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| 5 APR 2010 at 2:42am |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Hello everyone! As of Saturday, I'm no longer going to have to ride the city busses in my area in order to go to the mall - the busses are being taken away from our close-by area, and btw having to ride the bus was (since I started riding them 40 years ago) a pain in the butt. I am working on getting a dependable ride on a regular basis to the mall (as well as other places) and this ride will enable me to go from our house, all the way to where I want to go. Coming back home will be the same, only in reverse.
Riding the bus was a pain for me because the bus was often very late, they'd take me way, way out of my way just to go up the road 5 miles to the mall, and I'd have to change busses often with long layovers between busses. Also the busstop booths near the mall have graffiti written all over them and sometimes there was graffiti on the inside of the busses, too - this made me feel like I "took a step down" in life from going places in the family car before I went to Trashnoma (the school that taught me how to ride the bus), and sometimes, the busses had some litter in them.
And now that I'm working on getting this ride, it's going to be a step up from riding the bus - a major upgrade in my life.
Saturday afternoon I enjoyed a combination Easter/Bus Riding Retirement Party at my Bible study teacher's house, since I did not ride the bus Saturday, nor Easter Sunday, nor afterword since the busses close by our house are being moved to a new, farther away route April 4, so today was the last day I hope to be having to ride the bus.
If all goes well, I'll get my new ride, and we can maybe throw a virtual Bus Riding Retirement Party here at JA perhaps and come celebrate with me?
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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| 5 APR 2010 at 5:08am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Sounds like you're very happy K515. But you didn't say what your new ride was going to be?
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| 6 APR 2010 at 1:17am |
ButterproofSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 299
Joined: 9 NOV 2007
Status : Online | easy caroline, it won't be a chocolate car 8-)
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| 14 APR 2010 at 8:34pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | You're so right, Caroline, when I finally do get my new ride, I'll be in my glory - when I started having to ride the bus I felt like it wasn't the best way to get around, I felt like I was getting 2nd best or even 3rd best, and it made me feel cheaper inside - but then that school (Trashnoma) that taught me how to ride them wasn't a very nice place b/c the students got into fights with each other, they used bad language, they bought cigarettes and smoked, even in places where you're not allowed to smoke, like on busses. And a couple of these students would use a shoe, a glass pop bottle as a weapon during a fight, and a boy made sexual gestures at me. I'm surprised they didn't go to a bar, get drunk and that the girls didn't get pregnant, although a girl did end up in a detention home. Also, a lot of the students were living in foster homes, and that school wanted to put me into a foster home, too, but my parents told them "no." So I ended up living at home with my family (which I really wanted).
Caroline, you asked what my new ride is - so I PM'ed you what this new ride is. And I remember a couple of years back you and I were corresponding via PM here at JA about Trashnoma (Technoma, that awful school I went to) so I think you might be familiar with the above.
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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| 14 APR 2010 at 11:43pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Yes I got your pm. I hope it all works out for you the way it should.
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| 20 APR 2010 at 12:40am |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Thanks, Caroline - I did get my ride, tho, it's a friend who will pick me up & take me home - in fact, 2 friends.
Cheers!
I'm PM-ing you.
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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