So yeah…. the transit strike happened after-all. Awesome. I’ve been up since 5, watching the news and doing laundry. I was so busy trying to wrap presents last night that I totally forgot that I was out of clean socks, plus my thermals needed a wash as well; since I have no idea how I am going to work (I’ve tried hooking up with folks for a carpool via Craigslist all late last night and early this morning but with no real results), no do I know what I am after work (I might go to MK’s in Jersey, but I still have so much stuff to do at home… hence why I wanted to get all my X-mas wrapping done and over with, plus the need for clean clothes, to take with me as I hit the road).
As for my attitude towards the strike as well as the transit workers and their demands, I think I made myself pretty clear last week, and nothing has really changed (well I guess it’s gotten worse since I’ve discovered that garbage people on staff really do make about $50,000, as well as what constitutes a day’s work for them). But I guess the frustration and disgust that I myself, as well as many others, feel was pretty much summed up perfectly by a woman in the Bronx who was being interviewed on WNBC as she was waiting for a Metro North train (on her way to help deaf children, which is what she does for a living), who was near tears as she lamented how its killing her to pay for $76 for a monthly Metrocard as is, but how this morning alone, a cab was costing her $15, the Metro North was another $7, plus she knew that she would have to pay another $20 for a cab once finally in the city, and summed up her predicament by saying “How am I suppose to do this? I’m poor!”
Anyway…. my stuff is finally dried, so time to go.