But you need the car and-
Take the bus.
It's no big deal for me-
TAKE. THE. BUS.
No.
Ok. You'll see. Don't text me and cry like a baby when you realize I was right.
It will be fine, you need to relax.
Right.
My husband scored tickets to yesterday's Blue Jays game. He decided he would take an early train from Oshawa after driving to the station and tailgate at his friend's house and then head to the game.
He left the house at 9:58 am. I know this because we have one of those "smart" garage door systems that send an alert to our smart phones when the door opens and closes. This is what happened next:
Notice how long it took him to finally get on a train. And he cruised FOUR GO Stations looking for parking! It's a 22 minute bus ride in good traffic from the bus stop north of our home in Courtice to the GO station in Oshawa. It's only a 10 minute walk to the bus stop. My husband walks much faster than I do, so, in under a half hour, he would have made it from the front door to the platform.
The consequence of his stubbornness made itself known when I arrived in Pickering at 4:58 pm to find and pick up the car. His directions were helpful but being unfamiliar with the parking garage, I roamed the bi-level C lot hitting the panic button 20 times to figure out where the car was. That took eight minutes. It took another 12 minutes to get out of the parking garage because of the line-up. It took another 20 minutes to crawl east on Bayly to Brock to get on Highway 401, and another 35 minutes to crawl through the express-lanes-are-ending-and-Whitby-construction-is-starting mess, and another 12 minutes to make it to Courtice to pick up my daughter from her babysitter. Over an hour I spent to get home. Ridiculous.
TAKE. THE. BUS.
He should've taken the bus
ReplyDeleteThe sad part is the train was almost certainly not even 50% full. The dumb sheeple who get to the top of the stairs to a platform and decide they must enter the train door directly there and will not move despite pleas from the CSA to use all doors are the problem. I've been on hundreds of post-game trips where people are left on the middle of the platform and gawk at the windows as my west end coach passes by with it's load of under 10.
ReplyDeleteHE TOTALLY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE BUS!
ReplyDeleteYup - definitely the bus would have been a better option. If I can't arrive at the Oshawa GO station (or any GO station in our vicinity) by 7 am at the latest, I'm either driving or not going - this from too much experience of having my blood pressure spike while trying to find a parking spot as the departure time for the train I NEED to be on edges ever closer....).
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised Hubby wasn't more inclined to listen to your wisdom, given your status as the Empress of all things GO! :-P
This man is hellbent sometimes on proving me wrong. Because surely, I exaggerate. ROLL EYES.
ReplyDeleteBahahaha ... So TOTALLY like my missus. So many parallels, Cindy. {still chuckling}
ReplyDeleteI also should mention that this whole stubborn exercise cost $27 in fuel.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how the bus is quicker (apart from saving the walk from the parking lot). Doesn't it take the same route as his car?
ReplyDeleteThe bus was quicker because he wouldn't have had to drive to four different stations looking for parking. Oshawa is full by 9 am. Whitby was also packed. Ajax was also full.
ReplyDeleteIf he had just taken the bus, he could have saved himself 1 hour and 20 minutes of driving and looking for parking.
On a normal, non concert plus Blue Jays game day, he would have been fine to go to Whitby and find a spot there. Oshawa has lost 180-230 spots to construction. It's a write off.
That's so cute - thinking he could outsmart you. Dear CJ's hubby: Take. The. Bus. And when all else fails, listen to your wife. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm with Bicky. On both counts.
ReplyDeleteHe should've just parked on the yellow lines. Or in a disabled spot. Everybody's doing it ;)
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