Ss is currently at Bm's house for a two week "vacation" period. They don't do anything but watch tv but still it is "vacation". Well, a little over a month ago we found out that the library was having a Harry Potter sleepover on July 20th. Ss really wanted to go but we knew he would be at Bm's. So we called and cleared it with her. We signed him up and paid the fee.
I am so relieved now. They cleared the warrant last night and he got the okay to come home today. We called the local PD and they ran a warrant check for us and said there was no active warrant for him. They said it didn't even show a cancelled one, so that meant that the courts must have realized their eror and removed it from the system. Well, it only cost us $3500! Guess it's a good thing DH doesn't have alot of expensive hobbies, cuz he would be giving them up to support his legal habit
Okay, sorry about that. I did something wrong with the picture and submitted too soon. Please be patient with me, I am new to this blogging. You all seem like experts!
Anyway, my step children are nice to my face, but I have found some things that tend to indicate that they don't like me.
Hello, this is my first time on this (or any) blog. I have been reading your entries and realized that there are other people with similar issues as I have. I will have to learn the codes - what is DH: Dear Husband?
Hey, there, guys and gals! THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY! Too bad I don't have anything liquid to celebrate it with. Sigh. I wish I lived next to Fearless. I know she'd hook me up.
Anyway, I did something yesterday that I haven't done or even thought of doing in a really long time. I hugged my husband. Yep, sure did. It was nice. He hasn't been an asshole in a long time and, even though nothing's resolved, it just seemed like a good idea. So I hugged him. He hugged me back. Sometimes it's better when you don't say anything at all.
Just thought I'd send a quick note to let those of you who knew and were keeping track ... that I passed my real estate exam this morning!!!
~ Katrina
I've been wondering about those yellow lights at the end of each train car on the side. At first I thought they were to tell the T/O which car's doors were open. But after seeing the "Door Open" indicator on the control console turn off and the lights still on, I guess that wasn't it. Once all the lights have turned off and the "Brake On" Indicator turns off, the train starts moving. Could those lights be telling which car's brakes are still on? If I'm wrong, then what is their function?
I'm sure most of you all have been through this one, but it's a new one to me. Having read a lot of trials and tribulations about the joint birthday party ordeal, I pretty much know what we're in for. I'm not going, of course, due to the restraining order. I know that BF isn't just "caving" because he feels guilty - he's perfectly capable of not going as he has illustrated the entire time we've been together and even before that. So I'm not jealous or insecure (and far from disappointed) that he's made the decision to go. I'm just trying to gear up to be loving and supportive when he comes home and recounts the disaster that took place.
I have been married 3 years to my husband. He has 2 daughters 11 and 7 that stay with us every single Saturday into Sunday. It's hard to never ever have any weekend time with him. The most I get is Sunday afternoon.
I think I've needed a forum like this for a while. I'm completely overwhelmed with being a sm. It's been 2 years and I keep waiting for it to get easier and it's not. My kids aren't faultless but I'm exhausted from constantly fighting with, negotiating with and hearing sass back from 2 kids who are not mine. One sk is manipulative, dishonest and rude to everyone she encounters. The other is argumentative, disrespectful and jelous that I'm in the picture at all. BD wants to make them happy for the 2 weeks a month they are with us but I'm bone tired from dealing with it all.
Well that earthquake this morning surely woke me up. Wonder if commute is affected on BART?
My hubby got up this morning and of course SS has to be woke up by his "daddy" at 22 to go to work. well of course a night of drinking and he did not want to get up. SO my hubby comes up stairs and I am like whats wrong. he said thats it I have had it with him, he has that CD and I told him we are going and getting the money and looking for his apartment. i am sick of his shit. He can't even take a shower or brush his teeth. I did not say a word, I gave him a hug and said I am sorry.
My husband announced to me today that he may not have a job to go back to. Oh Joy oh Rapture. I love this man but he has been so unstable job wise that I literally feel overwhelmed and feel like my back is breaking from the bills and responsibilities. Every year since we have been married he loses his job about his time of year for one reason or another and I have to take on all of the bills, purchasing school supplies, and paying for Christmas. I actually told him today enough was enough. If he can't take care of the children then they need to go live with thier mother. I cannot afford to take care of EVERYBODY and I dont' have the money to fork out for school supplies and Christmas this year. BM won't do for the children and BF can't and quite frankly these parents need to step up to the plate. I know this isn't my DH's fault but I cant' take much more. This marriage is so one sided and my health is going south. I don't sleep but 4 hours a night. I have gained at least 20 lbs and I am so tired and overwhelmed. I HATE my job. I dont' get treated well there. I work my butt off and don't have a stinking thing to show for it because I am paying for everyone else. I can't leave and have no where to go. I thought about selling the house but the job market is so bad and the house is in need of repairs for me to sell it. What am I supposed to do? Throw out a husband and 3 kids?
