Adventures while riding buses
Apr. 25th, 2005 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeI've got another appointment with the nurse practitioner at Lahey Clinic coming up in two weeks, so since I had a free day, I thought I'd make a dry run on the Lahey Clinic/Burlington Mall bus route today. The way my brain works, I often have to make a dry run with some things so that I get an idea of what I'm dealing with. It makes it easier, since it'll familiarize me with the territory and I won't be getting baffled along the way....
I also discovered there's a comic book/sci-fi stuff store in Lowell, so I decided to figure out a bus route there... only to find out that the bus I was told would go down the street it's on, didn't go past the place. So, I ended up walking there, since it turned out to be within walking distance of the downtown area -- I just have to manuever crossing the streets, with an antiquated cross walk light one one corner, that doesn't look like it works; and another, much newer one that yaps at you when you press the button. I know it's for the visually impaired, but it still scared the bejeebers out of me when I pressed the button and the thing said something like "It Is UnSafe To Cross. Please Wait", and then started ticking at me like a bomb on a timer!
But the trip was well worth the bus and traffic light shenanigans: I found the last two "Sandman" compilations, which I snapped up. I almost got "Death: The High Cost of Living" and the latest issue of "Hellblazer", but I was a leetle bit short on cash. Next time! ... I see myself nipping in there at least once a month from this point onwards.
I also discovered there's a comic book/sci-fi stuff store in Lowell, so I decided to figure out a bus route there... only to find out that the bus I was told would go down the street it's on, didn't go past the place. So, I ended up walking there, since it turned out to be within walking distance of the downtown area -- I just have to manuever crossing the streets, with an antiquated cross walk light one one corner, that doesn't look like it works; and another, much newer one that yaps at you when you press the button. I know it's for the visually impaired, but it still scared the bejeebers out of me when I pressed the button and the thing said something like "It Is UnSafe To Cross. Please Wait", and then started ticking at me like a bomb on a timer!
But the trip was well worth the bus and traffic light shenanigans: I found the last two "Sandman" compilations, which I snapped up. I almost got "Death: The High Cost of Living" and the latest issue of "Hellblazer", but I was a leetle bit short on cash. Next time! ... I see myself nipping in there at least once a month from this point onwards.
