July 27th, 2011 Ah, Gimme A Break!

7/27/11 IB Blue Line train: I am sitting on the right-hand side of Budd car #2212, heading to Jefferson Park to catch the 270 Pace bus. Not long after the train pulls off from the Kedzie-Homan stop, a skinny young black woman busts into my car and says,

"Can anyone spare some change? I'm homeless, and I'm tryin' to get somethin' to eat."

I saw that same wench on the Kedzie-Homan platform, where I boarded, begging everyone for money. She even came up to me, but I backed away from her, out of fear that might've done something. Luckily for me, and every other innocent passenger on board this train, she exited at Western and went about her stupid business.

LATER
Jefferson Park Terminal: Here I am, waiting for a NB #270 Pace bus. I just missed one coming up from the Blue Line escalator, and I have to wait 20 minutes for another. No problemo, and I don't run after buses and trains, unless the situation calls for it which is extremely seldom.
So, I stand in around the terminal, and wait for the next one, amid darkening skies. I look to the southwest and there is a middle-aged, slim, blonde-haired man, wearing an AC/DC t-shirt, standing away from the bus lanes, and singing loudly and dancing. I occasionally look over at him, finding him repeating the same stuff, and then, I notice the earphones in his ears, but that discovery does not make me refrain from thinking,

"Just because you're wearing earphones doesn't mean that you have to dance around and make an ass out of yourself in public!"

AND LATER
SB #331 Cumberland Pace bus: I am heading to the Triton College Library to type up and print out some documents. It's a nice, smooth ride until a little soouth of Belmont Avenue in River Grove. Traffic is backed up, and the bus I'm on gets stopped! I look ahead to see what is going on, finding a Metra train stopping at the station. All of a sudden, the bus driver puts the bus in park, and then she steps off the bus to smoke a Newport cigarette. When I see this, I'm thinking,

"Now why are you doing this? This is a Metra train, not a freight train."

After the Metra train passes, I see the problem, a very slow-moving freight train! Not only does it move slowly, it actually stops completely! Numerous motorists turn their vehicles around and go the other way! The bus driver takes out the time to read a book! Because I had something to do in the area after Triton, I decide to get off the bus and frustratingly walk a couple blocks north to Belmont and board an EB #77 Belmont bus, throwing away the decision to go to Triton altogether!

AND LATER ON
WB Blue Line train: I am heading home, and I am sitting, relaxing, on the left-hand side of Budd car #2235. The ride is smooth and comfortable, everything's going just right, until the train gets to Jackson. The doors open and then close after passengers board, and then, suddenly, they open once more and stay open for a few seconds before closing. The train pulls off, for about one foot or 12 inches, before the doors spring open again, and then they close again, a second later. The train moves again, for about another foot, before stopping again, but this time, the doors do not spring open, and the train is only stopped for about a couple seconds. My thought was,

"Whatever the hell you guys are doing back there, you need to quit it!"