pittsfield-jew

The first post says it all Shalom, This is the home of the Pittsfield Jew. Sure its neat to read about Jews in Brooklyn who are very observant but how about a not so observant Jew who lives in the Mid West?

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Riding Buses

Once again, here is a tale of a bus ride. Jonny got up at 7AM. He let Lucy the dog out. He rode his bike to work. It was 2 miles.

Ah the story is interrupted by Angelina's call to Jonny's cell. Jonny had called to tell her he sent her fax. Angelina called to say that Jonny needs to thank her. She just coordinated their synagogue bill. There now this blog is about Judaism again.

Jonny feels he is a terrible writer.

He looked up the bus route. They have a magic bus website. There you can see the buses moving on the map. It didn't help. Jonny ran to catch a bus at 9:15. He had a VSAFE governor's meeting scheduled for 10 at Death Valley. Now only if you live in Manhattan would you appreciate this story. The distance from the Hilton Hotel to Death Valley is 5 miles. The schedule says it takes 45 minutes to get to the bee hive from the Hilton. The Bee Hive is about 1 mile from Death Valley.

Therefore Jonny had enough time to get to the meeting. He got on the wrong bus. This bus that he sprinted to catch rode around for a half an hour. Then it went back to the Hotel California. Jonny finally got off the bus at the Cancer Center. There he waited for the Intercampus. This finally showed up. He asked the driver of three buses in a row, "are you going to the East Ann Arbor". This driver said yes. Last time Jonny took this bus he told the driver before they got to the bee hive to keep going. You see this 45 minute ride, doesn't include the optional on-request trip to death valley.

When Jonny did that, the driver got really snarly. He said the procedure is to tell the driver when you get on the bus. Jonny assumed the driver like most drivers in real life would want to know right before the turn, not 45 minutes in advance. Then another passenger said, she was going to building A in death valley. Jonny was going to building L. Then he got off at A. Then the driver said, you can go to building H. This was because "didn't you hear the radio". So he stayed on the bus. He went to building H. Then the driver let him depart with the fifth lecture in about 15 minutes span.

Jonny went into Death Valley. Only to find out the meeting wasn't happening. So he excused himself. Then he called the university to get a bus. You have to call to get a bus to pick you up. They only come to buildings M, H or A. He waited in the hot sun outside building H for a few minutes. Then at 11:15 he was back up in the 6th floor of the Hilton.

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