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conulyWe've been there before. It's a long trip by bus - last stop on the S46. Except we took the S96, which is faster due to skipping stops, not realizing that sometimes that bus ends its route somewhere a 45 minute walk away.
Two more bus rides later we finally got there. The last bus driver was very helpful and dropped us off there without making us go to all the way to the stop and go back. (Of course, if he'd dropped us off 10 feet further along the road we would not have had to cross the railroad tracks, but I'm not complaining. He didn't make us pay, anyway)
Those kids are such damn smartasses, though. As is my habit, I counted them at each change. "One, two, three, four, five." This prompted calls of "Seventeen!" and "Eleven" and "Shit, where's $RANDOMNAME, did we leave them behind?" I told them, listen, I only was concerned about getting the nine year old home safely. For all I cared, the rest of them could just walk the whole way back to the North Shore.
Never again. (Well, they have to go at least one more time, but this time, they go with Jennifer.)
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Two more bus rides later we finally got there. The last bus driver was very helpful and dropped us off there without making us go to all the way to the stop and go back. (Of course, if he'd dropped us off 10 feet further along the road we would not have had to cross the railroad tracks, but I'm not complaining. He didn't make us pay, anyway)
Those kids are such damn smartasses, though. As is my habit, I counted them at each change. "One, two, three, four, five." This prompted calls of "Seventeen!" and "Eleven" and "Shit, where's $RANDOMNAME, did we leave them behind?" I told them, listen, I only was concerned about getting the nine year old home safely. For all I cared, the rest of them could just walk the whole way back to the North Shore.
Never again. (Well, they have to go at least one more time, but this time, they go with Jennifer.)
Diane Duane is officially out of the potential homelessness woods, but the ebook sale is ongoing. She is the only author I know of who edited an entire book to make it less inaccurate and offensive to autistics, and if I didn't already like her books I'd love her just for that.
'New generation of Nigerians' marks Olympic bobsled debut
How to 'Queer the Map'—and Fend Off Attack
'Sad' dog looking for kids to read to him is now all booked up
Amazing Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Southern California From Between the 1940s and 1960s
The Court Case That Killed the ‘Ladies Menu’
Cleaning krewe: Recycling effort targets Mardi Gras trash (One of my earliest memories is of sitting in preschool being told to cut up Mardi Gras beads for some project. I wasn't happy with the idea. I suppose this was our last year there before we moved up to NYC.)
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Contempt for Court
Police answered immigrant's call for help, then gave him to ICE (Unfuckingbelievable. As a matter of public safety, people need to be able to call the cops!)
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ICE Lawyer Charged With Stealing Immigrants' Identities To Commit Bank Fraud (Well, that's keeping it classy.)
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Date: 2018-02-17 06:07 am (UTC)I'm so glad that they're not in danger of losing their home now.
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