Games to Play on Transit #12 & 3/16

[mbarrick]

Probably on of the most dehumanising things about transit, aside from being herded like cattle into large tin cans with wheels, is living in bizarre fractions of an hour. You find yourself thinking things like, "Oh, crap: it's 7:13! I'll never make it to the corner for the 7:37, but with luck the 7:43 trian will get me to the 8:22 bus so I'll only be 6 minutes late."

You spend your time by the minute, rushing down paths to be places at 4:38 so you don't wind up standing mid-block on a suburban street next to a bench that faces the concrete rather than the park behind it, reading time by the small ticks and lamenting the 8 minutes of your life that will now be lost waiting for the next bus.

Comments

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of one of my ex-GF who always purposely set her alarm clock for 6:01am or 8:31am or 7:01am, etc. Freak

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

There might be a sane reason for that. Most alarm clocks' snooze buttons (for whatever insane reason) give you exactly 9 minutes.

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very much for sending us copies of the photos from SIN last mo. I don’t know where my head has been as of late but I kept forgetting to express my thanks. So Thanks! We all had a very deep belly giggle!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Of course you are totally welcome.

Shame the weather didn't cooperate with plans today :-(