Daily Happiness

[torachan]

1. Busy day yesterday, but I had fun at Alexander's. Really glad I had today to recover from Saturday, though.

2. Speaking of Saturday, I had my first encounter with a bus with a full bike rack. If this were during the day and the bus was full, I would never try to take my bike inside, but since it was almost midnight, the bus (an extra long bus, no less) was nowhere near full, and the next bus wasn't due for twenty minutes (if the schedule could be trusted), I asked if I could take it on, but the driver said no. D:

As I was debating whether to wait for another bus or just try riding all the way home, a non-express showed up and I asked if it went all the way to Santa Monica or stopped in Westwood (which a lot of the non-express ones do) and the driver said all the way to Santa Monica, so I took that. At that point I would have taken one to Westwood, too, since then it's only about a five mile ride home, but I was glad I didn't have to wait around any longer or ride a long way, since I was super tired by that point and just wanted to get home. And thankfully since it was the middle of the night, the fact that it wasn't an express didn't make much of a difference.

Daily Happysong:

Nirvana - Lithium

Comments

[zillah975]

Booo to that first bus driver!! I wonder why he said no? There should be a rule, man. I'm glad the second one let you bring the bike!

[torachan]

Well, the second one the bike rack was empty, so there was no reason for him not to.

[mllesatine]

I don't know what a bus with a bike rack looks like but it seems very harsh to not pick someone up when it's midnight.

[torachan]

All the buses here have fold-down bike racks in the front that can hold two bikes (and can be folded up when empty).

[bridgetmkennitt]

I'm glad you had fun.

I've seen bike racks on buses before, but I don't know how one hooks it up so it stays on a bike rack.

It was fortunate there was a second bus that had an open bike rack and was heading to Santa Monica, but it kind of sucks that it was midnight, the bus wasn't full, and the bus driver refused to let you take the bike on with you. Midnight!

[torachan]

Yeah, it's not like the bus was going to fill up at that time of night, especially since it was one of those double long buses that are essentially two buses connected by an accordian thing in the middle so they can turn corners better, so plenty of room.

The bike racks here are really easy to use. They have slots for the bike tires and you just set them in and then pull a hook over the top of the front tire. It's very quick yet keeps them in place well. And since LA isn't a super biking city usually two slots per bus is plenty (and probably any more than that would make it stick out too much), but it sucks those few times when they're full. >_<