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I fucking hate public transport right now (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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So, a very talented friend of mine is having an exhibition of her art at a small town close to where I live. Its a 30 minute drive, but 2 hours on public transport, with 2 buses, one train, and a long walk under the summer sun on the way. Whatever, I'll sleep/read on the way, right?

so I show up at the bus station 10 minutes before the bus takes off, the bus arrives, and the driver gets off and turns off the bus. I think he's just going to the bathroom, to take a break, smoke a cigarette, whatever. Nope. He never returns.

I've now been standing at the bus station for an hour after the scheduled departure time, staring at the switched off bus, and fuming about how I have just lost 20 bucks because I missed all the other buses and trai (i had to buy the tickets beforehand), how now I can't get to the exhibition without being late for work, how I will have let down my friend by not showing up and supporting her, and how this wouldn't have happened if I just had a fucking car and wasn't a depressed mess who can't find energy to do anything until the very last moment, letting down everyone around me.

I don't normally get angry, but this whole thing has made me very upset.

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[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a shitty situation, but you should redirect your anger towards cars. Cars allowed public transport to decay into its present state. Everyone involved in setting the transit budget drives, so none of them are impacted when it shits the bed.

Of course, capitalism allowed cars to run roughshod over everything, but if you're going to hate something with four wheels, make it the Escalade, not the bus.