My adventure on DART
Jul. 22nd, 2004 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorhathorDART stands for Dallas Area Rapid Transit. I wish I could think of a snappy retort, like Dallas Area ... R... Transit. My brain doesn't want to work. Basically I had a big adventure on DART today and now I'm pretty tired with hurty feet. But I have to get used to this, which I'm sure I will eventually.
I was heading to Richland College because that's my alumni school and they offer job placement services to old grads. Job placement services = free faxing, free internet access, sample letters (I so hate writing cover letters; they're just, "Here's where I kiss your ass!" letters), and books to look through with job postings in them. So they're not headhunters, but it's something. It took all afternoon to get my job stuff organized (jobs I got out of the paper that I wanted to fax my resume to) and to get all the DART scheds I needed off their website. I have this thing about wanting to board buses at official stations instead of just on the street because it feels safer. The idea of standing around on a street corner 'til the next bus comes just feels so eeeuuuugh to me, unless the bus stop is right by my house. So, that added some extra time onto my commute. After today, I may have to get over it so I don't spend so long riding all over town. :P
Anyway, I start off walking to the bus stop a little after 4. Almost there, and I realize that I FORGOT MY RESUME. >_< I'm such a freakin' doof sometimes. Walk back home, put the resume on a disc, and start off walking AGAIN. Bus comes a little after 5. No one will take my bedraggled old ten dollar bill, but it's the only bill I have. I asked the driver if I could pay for a day pass when I get to the big bad station, and he says sure. Get to the station. None of the machines will take my ten either. They usually do, but this ten was really beat up. All the machines keep spitting it back out. Suddenly, this guy getting off the train walks by, sees me having trouble, and goes, "Do you want this? It's good for another week" and hands me a MONTHLY PASS for July. O_O WOW, that was nice. I told him THANK YOU!! The monthly pass fairy was watching over me today. He must've not been planning to use it anymore. So I get a free ride until August, yay!
I took the train south a bit, take another bus to Richland, and did about ten minutes of stuff until the job placement office had to CLOSE. Yup, I got there about 15 minutes to closing. The office had been moved, so I had to FIND it first, and by the time I got there, didn't have much time left. But I got the ball rolling, at least.
Now it's time to go home. The bus is late, and the train is late; the combination of both makes me miss the last good bus that goes within a couple blocks of my home, so I had to wait about 35 minutes for the next one. (This bus has less trips after 7 pm.) Finally, I get home. And the trip home took about 2 1/2 hours because of all that!! Man, I'm beat.
I did go by Walgreens on the way home and got some gum and a Vanilla Coke. ^_^ Ahhh, Nilla Coke. That was my guilty pleasure for today. Then I walked a couple blocks home in the pitch black with "ch ch ch, ah ah ah" going on in my mind, constantly looking over my shoulder for serial killers. I live in a "safe" neighborhood, but I'm paranoid about that shit because I read so many true crime novels. Many many women disappear from "safe" neighborhoods every day.
I would just like to thank the mass transit god for giving me DART although it frustrated me today, because I have no idea how I'd get around without it at times. DART never bitches for having to take me on errands. It just says, "Yes ma'am" and off we go. ^_^
Best thing is, I get to do all this again tomorrow! Wee? It shouldn't be as bad, though, because I'll be getting a much earlier start with many more buses running, and I have my MONTHLY PASS which makes bus drivers nod and wave me on. ::Does the Dance of the Monthly Pass:: Doodly doodly doo, doodly doodly doo, it's a free ride for yoooooou... (for once)
I'm taking my discman tomorrow. Tunes. ^_^
I haven't used this rather yummy icon for awhile. Mmmm, hustler...
I was heading to Richland College because that's my alumni school and they offer job placement services to old grads. Job placement services = free faxing, free internet access, sample letters (I so hate writing cover letters; they're just, "Here's where I kiss your ass!" letters), and books to look through with job postings in them. So they're not headhunters, but it's something. It took all afternoon to get my job stuff organized (jobs I got out of the paper that I wanted to fax my resume to) and to get all the DART scheds I needed off their website. I have this thing about wanting to board buses at official stations instead of just on the street because it feels safer. The idea of standing around on a street corner 'til the next bus comes just feels so eeeuuuugh to me, unless the bus stop is right by my house. So, that added some extra time onto my commute. After today, I may have to get over it so I don't spend so long riding all over town. :P
Anyway, I start off walking to the bus stop a little after 4. Almost there, and I realize that I FORGOT MY RESUME. >_< I'm such a freakin' doof sometimes. Walk back home, put the resume on a disc, and start off walking AGAIN. Bus comes a little after 5. No one will take my bedraggled old ten dollar bill, but it's the only bill I have. I asked the driver if I could pay for a day pass when I get to the big bad station, and he says sure. Get to the station. None of the machines will take my ten either. They usually do, but this ten was really beat up. All the machines keep spitting it back out. Suddenly, this guy getting off the train walks by, sees me having trouble, and goes, "Do you want this? It's good for another week" and hands me a MONTHLY PASS for July. O_O WOW, that was nice. I told him THANK YOU!! The monthly pass fairy was watching over me today. He must've not been planning to use it anymore. So I get a free ride until August, yay!
I took the train south a bit, take another bus to Richland, and did about ten minutes of stuff until the job placement office had to CLOSE. Yup, I got there about 15 minutes to closing. The office had been moved, so I had to FIND it first, and by the time I got there, didn't have much time left. But I got the ball rolling, at least.
Now it's time to go home. The bus is late, and the train is late; the combination of both makes me miss the last good bus that goes within a couple blocks of my home, so I had to wait about 35 minutes for the next one. (This bus has less trips after 7 pm.) Finally, I get home. And the trip home took about 2 1/2 hours because of all that!! Man, I'm beat.
I did go by Walgreens on the way home and got some gum and a Vanilla Coke. ^_^ Ahhh, Nilla Coke. That was my guilty pleasure for today. Then I walked a couple blocks home in the pitch black with "ch ch ch, ah ah ah" going on in my mind, constantly looking over my shoulder for serial killers. I live in a "safe" neighborhood, but I'm paranoid about that shit because I read so many true crime novels. Many many women disappear from "safe" neighborhoods every day.
I would just like to thank the mass transit god for giving me DART although it frustrated me today, because I have no idea how I'd get around without it at times. DART never bitches for having to take me on errands. It just says, "Yes ma'am" and off we go. ^_^
Best thing is, I get to do all this again tomorrow! Wee? It shouldn't be as bad, though, because I'll be getting a much earlier start with many more buses running, and I have my MONTHLY PASS which makes bus drivers nod and wave me on. ::Does the Dance of the Monthly Pass:: Doodly doodly doo, doodly doodly doo, it's a free ride for yoooooou... (for once)
I'm taking my discman tomorrow. Tunes. ^_^
I haven't used this rather yummy icon for awhile. Mmmm, hustler...
