A Holiday Express Bus
Oct. 8th, 2007 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenThe express bus this morning was seriously EXPRESS! There were very few people coming into the city today since it was Columbus Day. My office, however, didn't have the day off. Our DC office did, but that's also because the government has off.
As a result, the bus was flying down River Road and passed by all the empty bus stops. One in a while, though, my bus driver stopped to chat with other bus drivers. No, not on the side of the road, or when he was already stopped, nor in a convenient spot. Nope, MY bus driver selected busy intersections to halt traffic to exchange greetings or comments with other drivers, or with an on-coming bus, he stopped traffic in both directions to chat up a female driver, who looked a little perturbed that he stopped her. We all were perturbed that he stopped our bus for that!
After I got off the bus, into Port Authority, and made my way downtown on the subway, there wasn't much place to sit, which is fine, usually, but today, given our weekend, it was a bit taxing; I was sleepy. I was on my way out of the station downtown about 20 minutes later meeting a bunch of cops walking through the station in twos and threes. Up one short staircase, I noticed a police hat scoot across the floor toward the railing chased after by a very cute, beefy cop smiling. He reached down to pick up his hat as another cop behind him hit him either in the side, the buttocks, or the shoulder, I couldn't see. They started pushing on each other and quietly cojoled each other as I glanced at them, chuckled, and steered my path out of the station up the exit stairs.
It was nice to take the usual route to work but make it to the office in 45 minutes rather than 65-70 minutes as usual.
As a result, the bus was flying down River Road and passed by all the empty bus stops. One in a while, though, my bus driver stopped to chat with other bus drivers. No, not on the side of the road, or when he was already stopped, nor in a convenient spot. Nope, MY bus driver selected busy intersections to halt traffic to exchange greetings or comments with other drivers, or with an on-coming bus, he stopped traffic in both directions to chat up a female driver, who looked a little perturbed that he stopped her. We all were perturbed that he stopped our bus for that!
After I got off the bus, into Port Authority, and made my way downtown on the subway, there wasn't much place to sit, which is fine, usually, but today, given our weekend, it was a bit taxing; I was sleepy. I was on my way out of the station downtown about 20 minutes later meeting a bunch of cops walking through the station in twos and threes. Up one short staircase, I noticed a police hat scoot across the floor toward the railing chased after by a very cute, beefy cop smiling. He reached down to pick up his hat as another cop behind him hit him either in the side, the buttocks, or the shoulder, I couldn't see. They started pushing on each other and quietly cojoled each other as I glanced at them, chuckled, and steered my path out of the station up the exit stairs.
It was nice to take the usual route to work but make it to the office in 45 minutes rather than 65-70 minutes as usual.
