City Life Continued

I took public transportation to work today. I have no excuse not to do it everyday but today made a lot of sense. My 1st meeting was at the Museum of Natural History and my last meeting at the Public Library downtown. Trax basically took me door-to-door and I didn't have to add more miles taking a toll on my car or put expensive gas in my car, deal with parking, traffic and other annoyances associated with driving (let alone pollute). I forgot to add, Arian's sitter is 500 ft. from a Trax stop.


I did have to deal with another annoyance - the the public who ride public transportation.


On the way in the ride was uneventful and dare I say pleasant. On the way home...I was surrounded by bizarre, bizarre people. Waiting to board at the Library on one side of me was this woman speaking loudly about all the women in what I am assuming were her rehab center...it was about 5 minutes of a live Jerry Springer show. On my left, a man talking to a stranger about how you can't get a job in this country if you don't speak Spanish and that's why he was fired from his last job and the U.S. should take over Mexico instead of Iraq. Then I sat down on a crowded train across from this weird couple holding hands and sort of flirting in an odd way and talking loudly about how they should get together again soon and about their childhood puppies and kittens and family- all of the sudden the woman says, this is my stop and the guy awkwardly kissed her goodbye - it was so weird! Then, a few stops later a Latina woman got on with 5 young children. She sat next to me but the train was crowded and the little ones have to sit on the floor. I was appalled at the guy sitting across from us and another man just on the other side -purposely taking up 2 seats and never moving to allow the children to sit on chairs. My ride home was absolutely annoying and basically disgusted me regarding humanity. Yet, an important reality check about people and the public. I will likely subject myself to this all over again tomorrow and much more in the future. I think the city looks so much better from a distance than up close and personal. My ride home felt like I was in High Definition city life - not necessarily such a good thing.