I wish I had found this website long ago. I think I am late in the process for reaching out for support. Just didn't occur to me to even look online before; maybe cuz I will be 50 on my next bd, so the blog thing is weird to me. I explain it as "like instant message, but much slower." But I know, and this site has confirmed, that I am in a no-win situation. My H--does DH mean DEAR HUSBAND??--I won't ever refer to him that way, he is a complete loser, and I feel so very stupid for marrying him. I knew better. My ex's leaving me shook me to my bones, and I doubt I will recover from that. I can't say for sure that I don't love him still. We were married for 21 years before he left, and I hurt, hurt, hurt so much. Didn't help that new Mrs Ex was older than me and really much wider than me; that hurt even more. Not to mention her hideous nose. (OOPS, was I verbal??)
Okay ? Tuesday night BM called and left a message for DH, ?I need to talk to you about SS? dentist appointment tomorrow.? I laughed. Told DH after all this she needs you to take SS to the DDS. Sure enough ? she had a work conflict and said, ?I can either have BF take him or you can.? Of course DH said he?d take SS to the DDS.
We all went camping together this weekend and it had to be the WORST vacation I have ever been on. My two kids and bf and his son came with. BF son has serious seperation anxiety issues for some reason. I don't know what has happened to him but he is attached to his dads side ALL the time. His son is four years old, and he acts like he's two. He cries all the time, eats like noone has taught him proper table manners, and sits with his knees up at the table.
I have been married to a man with 5 children for almost 18 years. I have been nice, courteous, generous, outgoing, and generally a pleasant non-demanding person with these kids. I do not in any way attempt to interfere with their relationship with their father. I am sure I made some mistakes. But, there has never been a major disagreement, etc. For most of these years we hosted holiday dinners and many family celebrations at our home. We loaned money, financed businesses, helped grandchildren with school tuition, etc. I even gave the boys some lovely diamonds of mine for engagement and wedding rings for their wives.
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Don't ever even think about taking another picture of me while I'm enjoying my KFC or Panda Xpress on the train! I'll kick your ass, just like I did to this wimpy accountant looking guy today who thought he was being funny. I took his cell phone and showed it up his ass in front of everyone while he was screaming in pain. Then I made him apologize to me in front of the other riders who were all on my side anyway, and laughed at the little dickless four eyed wimp crawling down the aisle on all fours while I pulled him toward the door by his boxers.
I EAT WHAT I WHAT, WHEN I WANT, AND WHERE I WANT! I;ve even told BART police and train drivers to shove it when they interupted my meal. Other riders are too chicken shit to challenge me. There isn't one of you that dare mess with me. We have a right to eat and feed ourselves. I'ts called fucking survival. If I'm hungry I eat. Period. If I'm thirsty, I drink. Period. If I want to smoke. I smoke. Period.
You got a problem with that? I didn't think so. And next time you have that itch to be a hero with your cell camera so you can post my mug here, think twice. Take a little advice from someone who grew up on the bad streets of the Bronx. The next time anyone tries to pull that kind of shit on me or my girlfriend while we are trying to dine in peace on the train, you ll need a proctologist to remove your cell phone from your rectum.
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This morning around 10am, there was a huge pile of poo in front of the MacArthur BART exit, in visual and olfactory range of the station agent booth.
This means someone took a dump there before first BART and it hadn't been cleaned up for five hours, or the agent looked the other way as someone took a dump right in front of the station. Either way, someone (maybe the shitter?) managed to step in it and create a shit trail to the fare gates.
Ok I have a five year old girl. So that is the extent of my own parenting. I have 4 other brothers - no girls in my family except for mom. I know a lot of us who know or are themselves parents to teenagers. Some might even be posters to this board. Don't let your kids swing from the handrails please. See attachment.
