Taking the bus can be annoying. For starters, they're unpredictable. The schedule if the driver's, not your own. Especially in winter's cooling temperatures, the last place most of us want to find ourselves is standing outside waiting for public transportation to show up.
Also, they can be crowded. During heavy commuting times, you very well might find yourself with a purse jabbing your back, an elbow nearly missing your face, and three other booted feet smashing your own. And again, this is the cold season, when close chambers like the ones found on most buses become breeding grounds for sniffles and sneezes.
Oh, and another thing -- the buses are sometimes coated in ass-crazy dogma, the likes of which denies God's love for gays and warns of America's impending destruction. Or at least that's what D.C. commuters might soon be facing if
Westboro Baptist gets their way:
WBC to launch a responsive as campaign on the side of D.C. buses dierctly responding to athiest as campaign in Washington area - to begin December 1st. Please see the attached letter to CBS Outdoor, regarding buses available for ads for the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority. To view draft mock-ups of the proposed ads, please use the link, ...
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I will not give the link; you can see it from accessing the link below. Here are some of the "proposed ads":
http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2008/11/the-wheels-on-t.html