I just had the most ghetto experience. The bus drivers union is on strike. So no buses are running... except a few. There's only one that takes me home and it comes at 7:30. I get off of work at 6. So tonight I wait like I usually do and the bus comes at it's normal time. So I get on... and the driver goes about 5 mph. Finally after about 5 blocks he stops the bus, get's off, runs to a payphone and makes a call. By this time I've already figured out that the front door won't close and he won't drive the bus that way. So I assumed that he went to call the main office... or whatever they call it. I was right. The bus wasn't going anywhere. I was stranded with 20 other people who were desperate to get home to downtown LA... and they were loud about it...



So, finally the drivers supervisor shows up and withing minutes he figures that, yes, the door is broken. So, what now? Being the nice guy that he is, the supervisor decides to take all 21 people from the bus in his van on the route... the van was only supposed to hold like 10. Being the nice guy that I am, I let everyone on before me. I need to stop being a nice guy. I was forced to sit on the floor, smashed up against the door. That sucked.



At this point, after already waiting for a half hour, I was happy to just be going home finally. Only, at one point, everyone that happened to be going to downtown LA decided that it would be better if he just drove straight there. That would only be, oh, 50 miles away from my home... in BURBANK! Luckily, through the yelling and bitching brought on by everyone in the van, the supervisor decided just to stay on the regular route...



Until he saw an out of service bus go by. So he called him up, had him stop and take us through the rest of the route... I got home...



I hate the bus. I really do...