearly three times his age.
Someone finally claimed that T-shirt from "The Rapture Comes To Bothell", if only to throw it away.
Thursday they sent the short bus (it's a real bus, not a conversion van like Metro's short buses, but it has only one door and seats about a dozen fewer people than a normal bus) for the 5:07pm (i.e., rush hour) run past my office. As McCoy once said to Spock, "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" Needless to say the bus filled up pretty rapidly. There was this really nice-looking young man in the side-facing seat, and when the crowd had dissipated somewhat I complimented him on his ink: four or five separate tattoo pieces that covered most of his left arm. We both stayed on the bus to the end of the line, where he switched to a northbound bus for downtown Everett and perhaps beyond, and I picked up my parked car.
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gmjambear and I worked out another plan for Adventures in Public Transportation, whereby we would each park at South Everett (me in the morning for work, and him in the evening) and meet up downtown on our way somewhere -- in this case to Captain Smartypants' show "Air Smarty" in Columbia City. So after work I caught the 105 to UW Bothell to connect with the 522 to downtown Seattle. Imagine my surprise when the cute illustrated man from the previous evening's bus ride left the 522 bus I was just boarding. So now I figure he's coming from Woodinville all the way to Everett if not beyond. Man, that is a commute.
After the show -- which deserves a post of its own -- we caught the Metro #7 bus right outside the theater along withweekilter, who pointed out the funeral home from Six Feet Under as we passed. We also saw one of the new light rail trains overhead, entering the Beacon Hill tunnel westbound. A woman sitting at the front of the bus was asking the driver a lot of questions about bars and how to find a good Irish pub in Seattle. My guess is she'd been at one of the bars in Columbia City and they'd cut her off on account of being drunk.
To cap off the evening, as we were waiting for the 510 bus back to our cars in South Everett, we watched as the driver of a 594 bus from Tacoma operated the wheelchair lift on the huge coach they use for the Tacoma runs. The passenger got off the bus via the lift safely, but the driver had a lot of trouble getting the door to close and had to run the lift up and down a couple of times before it would work.
Spotted a kid of about fifteen or so who is bigger around than I am at nearly three times his age.
Someone finally claimed that T-shirt from "The Rapture Comes To Bothell", if only to throw it away.
Thursday they sent the short bus (it's a real bus, not a conversion van like Metro's short buses, but it has only one door and seats about a dozen fewer people than a normal bus) for the 5:07pm (i.e., rush hour) run past my office. As McCoy once said to Spock, "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" Needless to say the bus filled up pretty rapidly. There was this really nice-looking young man in the side-facing seat, and when the crowd had dissipated somewhat I complimented him on his ink: four or five separate tattoo pieces that covered most of his left arm. We both stayed on the bus to the end of the line, where he switched to a northbound bus for downtown Everett and perhaps beyond, and I picked up my parked car.
Friday
gmjambear and I worked out another plan for Adventures in Public Transportation, whereby we would each park at South Everett (me in the morning for work, and him in the evening) and meet up downtown on our way somewhere -- in this case to Captain Smartypants' show "Air Smarty" in Columbia City. So after work I caught the 105 to UW Bothell to connect with the 522 to downtown Seattle. Imagine my surprise when the cute illustrated man from the previous evening's bus ride left the 522 bus I was just boarding. So now I figure he's coming from Woodinville all the way to Everett if not beyond. Man, that is a commute.After the show -- which deserves a post of its own -- we caught the Metro #7 bus right outside the theater along with
weekilter, who pointed out the funeral home from Six Feet Under as we passed. We also saw one of the new light rail trains overhead, entering the Beacon Hill tunnel westbound. A woman sitting at the front of the bus was asking the driver a lot of questions about bars and how to find a good Irish pub in Seattle. My guess is she'd been at one of the bars in Columbia City and they'd cut her off on account of being drunk.To cap off the evening, as we were waiting for the 510 bus back to our cars in South Everett, we watched as the driver of a 594 bus from Tacoma operated the wheelchair lift on the huge coach they use for the Tacoma runs. The passenger got off the bus via the lift safely, but the driver had a lot of trouble getting the door to close and had to run the lift up and down a couple of times before it would work.