The Rise and FALL of the Cta
There is a lot of weird shit that happens on Public Transportation. It ranges from people sleeping to strollers filled with groceries taking up the handicapped seats.
For the most part it's funny and pretty harmless....until it happens to you.
After a very mild December, winter has now arrived in Chicago. Hey, it's January...it's supposed to be cold and snowy. Deal with it!
I deal with it by being extra cautious. When the sidewalks are full of snow and ice, I walk with my head down, looking for the slick spots. It works. Zero falls last year during the worst winter in the history of the Earth.
This is how normal people walk onto a bus on a normal day. Tuesday was not a normal day.
I'm standing at a bus stop heading to a library. Here comes the bus. There are two logical places where it can stop. Spot A is full of snow and ice. Spot B is a clean space of side walk. Guess what the driver chose?
The door opens and the driver and I are having a stare down. First one to blink loses. Guess who blinked?
I started to enter the bus and you can all see where this is going, can't you?
I FELL INTO THE BUS!!
I know people who have fallen on the bus. I know people who have fallen off the bus. I may be the first to fall into a bus.
The driver and I had another stare down. I'm pretty sure I won this time because he waited for me to sit down before taking off. That never happens.
The only damage is I banged up my leg when it hit the edge of the step. Pretty painful when it happened and it was sore enough I had trouble sleeping the first night. But overall no real damage. My leg is still messed up but it could have been my head or arm. There isn't even a bruise which would have made a great picture for this story. Damn!
But what if it had been worse? It very easily could have been. All because the driver couldn't move up five feet.
I wonder what the buses are like in Los Angeles?
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