Damn I feel bad for the janitor. He sure has a thankless
job. I've used the bathroom at San Bruno once and can agree
that the men who use it don't have consideration for others.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/16/MNG9TR15PL1.DTL
And so packed going to Dublin? Is it because people that live on the penisnula are afraid to take the train? I've heard they are bad stations like Daly City and South SF/San Bruno where people get robbed or assualted because those cities are dangerous and violent?
Has anyone seen Ms. Lori's friend lately?
Haven't seen him around in a while.
Average salary per employee is $77,900 + benefits that no private employer comes close to offering?! Wow, you have to be fucking joking? BART and it's employees (especially train operators and agents) are a total joke. Most are ex-cons. If salary were based on actual work performed and educational background, they would only make $10,000 a year. Most BART employees are uneducated, inexperienced idiots who only got their jobs because they have the time to sit for days in front of the BART employment office in Oakland until the opening comes up.
BART employees are fucking jokes, none of the train operators, station agents, etc. have any serious experience or education. Most are high school dropouts and average five years in prison or jail. Most were only hired because of Affirmative Action program instead of based on real qualifications.
THey were all hired based on luck, how fast they could get to the front of the hiring line, the pull they received from the inmate release job programs, the pressure from the NAACP, and people like Jessy Jackson.
Train operators and station agents are the entitlement queens of the workforce. I hope they all lose family members and loved ones due to the most painful forms of cancer. I hope they make just one mistake to fuck up their parole and end up back in the slammer, where they are paid their actual value, 15 cents an hour.
Before you say it, I'll answer your question. "Bitter/Angry Much?" Hell yes, aren't you angry that some ex-con uneducated beer guzzling rude lazy unreliable fuck basically runs your life?
Suggestion to BART, please crash the train that JBAPB rides on.
How did he get this job? Do he have relatives at BART? I don't even think he's a college grad, he's very young (30?), and didn't have no real work experience. He look like he just walked into this job.
Is it because he is (fill in blank blank blank)?
Shouldn't he, as the most publicly visible BART employee, be riding BART? Why is he driving to work? Believe he lives in Oakland, Piedmont, and drives a Lexus and parks in the Oakland City Center parking lot.
so i was cleaning out my side yard today in preparation for laying a cement walkway over what is currently just a bunch of gravel. the previous owners had placed what looked like sheet metal underneath the garbage cans so they are easier to roll over the gravel. i lift up these pieces of "sheet metal" only to discover that they are six old bart signs! four station maps and two "in case of emergency" signs - the kind that are above the handicap seats. i can tell the maps are pretty old as they only include the original stations. i think the "emergency" signs were installed as a result of the tube fire in 1979, so they might be 28 years old. Not sure about the three white maps, but they can't be any newer than early 90's when they added some stations. the oldest looks to be the brown map (third attachment), which is actually particle board instead of sheet metal. this could possibly be from an original train back in the early 70's - it would have been a nice compliment to the brown seats. it was sandwiched between two layers of sheet metal, so it held up pretty well even though it is particle board sitting underneath my garbage cans for who knows how long - i've been here four and a half years, so at least that long.
i want to keep them but at the same time, i have no idea what to do with them. i wonder if there is a thriving market for old transit signs on ebay? hmmm...
Today was supposed to be the first day of absolute hell and delays for BART Dublin Pleasanton riders. Instead, it was very tolerable, almost unnoticeable. The morning trains left a couple of minutes early. The afternoon trains coming home took the same 45 minutes from D/T SF as always. The only difference was that my usual 5:23pm train from Montgomery didn't arrive until 5:28pm. It arrived at Dublin at 6:12pm, 44 minutes later with no stoppage.
I'm going to razz everyone at work tomorrow that razzed me that my commute home was going to be seven minutes longer. I think they must have thought the delay meant that the train would literally come to a screetching stop between Castro Valley and Dublin leaving riders swealtering without A/C or power. Everyone at work laughed saying my ride home would be the ride from hell. Sorry to disappoint them. One guy at work who brags because he has only a 20 minute BART ride to Glenn Park (whereever the hell Glenn Park is) even said he was looking forward to watching the news to see how bad my commute was.
