2004-05-05-0332Z


Tomorrow's my mother's 75th birthday. As usual, I haven't sent anything yet. If anything, I send a single birthday/mothers's day present, and even that's usually late. What a lousy son I am.

I walked back from La Brea to the El Paso line this afternoon, but missed my bus by 15 minutes. So I walked around to the Greyhound station and found out their price is the same. Wonder of all wonders. I bought my ticket, and looked around for a restaurant to pass the time. However, my brain wasn't functioning too well and by the time I ordered my tacos and coffee it finally dawned on me that my bus was leaving in 15 minutes and I wouldn't make it. So I resigned myself to paying another full fare and just enjoyed my meal as best I could.

When I got back to the station, the girl at the counter told me there was a $10 reticketing fee. Great! Then she asked the girl next to her, who had sold me the original ticket, and she said I could just reuse it. No reticketing fee! So I catch the 12:55 into Deming as long as I don't space out again. So, bottom line: I'm starting to like Greyhound again. Their prices are on a par with the local bus lines, they have more buses to more destinations, and as far as I'm concerned they're more than fair when you miss your bus.

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