Transit
October 7, 2005
The woman who boarded the green line train I was riding on Saturday afternoon seemed like a perfectly sweet older lady. When she pulled out her coffee and danish, I supposed to myself that she was probably a diabetic and therefore earned herself a special, if not legal, dispensation to eat and drink on Metro. If she hadn’t seemed so nice, I probably would have taken pleasure out of hating her when she dropped her coffee, got up to retrieve it, and then held it over the man sitting in front of her, not realizing that coffee was pouring out of the styrofoam cup and onto the man’s windbreaker. Usually I really enjoy loathing people who do things like that, but when she did it, I could only feel bad that she’d lost her breakfast.
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Last night, there was a fairly loud accident outside my building. With the intersection as formidable as it is, I was surprised that I hadn’t seen or heard many wrecks. There is a lot of horn-honking and tire-screeching, but few wrecks. In the past two weeks, I have seen a completely overturned van, a surprisingly-not-dead bicyclist hit by a car, and this latest fender-bender all in what seemed to be nearly identical accidents. I have stopped using that road on my way home.
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When I e-mailed MTA two weeks ago regarding an opening date for the Woodberry light rail stop, I was quoted a date of November 1 (pushed back from the original “early fall.” The MTA Web site now promises “mid-December.” I am beginning to think I’ll be lucky if it opens before my lease runs out in April.
negative karma around, uh?
keep up bro
When I lived in Baltimore, I mad eit my business to avoid certain intersections where I had seen more than a few fender benders. My drive home was longer, but less harried.
I hate it when people eat on the train.
Yeah. I still haven’t been able to get that fuckin’ coffee out of my windbreaker and in some places it burned a hole. If I ever seee that bitch again I’ll really fist fuck her.
There really are certain intersections that are accident prone. There’s an intersection like this near my office and almost every other week the office hears an accident that had just happened outside. Usually these accidents occur around rush hour. I avoid this intersection too when I’m trying to get home.