Riding the bus in the dark makes us all happy

[Perd Hapley]

In conjunction with Angry Birds^TM, the United Nations International Day of Happiness presents some tips on how to be happy:

1. Walk Everywhere
2. Use Public Transportation [would seem to conflict with 1]
3. Save Water
4. Turn Off the Lights
5. Play Outside
6. Worry About Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_7GukY-dD8

[MechAg94]

In conjunction with Angry Birds^TM, the United Nations International Day of Happiness presents some tips on how to be happy:

1. Walk Everywhere
2. Use Public Transportation [would seem to conflict with 1]
3. Save Water
4. Turn Off the Lights
5. Play Outside
6. Worry About Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_7GukY-dD8

1.  Partial Check - I have been walking to try to get in better shape.  Everywhere?  No way in hell.  Bicycles would get a better reaction.
2.  Um...no.  
3.  Check.  I do save water bottles in my hurricane stash.
4.  Check.  I turn them off every night.
5.  Check.  I was at the range yesterday.  I plan to go again today.  I will try to remember to think about the planet while trying to make small groups with my new 22 mag rifle.
6.  Check.  I do worry about what the idiot politicians will do in the name of "climate change".  

So, 4 out of 6?

This is really just more evidence that the UN and its subordinate groups have far too much money.

[Perd Hapley]

This is really just more evidence that the UN and its subordinate groups have far too much money. should cease to exist.

Better.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I can say right now that public transportation would not make me happier. My interactions with other people when limited by being in a car are bad enough. Enraged with no barrier between me and other travelers? Not a good idea...

I can deal with turning off lights, though. I like being in the dark, with the only light being the glow of my computer screen while plotting evil.

[Perd Hapley]

In my state, public transportation is one of the few places where you can get slapped with a felony for carrying a gun (w/ or w/o a permit). So that would make me real unhappy.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/03/27/video-metrolink-beating-caught-on-tape/

[Angel Eyes]

In my state, public transportation is one of the few places where you can get slapped with a felony for carrying a gun (w/ or w/o a permit). So that would make me real unhappy.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/03/27/video-metrolink-beating-caught-on-tape/

Should have gone down this way:

https://youtu.be/of-57Ivfwz8?t=63

[brimic]

7. Thinking about how UN aholes can FOADIAF.

[K Frame]

I use pubic transportation pretty much every workday... DC metro train and bus, and also local county commuter bus.

I say pubic, because commuting to work that way is truly a daily kick in the balls.

I'm trying to get transferred to our Springfield location, where I can drive every day.

[KD5NRH]

Heck, I'd settle for something with a tow bar to get me up the big hills.  Biking to work may be getting rid of a few pounds, but I had a deep tissue massage this weekend to try to get past some of the knee and lower back pain.  I'd swear she did about a third of that massage with a hot curling iron.

OTOH, my average speed is up by 0.5mph, and I'm not as numb as usual this morning.

[MechAg94]

Heck, I'd settle for something with a tow bar to get me up the big hills.  Biking to work may be getting rid of a few pounds, but I had a deep tissue massage this weekend to try to get past some of the knee and lower back pain.  I'd swear she did about a third of that massage with a hot curling iron.

OTOH, my average speed is up by 0.5mph, and I'm not as numb as usual this morning.

We don't really need to hear about what you did at the "massage" parlor.   

[KD5NRH]

We don't really need to hear about what you did at the "massage" parlor.

You haven't experienced pain until some cute 5'3" redhead has dug into your already sore lower back in ways that truly feel like she's stabbing you with a red hot poker, going in at the waist and trying to probe up to the kidneys.  Repeatedly.  And following up by ironing out your spine on the cotton setting with extra steam.

But it felt amazing when she was done.  The next morning I felt like I'd lost a fight, but range of motion was way up, and joints that haven't worked right in years are suddenly way down at the bottom of the pain priority list.

[K Frame]

"I'm not as numb as usual this morning."

I'd say you're as numb as you've ever been.

 

[wmenorr67]

You haven't experienced pain until some cute 5'3" redhead has dug into your already sore lower back in ways that truly feel like she's stabbing you with a red hot poker, going in at the waist and trying to probe up to the kidneys.  Repeatedly.  And following up by ironing out your spine on the cotton setting with extra steam.

But it felt amazing when she was done.  The next morning I felt like I'd lost a fight, but range of motion was way up, and joints that haven't worked right in years are suddenly way down at the bottom of the pain priority list.

But was the ending happy?

[KD5NRH]

But was the ending happy?

Well, I did buy her dinner.

[K Frame]

I swear to Christ if my morning bus is 15 minutes late again with absolutely no notification from the transit service I'm going to go nookuluhr.

Two days in a row -- no traffic issues in the area, no severe weather -- that he's been over 10 minutes late on his route, and that throws my entire freaking commute off to the point where it's nearly an extra half hour getting to work.

[Scout26]

Anyone seen on public transportation after age 30 is a failure at life.   

[seeker_two]

Well, I did buy her dinner.

Did she buy you breakfast?..... 

[KD5NRH]

Did she buy you breakfast?.....

No comment.   

[RoadKingLarry]

Anyone seen on public transportation after age 30 is a failure at life.   

I think the last time I rode a city bus was about 1981, maybe early '82 in San Diego from the base to a movie theatre and probably ended up walking back because the bus quit running before the bar closed.

[K Frame]

Anyone seen on public transportation after age 30 is a failure at life.   

Come to Washington DC and try to enact that theory. It doesn't work.

[Scout26]

Come to Washington DC and try to enact that theory. It doesn't work.

The successful people there have drivers to take them where they need to go...

[HankB]

2. Use Public Transportation

I think MLB pitcher John Rocker pretty much nailed it on public transportation around 15 or 16 years ago . . . and of course, like so many people who spoke the truth, the intolerant doyens of political correctness demanded he be punished for it.

[MechAg94]

Come to Washington DC and try to enact that theory. It doesn't work.

Come to the more semi-rural area I live and try to ride public transportation.  Even the unsuccessful people don't ride public transportation.

Of course, my commute is 10 minutes.  If traffic is bad, it might be 15.  Most issues lately have been with getting out of the guard gate at the plant entrance. 

[K Frame]

The successful people there have drivers to take them where they need to go...

A few years ago on my metro ride into DC I sat behind a rather success US Senator...

We BOTH had drivers to take us where we wanted to go... the train driver.

[K Frame]

"Come to the more semi-rural area I live and try to ride public transportation.  Even the unsuccessful people don't ride public transportation."

 

There's a difference between it being available and not using it because you think you're too good for it, and not using it because it's not available.

I grew up in small town Central Pennsylvania, a hot bed of nothing when it came to public transportation.