[URBAN NOTE] Shuttlebus love
Jun. 6th, 2007 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI was greeted on the platform at Dufferin station Monday morning by the sight of dozens of people, listening to someone's announcement made over a dying loudspeaker that there had been a "power outage" at Spadina that shut down service on the Bloor-Danforth line. Twenty minutes passed; a subway train appeared; and, just as everyone was getting settled in their seats, we heard someone else announce over a much nicer loudspeaker system that we'd have to disembark at Ossington and choose our shuttlebuses. Me, I opted for the bus that ran east to Wellesley station. That one, at least, arrived on time.
The bus was crowded with ill-tempered people, and I tried to hide from them on my seat. To my right, two people were standing, each somewhat overweight, both tired-looking, one a man and the other a woman. I heard the murmurs of their conversation, but it wasn't until I saw him hook his thumb and ring finger on her hand that I realized they weren't strangers. They stayed like that until the bus pulled into Wellesley.
The bus was crowded with ill-tempered people, and I tried to hide from them on my seat. To my right, two people were standing, each somewhat overweight, both tired-looking, one a man and the other a woman. I heard the murmurs of their conversation, but it wasn't until I saw him hook his thumb and ring finger on her hand that I realized they weren't strangers. They stayed like that until the bus pulled into Wellesley.
