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19 things you'll only understand if you don't have a car

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Old 10-30-15, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by wolfchild
There is no excuse for being late...Discipline yourself to wake up earlier, plan ahead, prepare for unexpected things like having a flat. Familiarize yourself with bus schedules and arrive at your bus stop few minutes before the bus comes. Don't leave everything until the last minute.
If only that worked with the OCTA Bus System. Here a late bus is often actually the next scheduled and the bus you planned on arriving at the stop early never even showed.

My bike is far more reliable!
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If only that worked with the OCTA Bus System. Here a late bus is often actually the next scheduled and the bus you planned on arriving at the stop early never even showed.

My bike is far more reliable!
Exactly. My bicycle is more reliable than any car I ever had. Ride bike!
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Originally Posted by fthomas
Here a late bus is often actually the next scheduled and the bus you planned on arriving at the stop early never even showed.
That happened to me in Santa Barbara once. I rode the Greyhound up from L.A. and I was anticipating a 10 mile walk that night because I knew that the last local bus left an hour before the Greyhound arrived. To my astonishment, there it was waiting for me .

The next day, riding the same route again, another passenger was complaining how the evening before, the last bus never came by even though he was waiting for it and finally had to walk. I realized he was waiting for the bus that I caught.
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They got to 19 and couldn't think of just one more??
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They got to 19 and couldn't think of just one more??
As I've mentioned ... it's Buzzfeed. Just people (who have probably had a bit to drink) submitting "funny" lists. Maybe he passed out at 19.
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Originally Posted by Walter S
They got to 19 and couldn't think of just one more??
It's kind of a silly tradition on this silly website to post lists with 19 items, or some other odd number.
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I've been voluntarily car free for one year and a half right now.. Most of those are ridiculously wrong.
Not even that funny except for one or two of them.
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Originally Posted by wolfchild
There is no excuse for being late...Discipline yourself to wake up earlier, plan ahead, prepare for unexpected things like having a flat. Familiarize yourself with bus schedules and arrive at your bus stop few minutes before the bus comes. Don't leave everything until the last minute.
Wow, is that how you do it?
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Car-free 11 years, car-lite 4 years before that. I ride a bus less than 20 days per year, when surface conditions are TOO BAD to ride, or the RARE day when I think it's a bit too chilly (-5F or lower, generally).
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Originally Posted by Walter S
They got to 19 and couldn't think of just one more??
They had 20 people in the circle, and one just crapped out on the rest.
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