From the Back of the Bus

Mass Transit in NYC is its own event. I defy any Olympian to have the stamina, the fortitude to fight their way through the...

Waiting
Weather
Hordes
Attitudes
Germs
Surfing
Braking
Body Odor (incl. dirty stench and perfume stench)
Rats
Flooding (incl. dripping)
Construction
Crowding
Fares
Garbage
iPod Noise
Kid Noise
Rude Noise
Noise Noise

While these things may make taking the bus or train seem like a bad deal - the trip is often tempered by entertainment of one kind or another. It's also pretty convenient not to get a $95 parking ticket every time you need to go somewhere - but that's the subject of another blog. Perhaps because I was an anthropology major, I end up feeling a bit like a participant observer most times I enter the transit world. You are now reading the culmination of many months (years?) of saved, unembellished, stories of transit adventure. Feel free to comment back with your own.