i live in a big city and i have often thought about taking a bus to/ from work... but our bus system shuts down way too early- and I, working in a bar that closes at 2 am, wouldn't have a way home- i have had to give coworkers rides home when they have had to stay at work later than they thought and couldn't get a bus. also, sitting at bus stops in 115 degree heat doesn't seem healthy.
i would love to live in a city like san fran that has such a great public transit system- but there are so few in the U.S.... Los Angeles is murder for getting around... your work and your school and your house and your dentist and your WHATEVER are all so far apart.
i will say, though, that our buses in my city are cool because some of them run off of some natural vegetable oil fuel or something like that.
and in response to everyone outside of the US who keeps reminding us that we're a bunch of babies and we don't know how to handle this crap and our gas is still cheaper than yours and we should stop bitching about it- yeah, we know... but take into account that this gas issue has seriously effected our budgets very suddenly- i don't even know where my grocery money is this week. i ate a muffin from 7-11 today and drank a pepsi at a friend's house. our incomes have not risen with the cost of living over the last almost ten years. yes, our government is to blame... but each individual on this board did not choose to have this government. most of us did not choose to have this government. and what can we do about it? sit here and let them do what they want and wait for another election day. why do you all (outside the US) have to keep reminding us that our government is stupid and to blame for all of these problems that the world is experiencing and that we are pathetic for whining about our situations because we brought this upon ourselves? sorry, but for a lot of us, we wanted something different, and life sucks right now, and many of us asked for a different president.
sorry for the rant (and you know i love you tommer
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