[nagdu] Dirty Busses

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Hey Elizabeth,
Ahhhh, the ahem - joys of bus riding! LOL!!  I have to say this was quite 
the experience of riding Boston transit where they don't care if you eat and 
drink on the bus.  Here in San Diego, our transit company does not allow 
eating and drinking on the buses or trolleys.  People are pretty good at 
following this rule as it has been in effect for many, many years.  But, you 
do get the few who think the rules are for someone else and not them.

When I ride the bus and sit in the aisle facing seats, I scoot Landon's butt 
under the seat with his head between my feet.  that way, he can't snarf 
anything under the seat.

What is a "pencil skirt"?  Is it a miniskirt the girls wore in the 1960s? 
Most women I know who like skirts don't wear that kind - they wear a longer, 
loose type of skirt or the just wear pants when they have to ride public 
transit.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Rene" <emrene at earthlink.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 12:22 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Dirty Busses


> Has anyone encountered this situation?:
>
> You board the bus and sit on the isle-facing, pull-down bench designated 
> for passengers with wheelchairs, guide dogs, strollers, etc.  Your guide 
> dog kennels under the bench per your direction, keeping his paws and tail 
> out of the path of passengers' feet.
>
> Then you hear him chomping away at some trashy goody tossed there by the 
> last passenger.  Or he dives under the seat, rump to the world, with his 
> nose wildly sniffing unknown substances under the bench, with his collar 
> and leash at an angle   no leash correction can counteract without drama. 
> Or your nicely groomed dog emerges from the bus with something gross stuck 
> to his haunch.  Or someone at work asks you if your dog has cut himself, 
> and you discover a wad of stickiness the shape of a slash along his leg 
> that cleans off with no underlying wound.  Or your dog's jaws are working 
> eagerly when you check on him under that bus bench and you correct him, 
> reach in, and pull out something ghastly.  Or you rise from that bus bench 
> to disembark only to realize that the back thigh of one   of your pant 
> legs where you've sat has become, er, moist!
>
> All of this has happened to Alvin and me during the past few months, on a 
> busline that originates in my very nice neighborhood, then goes across 
> town and back.
>
> Never before in Seattle or in other cities have I encountered such dirty 
> busses.  Never have I had to worry about my dog getting into trouble, or 
> my being grossed out, because passengers threw their garbage under the 
> seats or the busses weren't cleaned .
>
> I keep Alvin under the bus seat because Seattle's  electrified busses 
> lurch all the time, go up and down steep hills, and are hazardous for a 
> sitting guide not clamped firmly between his handler's knees (hard to do 
> in a pencil skirt!).  Alvin's too big to squeeze into the space between 
> the front-facing seats, or I'd have him sit there with me, next to the 
> window.
>
> I shudder to think about having to sweep the bus seat with my hand before 
> sitting to make sure it's dry!
>
> I'm about to write to Metro Transit about this situation, but don't expect 
> much more than sympathy, owing to budget cuts county-wide that have 
> probably caused Metro to cut corners on cleaning.
>
> Anyone have the same beef?
>
> Taxi, please,
>
> Elizabeth
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