I only know his first name but I can't say it for fear of retribution or lawsuit. I can only describe him because I ride his bus everyday. He's a large older (probably mid-late 50's) black man, fat, salt and pepa hair, always scowls and rude even to everyday riders. I just flash my pass and run past him even though all he does is scowl at me. The other day some kids were fooling around in the back of the bus and he yelled profanity at them. THen when the kids would not stop fooling around, he suddenly slammed the brakes sending everyone flying forward. Then he grunted and stomped to the back of the bus and told the kids to get off the bus. They did. But he didn't say sorry or anything to any of the other passengers, some which were injured. One lady hit here head on the seat handle and I'm pretty sure she was bleeding. Another guy was face flat on the floor but not hurt too bad.
It doesn't surprise me that he pissed at BART. As I mentioned, he's a really big dude (well over 300 lbs) and carries a large beverage bottle with him.
First of all let me say thank you so much to all of you who have supported me and helped me to realize that I did right.
To answer a few questions some of you ladies asked:
DH has wanted me to put him in a bootcamp for a couple of weeks now so when I called him about this to tell him, he stands behind me 100%. See, two, maybe three weeks ago, I had to take a trip out of state to get SS9 from my mother, who was keeping them for two weeks like she has every summer that I have had them, because he was threatning to hurt my 3 year old brother. (Long Story)
What's up with the people inside the dumpsters at the Pleasant Hill station recently? Yesterday it was a bum taking stuff out and today someone was unloading trash from the back of his POS pickup...
I went to my private therapy session (yuck) and then to the mailbox. I was not in the mood for a therapy session today especially since DH and I are doing quite well. It has turned into more about SD lately. SD has been a nightmare since coming home from visiting GP's house. The fits are the worst ever and I don't know how many times I have to be told I am hated. But the other night she threatened to tell the family therapist that I beat her up. She also said she wanted to die. There hasn't been a day that she has been nice since being home. I am back to square one all over again. The wonderful that she and I had before is now gone. She also told DH that when she went back to see her GP's that she was going to tell GM that he hits her. This makes me wonder if the allegations she has made against the grandparents and aunt are genuine. So, after an hour of venting, I stopped for the mail. There is a bill from the nutcase GAL. He is claiming that in that one week of dealing with the GP visit, we incurred $606.47 of debt with him. Spoke to him on the phone for a total of three minutes and met with him for one hour. Crackpot lawyer. So, now he wants $500 more this month since we blew through the first payment. He is billing $125 hour to speak to our attorney, but only $75 hour to speak with their attorney. How is this fair? I am so sick of the entire situation.
Gosh, people were acting even more out of pocket than usual.
Girl spits on agent. Guy tries to shit on tracks. Bum fights.
Is it the way the stars are lined up?
Did anyone else have something weird(er than usual) happen to them on BART today?
"Bonding with a Kid Who's Bound to Break Your Heart"
I think that title pretty much says it all. This was and still is a big issue with me, and I've been telling David since day one that I'm afraid of getting too close to Dante because he's just going to be another boy who I would fall in love with and who would break my heart. Of course that didn't stop me from falling head over heels for him, because he's just such a lovable kid. And the fact that I love him hasn't stopped him from throwing me under the bus on numerous occasions, just recently with my mother in law too, TWICE. Once when David and I decided to spend a day to ourselves for our anniversary, Dante claimed that I was mean to him to my mother in law, and just the other day when he didn't want to practice the piano and wanted instead to play on his playstation, he proclaimed loudly that he's quitting the piano therefore he doesn't have to practice because I said it was ok, which is not what I said, and he misconstrued what we talked about to suit his needs. Thankfully David was there when I had this conversation with him so he quickly corrected the situation when my mother in law called him in a frenzy of "What is Lissette telling this poor child!?"
This chapter is appropriately titled, "Embrace Your Identity Crisis" There is so much in this chapter that I can identify with. This chapter starts off with talking about the transition from being single to wam-o! instant family! As much as I was ridiculed by my ex and the bio-mom for this being *exactly* what I wanted, and it so wasn't. What girl does?! Yes, I wanted a family, and I still do, but I want a family of my own, not someone elses with all the problems that it brings. In the normal flow of things it's girl meets boy, girl falls in love with boy, girl and boy get married, girl and boy have baby. In my situation its: girl meets boy, girl falls in love with boy, girl meets boys child, girl raises other womans child with no appreciation of what she does for the boy, girl had to deal with angry ex-wife and jealous mnother in law.
I just got my copy of "A Single Girl's Guide to Marrying a Man, His Kids, and His Ex-Wife" and so far I have to say it's an awesome book. I'll be reviewing it and commenting on things I read as I go.
I watched this guy, AC Transit driver #32919, at the Hayward station take a leak over behind the bike lockers.
