SFO and Public Transportation
So I’m sitting in the “commuter” terminal for United here at SFO writing this post. I missed my 9:25am flight to Burbank this morning. I don’t know why they call this airport the San Francisco Int’l. Airport. It’s hardly anywhere near San Francisco; it took almost an hour to get here on the BART. It is however a very big, clean, and generally nice looking airport. With the exception of the “commuter” terminal that I’m waiting in. This thing makes Burbank Airport look like LAX. I think they’re making us fly prop planes into Burbank. I’m really starting to miss my reliable Southwest flights out of Oakland right now.
So recently I’ve been lauding the public transportation I take to work every day as great. But I think that’s mostly been a form of optimism for myself. A recent spate of super-smelly people, including one dude who thought it would be cool to bring several bags of rotting TRASH onto the bus with him, have changed my view on public transport rather quickly. Sitting in traffic may suck but at least I don’t have to hold my breath while doing it.
Speaking of public transport, I saw a funny (weird?) thing the other day on the Muni train to work in SF. One of the seats near mine was wet. These seats are bowl shaped to accommodate our wonderfully bowl-shaped rear ends and in this particular bowl-seat there was a small pool of water. At the next stop, a portly fellow who must have been about 40 boarded the train and placed his rear end right on the seat that had a pool of water in it. I watched this happen, but I only caught the last split-second of him sitting; It was too late to warn him. So the train continued on its way and this guy didn’t move. He didn’t even make a funny face. Now, I KNOW he was sitting in a nice pool of water but the guy didn’t budge. I wonder if he even knew…he must have.
Well, the flight to B-town left at 11 and only one standby got on. Since I am still typing this you can figure out who did not get on the flight. Next one’s at 12:50pm and I think I’ll watch a Euro 2004 soccer match I’ve got until then.