Ah the bus. It’s wonderful. I was having a wierd morning this morning. Time was moving oddly. I was sure I was going to be late because two people in wheelchairs had to get on the bus. For those who don’t know, this involves them lowering the front of the bus on hydraulics. Then they have a ramp that they expand out from the front door way. Basically the floor of the bus kind of flips up. The person in the wheelchair drives on and the bus driver flips up all the chairs in the front of the bus, and seatbelts the wheelchair in place. For some reason everytime this happens I expect it to take a really long time. I guess this is some ingrained expectation of dealing with the disabled. The bus drivers manage to do all this in about 1.5 minutes though. Which is really fast, when you consider that lowering the bus, and expanding the ramp aren’t exactly quick and there’s nothing the bus driver can do to make it quicker. I’m also really impressed with the drivers. They’re very kind. But I digress.
So my internal clock is off, because I keep looking up, sure that I’ve missed my transfer. And then I finally looked up, and I saw a construction site. “Funny”, I thought, “I haven’t seen that construction site before. Must be new. Oh wait…” It was the construction site for the new lofts right in front of Paggi House at Lamar and Riverside. I’d missed my bus stop. Even worse, the next bus stop was about 1/4 mile east of lamar on Caesar Chavez. So I got out and had to walk back over the lamar pedestrian bridge, back to barton springs and lamar. It wasn’t a horrible walk, but I’d just finished running 4.5 miles earlier that morning. And it was really warm. Anyway, I caught the next bus and got to work a little before 10. Hopefully this will teach me to have patience with the disabled.