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Regardless of your preference toward your current situation, we can all agree on one thing. If you take public transportation, you’re going to have a bad time.

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The morning is a time reserved for quiet reflection on how you wish you were in bed and the 8 hours of hell you’re about to endure.

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I find it pathetic that you can’t survive an hour without having to go outside and light up a cigarette.

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In the last three years, I have lived in San Francisco and Sydney and relied completely on the public transit systems of each city— specifically the buses.

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15. Don’t drink coffee with a meal or they will think that you have been raised in a barn.

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Forget the smelly Greyhounds of yore. Ignore the stories about megabus drivers who try to kick you off mid-trip. Bus travel is back.

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Claire laughed both at the idea of someone earnestly identifying as a witch, and then at the suggested relationship between “kitten stickers” and “witches.”

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The Chinatown bus didn’t try to convince anyone into believing that riding the Chinatown bus was anything more than a miserable experience.

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More than other television shows, it yields to watching and rewatching, because it is a show about repetition and circularity. Though you own all three seasons of the show on DVD, you now open your internet browser and stream an episode over Netflix Instant, because this seems easier, somehow.

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When the bus begins to move, search for your bus fare in your jeans pocket. Chew your gum with your mouth open. Remark to the driver about how hard the rain is coming down. Now fish for your bus fare in your jacket pocket. Realize your bus fare is in your wallet at the bottom of your backpack.