Using Public Transportation instead of Driving
Today I noticed something very strange indeed. Whilst I was driving down the road I saw a person waiting at the bus stop and while this is not strange in and of itself...what the person was doing as they were waiting amazed me. This person was dancing. Can you believe that? Dancing. What could they possibly be happy about? Public transport is like forced labor. I mean, sure they might have obtained that new job they were wanting or maybe they found out that they did not have a terminal disease, but nothing would make me take public transport and be jubilant about it.
Let me start this off by saying that, we, as a nation are dependent on the automobile. This is not in question. The car has come to symbolize freedom and in fact America it self. Being able to go where ever you want whenever you want is the basis of free society. The first step of Communism is the limitation of movement. I like driving because, in addition to the reasons above stated, I can be in my own environment, listening to my own music, driving at my own pace,and stopping where I want to stop when I want to stop. There are days when I wake up and just go for a drive. Not to anywhere or for anything, but just to drive. It relaxes me, as if the act of driving is somehow therapeutic. Why would any person not try to attain this sort of freedom? To me it seems that no cost is too great, no obstacle too great to keep me from driving.
In the face of this argument I can not see one supporting the option of public transport. In a nutshell, the buses are dirty, the people are dirty, they smell of diesel fuel (and worse at times), the drivers are tired and inconsiderate, and there might just be urine in your seat. The music (if any) is sterilized nonsense, you have to wait on everyone else, you can only get off or on at the designated points, and it seems that Big Brother is watching your every move. People will undoubtedly make the argument that public transport saves gasoline and in turn saves the environment, but I bet that the people who do make that argument do so whilst getting into their brand new Audi.
It makes so much more sense, to me, to save a few dollars a week and buy a used Honda. You can get one cheap and run it even cheaper. I would even make a wager that it would use less gasoline than the bus on a daily basis, and cost the taxpayer less to boot. So while you are waiting for your "concentration camp on wheels" in the heat (or the cold) I will be driving by in my little slice of home with Led Zep playing loud, the windows down, cheering for America.
