Bad bus experience

Let's start off with a pissing joke that happened today:
I was waiting for a bus to get to the gym in Mid Valley when I thought I was lucky coz the bus showed up pretty quickly plus a friend of mine had me occupied on the phone while I was waiting.

Sure it was no surprise if a newbie driver couldn't print my ticket, but what struck me was his decision to check the exterior of the bus instead of the ticket machine.

Guess the newbie driver experience came to a climax when the bus broke down before reaching the next stop. I, two aunties and one uncle decided to stay in the (still, luckily) air-conditioned bus for about another hour.

With no sight of any form of assistance, I thought maybe I could just take a darned cab. But poor me walked out from the house with change only enough to get a bus ticket. Pretty dehydrated by then, I asked this shopkeeper if I could purchase a bottle of drinking water with an RM50 note. He just freaking shook his head.

Fine, fine. Having already waited for one hour, perhaps it's only normal to expect the next bus will arrive soon. So I waited. And waited. And waited for another hour. It's hot, it's sticky (I know it's humid, but I'd prefer to stress it this way), and by that it's just completely pissing. Even if I had made it to the gym, I would just take a shower and go back. Well, some satisfaction at least.

Yes, only after two hours of waiting did I see the bus coming from the opposite direction of the route. Although the terminal isn't too far away, knowing these morons, it would take at least another 20 minutes.

Man, forget about it. Forget about buses, Ben, I told myself. All those efforts to save a few ringgits has such a big price to pay. TIME.

Frankly we all know KL is packed with an excessive number of cars. But I wouldn't have any idea what the government is doing to try to reduce these on the road besides a few nah-save-it ads on the TV.

With the car price-wage ratio so high (yeah that's my ratio) there are still so many of us wanting to buy cars. Why? Common sense: we simply have no good alternative/substitute. Now let's see why in the next post.