{"id":1070,"date":"2008-07-31T18:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2008-07-31T18:21:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:21:28","slug":"reason-7219-to-not-ride-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/31\/reason-7219-to-not-ride-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #7219 to Not Ride the Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a confession.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate buses.\u00c2\u00a0 I know, they are an integral component of any complete and efficient public transportation system.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind shared space, I appreciate not driving, etc.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So you&#8217;d think I would like buses.\u00c2\u00a0 Nuh uh.\u00c2\u00a0 Can&#8217;t stand them.\u00c2\u00a0 I would rather take three different trains than one direct bus.\u00c2\u00a0 I would rather pay $150 and suffer TSA than take the $20 dragon express to NYC.\u00c2\u00a0 Hate hate hate.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was an early imprint thing.\u00c2\u00a0 As a (very small) kid, my mother and I took a bus from Phoenix to Tuscon to see my father (temporarily working at Ft. Huachuca).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In the summer.\u00c2\u00a0 With no air conditioning.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I am still probably a little melted around the edges, from that.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe it was the school bus in Germany.\u00c2\u00a0 Super-luxe buses (tv&#8217;s, bathrooms, etc.), but the bus driver was drunk.every.day.\u00c2\u00a0 As in closing the doors on kids, stopping short, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Not really a fun way home.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you might think I&#8217;m kidding, or trying to be funny.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Canada\/2008\/07\/31\/6317416.html\">another reason to not ride the bus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man was stabbed to death then beheaded on a Greyhound bus in an apparent random act of violence, according to an eyewitness.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . .]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He calmly walked up to the front (of the bus) with (the victim&#8217;s) head in his hand and the knife and then dropped the head in front of us,&#8221; Caton said, adding he believes the suspect later returned to the back of the bus and was seen later &#8220;taunting police with the head in his hand out the window.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Caton said the suspect appeared calm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What struck me, it was like he was at the beach or something,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay away from the buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a confession.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate buses.\u00c2\u00a0 I know, they are an integral component of any complete and efficient public transportation system.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind shared space, I appreciate not driving, etc.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So you&#8217;d think I would like buses.\u00c2\u00a0 Nuh uh.\u00c2\u00a0 Can&#8217;t stand them.\u00c2\u00a0 I would rather take three different trains than one direct bus.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}