He walked right over to the lockers, whipped out his junk, and pissed.
WTF!!!!
When and where, you ask?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 5:20pm at the Hayward BART station. The guy didn't even venture down into the station to use the lavatory.
He didn't even think of it.
AC Transit driver #32919 is a nasty guy that urinates behind the bike lockers at the Hayward BART station.
Normally BART PD is parked 100' from where he pissed.
But, not yesterday. Would it have made a difference?
The little snack bar guy is only 65' away, that didn't matter.
What's the best way to let AC TRansit driver #32919 know that his behavior on 7-11-07 was un-acceptable?
Any suggestions?
jbap21
Some of the train drivers talk on the phone when working. Why can't management stop this? I ride the Fremont to SF train with the same driver who is talking on the phone constantly. He is a black guy who wears the wool cap in the summer. You can hear his conversation when his door is closed and the train is moving. I have moved to the back of the first car, my friend told me it's safer in the first car, but I don't care to hear about his baby mommas on the phone when I am trying to read my paper. I hope management does something.
So I was going through our court paperwork recently and realized that BM lied hardcore on her bank account information. She put that she had $500 in a checking and that was all. This woman has 4-5 figure bank accounts here and there. So, my questions are:
Who I have not seen in 26 years. I went to my Aunts funeral on his side. And I want to meet my dad and then I don't. I mean for any of you have read my past blogs you would know he was terribly mean to my mom and did some hanious things to his SD (my sisters).
What's up with the wierd blue stripe painted the length of the wall downstairs
at 19th street station in Oakland?? Looks like it was done by a blind tagger with Parkinson's...
I have read a couple posts on here about custodial parents and their control issues...our BM is obsessed with control. DH and BM had never had a court order previous to DH and I getting married. Few weeks before the wedding, we get the paperwork. Needless to say, coming up with $500/month additional for c/s was a HUGE financial hurt for us.
Good morning and yes, back so soon. Being new at dating DBF is not fun at all and on top of it all having a long distance relationship.
After having a great romantic last weekend, my BF goes back home and on Tuesday gets his 3 kids (9, 13, and 15) after being at BM for two weeks (longest they have been there since the divorce).
Why does the DH always seem to let BM's get away with everything? How could he have been with HER and let her run all over him and not act that way with me? Why is it so different?
Okay ... so the other post was what I put on my MySpace Blog for BB's BF to read. It's all true, just a little spin on it.
Anyway, the Montessori thing is really going to bite BB in the butt. Not only will she have to deal with making SS' lunch every day, and the no nap thing ... but current pre-school (PS) doesn't allow parents to volunteer (registered as a daycare, not pre-school). Montessori on the other hand LOVES it when parents volunteer ... well, before when Montessori was on the table I was very excited about being able to volunteer ... so I'm looking forward to that, and I will get more time with SS as a result ... DH will to as he will also volunteer and be involved.
Well, mixed blessings result from the hearing, and I can thank my DH for pointing out what I had missed. We didn?t get what we wanted, but we didn?t lose anything either. The judge didn?t even let BB say one word.
Hi everyone, I know I have not been on here in a while and I'm sorry, the summer has been so very busy with trip after trip.
Anyway, Monday morning I woke up to my 11month old, we'll call him "D" for short, all happy and ready to face the world so I get him out of his crib, which is in another room, by the way, and cuddle him while I make him his Decaf Coffee(don't ask ) and then I say him down with his sippy and went to brush my teeth and such, which has been a morning ritual since I stopped breastfeeding.
Or have does anyone else have days when you think that enough is enough and that maybe all parties involved would be better off if things were just over? I have had enough of the "private" meeting that the ex wife keeps demanding and that my DH ( stands for d*&^ head ) keeps saying yes too....
Okay, so first off... my BD5 has pneumonia, so I have not been on here in a week. She is feeling better and her dad has her at her follow up appointment as I type this. She is doing much better than last week.
Anyone know what happened to cause 20-25 minute delays on the Bay Point/Richmond lines and 40 (!) minute delays on the Dublin/Pleasanton line yesterday afternoon?
Is there a forum on the Internet to discuss MUNI like this? Because even on its worst day, BART still kicks MUNI's ass (if you don't count fares).
