myOtaku.com: Ben

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1988-09-25
Gender
• Male
Location
• Groton, CT
Member Since
• 2003-07-31
Occupation
• Student, Lackey of Doom
Real Name
• Ben

Personal

Achievements
• Wrote a 157 page book and am working on a sequel that is 50+ pages long at the moment.
Anime Fan Since
• Eh...fifth grade, I think.
Favorite Anime
• Digimon Forever! Followed further back by Yu-Gi-Oh.
Goals
• Get my darn book ~~published...~~ REWRITTEN
Hobbies
• Writing, reading, IM'ing
Talents
• Writing and I have a knack for gaming.

myOtaku.com: Ben

Saturday, May 15, 2004

Ben On: Public Transportation
As suggested by the lovely Miss Mimmi! :D

Last year, I used to take the bus home from school a lot. I haven't been doing it as much this year, but I do take it when the occasion demands. The occasion has been rather insistent lately. My sister crashed one of our cars, the van soaks up gas like a sponge, and the only other thing we have is the rickety old standard.

So, my dad has been driving the van around, since he travels the least of the drivers we have. He's on medical leave from his job, so he's been doing assorted things about the house and running errands.

My mom works at a hospital and a clinic in a different city, though, so she needs the car to get there. My school is only a little bit out of her way, so she usually drives us up. She works several hours longer than we're in school, though, so she can't drive us home.

My dad is usually busy at the time I get out of school, but he doesn't want to drive up to our school with the van anyway. It's just too expensive now with the climbing gas prices.

So, when my sister can't find me a ride home, (she often finds herself one, somehow) I take the bus.

First off, there are two kinds of bus that service my school. There are these white and black ones; old, worn, and with thinly covered seats.

Then there are the new buses. Big, blue, and with plump cushions on every seat. It even has an elevated area in the back where you can sit to feel cool and aloof!

I've been on a blue bus only once. It doesn't make sense; it just doesn't. Two buses come to our school, one going to Groton, where I live, and one going to New London, where half of the school population lives.

Now, who should get the blue bus? The minority, who can comfortably fit in the blue bus? No, of course not. They cram every-freaking-body else into it. The white and black buses have room enough for the New London students, why make us take it? O_O

On a good day, there might be six people taking the bus. Two of them are me and my sister. Two others get off within a mile of the school. The other two get off with my sister and I at Sacred Heart. :p

The buses (both of them) bounce and awful lot. The whole thing feels rather loosely assembled, as if it's built to survive impact with something. Like, the road. ¬_¬

It does get sufficiently cool in the bus, though. There are windows enough to ventilate it well and get a nice breeze flowing through. I'll bet the blue bus has air conditioning. =/

And, another thing about these buses. Exhaust. They exude noxious fumes in nauseating quantities. It's particularly bad to catch a cloud when the bus peals out after dropping someone off. I've had that unpleasant experience.

Taxis I haven't had much experience with. Besides some of them almost hitting me, and blasting their exhaust in my face, I can't say that I come in contact with them much.

I think that exhausts the possibility of this topic. *snigger*

Any other ideas?

This Day in History: The Soviet Union begins to leave Afghanistan on May 15th, 1988 after a costly war with Muslim guerilla fighters supported by the CIA.

Good Thing of the Day: I'm #1 again! And I got some awesome new cards.

Bad Thing of the Day: So far? The heat is sort of a drag.
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