Let's analyze this photo for a bit.  There's a nice, big green recycling bin and a smaller, grey garbage bin for trash and non-recyclables.  Then we have a big bag of stinky trash as well as some newspapers, a bottle and a can. 

Which bin should the trash go into?  Which bin should the recycling items (paper, plastic/glass, aluminum) go into? 


hmmmm...I know...it's a toughy. 

OH! You think the trash should go in the trash bin and the recycling should go in the recycle bin???  My, my, you're like ONE HUNDRED TIMES SMARTER THAN MY ROOMMATES!!!!!!

 

I sat next to a super inconsiderate man on BART this morning.  He sat on the aisle seat and wouldn't move over when I wanted to sit in the vacant seat next to him.  In fact, he barely moved aside so I could get by him.  Even though most people don't have the decency to move over to the window seat so it's easier for new riders to sit in the aisle seats, at least people usually get off their fat asses and let the other person get to the window seat.  But instead of AT LEAST that courtesy, I had to crawl over the guy and I bang my knee into the seat in front of me.  grrr

So I tried to give the guy the benefit of the doubt.  'Maybe he's getting off at the next stop, because it's a transfer stop,' I thought to myself.  But he didn't.  And he didn't get off at the airport or at Lake Merrit where a good portion of the train usually gets off to get to downtown Oakland.  AND, when we got to the Embarcadero (First stop in SF), he didn't even move.  What a prick.  Make my climb over him twice.  What's the point of that?!  Isn't it easier to sit by the window than to have someone you don't know climb over you to get in and out of the seat.  What a douche.

And he had the rankest breath.  Please people, if you're going to ride public transportation brush your teeth.  Take a shower.  DO NOT wear perfume or cologne.

Thank you.

People that confuse Advice for Advise.  

When I need my bosses to clarify something I send them an email that says, "Please advise."  But I often get requests from others that say, "Please advice." 

Small, but it irks me.  I think it's the copy editor in me.

Bart sucks.  Not only do they raise the price of tickets every few months or so without warning or informing the riders, but now they will start charging for parking.  They're not going to charge at every station, just the ones that attract the most people, aka, the people at the end of the line like me get screwed.  I have to deal with all the people from the tri-valley and the central valley outside of the bay area coming into my town and crowding our parking lots and trains.  When will we ever see a new station???  When will they make it easier for people to travel from Dublin to Walnut Creek (a 15 minute drive) without having to take three trains (about an hour ride depending on if the connection trains wait for the transferring trains).  When will people on the Dublin/Pleasanton line get as many trains (and train cars!) as the Pittsburg/Bay Point line that comes every 5 minutes as compared to the every 15 minutes my train comes.  We're just as crowded, if not MORE so, because of the lack of service.
But back to parking...the daily parking fee for everyone (including carpoolers who get the closest parking lot, to people like me who have to park in BoFo) is $1 a day. They have validation machines inside the stations that will take money off of your tickets - Lord knows this is going to be an issue, because the travelers at my station seem slow; as in special.  I'm sure there will be numerous times when one of the three will happen:
1. The person forgets which stall # they parked in and will hold up the line while they try to figure it out.
2. The person doesn't have enough money on their card to accomodate the $1 charge and hold up the line while they search for change to increase their card amount.
3. The person is just too damn slow and will hold me up as my train leaves the station.  I will wait another 15 minutes in either the freezing cold or the humidity (because there is no middle ground in Dublin in the mornings) and I'll be late for work.  

Here's the other issue, it may only be a dollar, but I still feel raped.  Why?  Because I'm sure it will get raised little by little till my current $10/day RoundTrip ticket becomes $20/day.  I can just see it now...and why do we continue to take "America's best public transportation system"?, because it's technically cheaper than filling up my gas tank every other day for a drive into the City and getting raped instead by the toll bridge.  

But that doesn't mean I can't still be pissed off.