I'm (more than) a little bit pissed now about those turnstiles at the Civic Center station. A ticket that lets me in at my home station should NOT read as demagnetized on the other end. I'm not arguing the free ride, but this is like the third time in two weeks I've had my tickets go bad on me. I'm just going to put the latest one on my desk for a few weeks, because I don't want the lady at the exchange desk giving me a look and asking if I wasn't JUST THERE on Friday. She'll think I'm running a scam or something (which, trust me, I am not).
Do I need to wrap my damn ticket in tinfoil? Seriously, is there something I can carry my tickets in to keep this from happening all summer long, because short of carrying it in my hand I can't think of any way to keep it isolated from my other stuff... it'll get bent in my pocket, and obviously my bag is no longer an acceptable location. *sigh*
I may be jumping the gun a little bit, since I haven't gone home quite yet, but I was very pleased at the behavior of the fans going to and from the all-star game on my commute Sunday and today. Lots of people in their Giants gear and souvenir shirts and such, no rowdy drunks or screaming kids on my train, which surprised me. And the train wasn't packed with people either, which I fully expected.
Maybe I just overestimated how many people would be going to the city, but (to create my own BART poster here)...
THANK YOU
Polite, happy All-Star riders!
MY LIFE IS FUCKED BECAUSE OF BART. AND OH YEAH, IT ALSO GAVE ME ATHLETES FOOT.
THX
Dublin-Pleasanton to SF will now take 54 minutes. 54 minutes, it's now the longest commute into downtown SF.
When catching a train home from D/T SF, if a Dublin/Pleasanton train comes before their Fremont train, they will board the SRO D/P train even though a half-empty Fremont train is only three minutes behind!
This means there are twice as many people on the D/P than there should be. At least until Bayfair station when the Fremonters who couldn't wait 180 seconds for their train back in D/T SF file in mass out of the train. Then they kind of slowly spin around and around on the Bayfair platform like a lost drunk in super slo-motion who doesn't know where the hell he is.
The train stops long enough for me to watch some of these bastards pretend like they are following real Bayfair riders down the stairs. They slowly follow the real passengers for a minute or two, then they suddenly spin around, and walk back to the edge of the platform. I get it now! By that time, the platform LED signs are flashing
"FREMONT 10 CAR TRAIN". Boy, do they feel good! They beat the fucking system again!
Yeah, it's a ridiculous pet peeve. BUt I see it everyday. And I see the exact same people doing it. Of course, I ride all the way to Pleasanton so it mildly irks me.
Just one time, I'd like to see the T/O forget/refused to stop at Bayfair and Castro Valley. How pissed would those train-hoppers be? I would give my right arm just to see the looks on their faces when they find out the system beat them this night.
Does anyone know what the problem at 24th was? Just curious. When I got on the train, it was only going to go as far as Montgomery but then the situation was resolved and service restored.
I've always wondered who this guy is? Montgomery BART morning commute. Asian middle aged man plays the flute and I have never seen anyone give him a dime. Strange. I wonder why? Maybe because he doesn't appear to be your typical starving musician that most people would want to help out. Instead he is fairly well dressed, has a cell phone/Blackberry clipped to his belt, and doesn't look like he's missed any meals.
I do like it when the "ensemble" plays. A group of four or five young Berkeley-type adults playing classical music. And they're really good. Probably good enough to play in a symphony. I always drop them a buck when they play because they're good, and they are thankful for the contribution.
The Rapper/DJ guy in the afternoon doesn't do anything for me. Riders usually try to avoid going through the turnstiles nearest to him.
So who is your fav BART musician?
Does anyone care that Bart is going to remove the
Bart Passenger Parking Lot on Bosworth across from the
Glen Park Station and sell to a developer?
I travel and park conviently on this lot and soon I
will not be able too. This is another dumb idea because this Bart Station is one block from the Freeway Entrance and Exit and is a straight shot from San Jose Avenue, and other major car routes. In other words this Parking Lot is accesible.
People, lets send letters to the Supervisors and Bart to not have this Lot removed.
I am sure that the Glen Park Neighborhood does not want to lose anymore parking, they already have very little around for their shopping area.
The loss of this parking will have many Bart riders using the few parking meters that are left in Glen Park
Neighborhood.
The only times I/ve seen anyone use one of those green senior tickets is when they are being abused by a non-senior person. I remember a while back when my mother bought a senior ticket that gave her like $30 worth of rides for $5.
I almost never see an elderly person riding BART. When one does get on a train, other riders look shocked.