Time and money

Today the hole in the wall had run out of ten pound notes so could only dispense twenty pounds at a time, the bus doesn’t take twenty pound notes as I may have mentioned before. Luckily I already had the correct amount for the journey so I didn’t use the cash point on this occasion.

Where I work there is a bus station which is a big name for an open air coach park with eight bus shelters. The shelters are arranged in two rows either side of a road in a loop for the busses to go round. Four of these shelters (A,B,C and D) are in frequent use, I have never seen two used (E and F) G is used by the 75 which comes every 8 minuets (I sometimes sit in there when it is raining and my shelter is full) H is my shelter I don’t really sit in the shelter unless it is raining and windy as it is often full of people who want to speak to you. (see girl asking about 609) so I sit on the bench this has the two advantages, one is the solitude and escape for an in secant barrage of moronic questions (that’s just from George) and the other is the ambiguity of your purpose, you could be sitting waiting for a bus or you could be taking in the view of cripples trees and be littered bushes, so if you arrive for your bus just after it has left (as I have done on a less than seven occasions) you can sit there for say forty five minuets and leave looking less like you were waiting for a bus than you would if you were in a shelter. My bus stop is not busy the majority of the time in fact you can sit there for an hour watch everyone else except the people at H get on a bus. That is until 7.15 when four, yes four busses are scheduled to arrive at my stop. My bus, one to Weston super Mere another the Newport and the 615 which has a hand written sign that says buSstation on it. Now I’m not a bus planner I don’t pretend to know what that job entails but I am pretty damn sure that It should involve more than saying oh lets just whack it on H and going home. So my plea to all those considering or working in public transport planning, please make sure you have a basic grasp of time and space or at least realise that as one object cannot occupy two places at once equally two three or even four objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Remember that and your set.