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Nov. 26th, 2008
Today's Metro Haikus
Nov. 26th, 2008 05:21 pmOn the day before
a holiday, people like
to leave work early.
Why doesn't Metro
adjust the "off peak" schedule
to let them get home?
Every bloody holiday eve I end up waiting ages for an Orange line train I can squeeze onto. They should really have figured out that running trains 15 minutes apart at 3 p.m. on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving does not work.
And, a bonus, a hint for people exiting the Vienna station:
If it says SmartTrip
Only, please don't try to use
your paper ticket.
Trust me, you will not get the paper ticket into the sealed off slot in one of the SmartTrip only lanes. Which are clearly labeled, both overhead and directly on the top of the reader.
I can't, however, offer haiku help to the person the other day who couldn't figure out you use the reader to the right of the turnstile and could not understand why nothing was happening when he put his ticket in the reader to the left. Or to the people who can't understand that a stop sign means that lane is not open.
a holiday, people like
to leave work early.
Why doesn't Metro
adjust the "off peak" schedule
to let them get home?
Every bloody holiday eve I end up waiting ages for an Orange line train I can squeeze onto. They should really have figured out that running trains 15 minutes apart at 3 p.m. on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving does not work.
And, a bonus, a hint for people exiting the Vienna station:
If it says SmartTrip
Only, please don't try to use
your paper ticket.
Trust me, you will not get the paper ticket into the sealed off slot in one of the SmartTrip only lanes. Which are clearly labeled, both overhead and directly on the top of the reader.
I can't, however, offer haiku help to the person the other day who couldn't figure out you use the reader to the right of the turnstile and could not understand why nothing was happening when he put his ticket in the reader to the left. Or to the people who can't understand that a stop sign means that lane is not open.