You know, sometimes life just has to be boiled down. Like, Essentials. We can't be, as sentient beings endowed with reason, wandering around all the time with really nothing to do.
So, like that post-office clerk, you know the one, I've distilled it down -- and I'm saying all life, not just mine, can be boiled down to a very simple formula:
I have something you want, but you're not going to get it unless you go through me.
It's like the AMT. "We know you have to take this train. It's 6:45 am at the Vaudreuil station. WTF else are you going to do when the train is late? Swim to work?" Not quite what AMT announces, when they finally get around to it. If, they announce anything. So, AMT doesn't bother making announcements or apologizing for delays, since commuters are their captives. You tell your boss why you're late, day after day. Oh, really, it's too hot for the train to run. The switches melted. And in winter, they freeze. The doors melted open, the doors melted shut, the doors froze open, the doors froze shut. We should be grateful someone looks at the switches, they were ignored in London and dozens of commuters died. They died not even for a terrorist cause, just because they were working sods trying to get to work on time on time and earn a living.
ReplyDeleteHow long until this happens here?
Twits, tweets, wtf, I signed up to get news about delays. I didn't hear a thing this morning, didn't get a message. I can imagine a PR flacks responding to my complaint "Sorry, we didn't really mean we would send any messages with information, it was just a PR exercise to make you feel you were a valued customer. And we wanted to prove that we used social media" Thank you for contacting us and enjoy your ride with the AMT.
Hmpf!
Ruth, I thought you died a happy death and went to heaven coated with vanilla!
ReplyDeleteJust kidding.
You know, I don't know what you go through on a daily basis -- we're just not on that personal level -- but it sounds like a goddamn nightmare.
I swear, the motor vehicle may be the worst curse ever known to man, but it sure beats AMT Montreal: Dorion/Repentigny.
Ooops, sorry, I was ranting when I was supposed to comment.