Public Transit...

...just pisses the hell out of me. Technically, it's not exactly PUBLIC TRANSIT that pisses me off. It's the PEOPLE using the Public Transit (ie. LRT, ETS, etc...) who just piss me off, hence completely destroying my day. So if I am having a bad day...well then it's most likely that one screaming kid on the bus who just ruined it for me...at 7 o'clock in the freaking morning. Maybe you don't own a vehicle of your own or maybe your car is totally destroyed because you are an idiot driver or it was destroyed because of an idiot driver or maybe you just want to, "go green." Whatever your situation maybe, I completely understand, but for God's sake just contain yourself. Now, usually I drive my dad's old car...nothing too special. It's a 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid. Typical for an Asian, but hey it's a car that works. Or I get rides to and from places (thanks dad!) Sometimes, it likes to just break down on it's own and therefore it ends up in the shop...that's also usually when I'm forced to take the bus...like today!

My days start off early....way too early and end way too late. As in I wake up at six in the morning and automatically, I got so many things to do and I come home basically at midnight just to sleep for literally five hours. My bus at the back of my house to destination "A" comes at 7:32AM, and I just want to clarify that even though that bus stop is behind my backyard, waiting for five minutes feels like a damn long time...especially when you're waiting in the cold...in the morning. ESPECIALLY when you're thinking about that nice warm bed that you could still be curled up in. (I'm sure everyone can relate to this.) So there I am, waiting in this freezing cold weather because I'm crazy enough to still be living in Canada...(free health-care...eh?) and I get on that first bus to go to destination "A" and everything is fine, bus driver is super nice, it's all the people from my neighbourhood, we're all friends and it's all good. Then I get to destination "A" and I have to get off the nice, warm bus again, out into the cold and I have to wait like half an hour for my next bus to arrive. Seriously. It's a long wait. And surrounding me are crazy people. I can't say that about everyone, so if you know you're not a crazy person, don't worry about it. But if you're one of those pathetic losers with no home, no job...nobody, who hang out at transit stations and hobbling up to me saying, "Scuze me miss, can you spare me some change?" Uh...no. Not 'cause I'm not nice but you're probably going to go spend my hard earned 2 bucks that I just gave you, on crack and booze. I'm also broke as fuck, so go find a job. Stripper. Janitor. Whatever. Anything that will fund your loony ways...go for it. I also always comtemplate on giving them the, "Jenna Marbles face" but I haven't exactly come up with the courage to do that yet. I'm not that weird. (She is definitely my inspiration for writing this blog though.)

Now that I've dealt with that smelly bum, I see my bus coming and holy mother, I've never been more excited to be finally sitting down. Holy shit, I thought wrong because that bus is just loaded with people. So guess what? I have to stand for an hour holding my crap in one hand, holding onto a pole with the other while being squashed by everyone else who didn't get a seat. Thing is, I could be sitting down too, only that bitch sitting down put her shit on the seat that I could have had. You have a lap for a reason, put your shit on your own two legs woman!

Another thing that just pisses me off: As I'm standing there minding my own business, trying to stay positive on my hour long ride, I hear this blaring, banging shit thing that I like to call noise but to some kids, it's "music." One thing, you shouldn't be listening to it 'cause it sucks...and it makes my own ears bleed. Hi, I'm a pianist and vocalist so I should know what music really is. And I assume it's some loser dressed in baggy pants and piercings and tattoos coming out of his face listening to his iPod, mp3, BlackBerry...whatever, but NO it's like a twelve year old girl rocking away to that shit and I just want to SUH-LAP her. It's freaking eight o'clock in the morning, shouldn't you be listening to something like Beethovan? Mozart? Clementi? No? Never heard of those guys? ...clearly you're probably not that well educated which is also the reason behind why you didn't know that you can blow out your ears by cranking those ear buds up way too loud.

Eighteen year-olds with like fifteen million kids...I was just talking about this with a friend who I had coffee with just on Wednesday. GOOGLE the word, "CONTRACEPTIVES." Too big of a word for you? GOOGLE the word, "BIRTH CONTROL." Do you NOT use...rubbers? Do you NOT believe in them? ...Well, I guess you can't believe in something that you've never even heard of! So take my advice and Google all that, then maybe you will have less kids and you can remember their names and the STD rate in America will just hopefully decrease and you won't have to drag your zillions of stinkin' children out to piss off the public...on the bus.

What really bothers the most is seeing all the little elementary/junior high kids on the bus. Not the school bus, but the actual "ETS" bus. It actually hurts my heart to see them on there, and this is where I get pissed off with their parents...I don't even know who their parents are! Call me spoiled but when I was at that age, I always got safe rides to and from school everyday from either my mom, my dad, my uncle, my aunt and the list goes on. Where are your freaking parents and/or family members? Like this child is ten. He/she don't deserve this! What did your child ever do to you? You're the one who gave birth to the God damn kid, you take care of him/her until that day when he says, "It's lame to be driven to school by your parents" and then you know, it's safe to let your baby fly because he/she can handle it because he/she is in highschool! Don't be bitching and whining to the media when your child has been abducted and expecting everyone to find your kid for you...go find them yourself! You're the one who let them take the bus. It's a scary place. Drive your child (Kindergarten to grade eight) to school!

As I'm about half-way to destination "B" and thinking about how pissed off I am already, this foul odour just fills my nostrils up. Oh yeah, as if I'm not having a crappy morning already, I'm standing next to some filthy weirdo curled up into a ball in the corner. You have money to take the bus -and hey! you own a freaking iPhone!- GO take a shower! For the love of God, just please use some shampoo and soap and hot water and if you don't have shampoo and soap and access to hot water, I'm sure alot of public bathrooms have all that crap. So just please...go use it.

I just really wanted to make it clear to people that I'm not racist or have anything against fat people. But just one tiny thing: What is it with like all the ethnic people and talking super loud to one another?! Whether you're Chinese, or Mandarin or Cantonese, Vietnamese, Indian, Fiji...an, Pakistanian, Iranian, African, Souda Arabian, like you're sitting literally 2 centimetres away from eachother...no need to scream in eachother's faces...this is not a bar or a club or a riot. And for those screaming into their phones...well just shut the hell up. Nobody gives a shit about listening to your blahblahblah conversation that's not in English first thing in the morning...or any given time of the day.

So that's basically how I live life in the first hour and a half of my day. Seven different things that just piss me off as soon as I wake up. I literally pay $2.85 for a headache. That money could have gone towards a nice hot Starbucks. Sucks hey? So next time you're on a bus, just think about the things that people do to piss you off and don't do it! Remember to always be considerate, where ever you may be. Especially on the bus.

-chantalnguyen