Afternoon

My timepiece read 16:55, so I wrapped up my work activities and prepared my backpack. It took shorter than expected to get my bike down the elevator at work and down 3 blocks to the bus stop. I waited just 3 minutes and then along came a bus with my number of it. Sooner than I expected! It was a city-style bus with just one of the two front bike racks empty. I loaded my bike and tried to find a seat. It was very crowded. I learned that most of the people sitting near me were not happy, as this was the earlier bus than I usually catch, but had been running late. To make matters worse, the driver was new and didn’t know the route so he enters the wrong freeway and then tries to correct himself by exiting and winding through town. He finally made it back to his route with the help of the riders at the front. What a stressful job, bus driver. With a payload full of critics sitting just over your shoulder. The UTA puts a large LCD display on the dash of each of the buses that tells the driver the current time. Can’t the UTA add GPS functionality for the sake of drivers and passengers alike? With the side-trip, we are late to our destinations, of course.