Pyat rides the rails

[pyat]

Snow, snow, bloody snow.

The train drifted in the limbo between Burlington and Aldershot stations for 45 minutes, as "the switches" were cleared by hand, one at a time. I entertained myself by sending a series of saucy and florid text messages to velvetpage.

In the end, I got home 3 hours after I'd left the office, making 14 hour day out of the house. Grand! :)

My older sister (a nurse) had an interesting day of another kind, recently:

"...a lady came into the office asking for help to get her husband out her car since he was 'short of breath.' So myself and another nurse went to see and he was so short of breath he was actually dead."

Yikes.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Also reached Bayview before my bus did.

It's sort of cool when that kind of thing happens. You feel like, "Rar! I'm Faster than a Speeding Bus!"

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

When the landspeed of the Teddog exceeds that of a motorized vehicle, we have reached a sad point in history.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Yes, but were you laden, or unladen?

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I was laden, but so was the bus. However, due to it's lack of speed, the bus became increasingly unladen over time, but this had no effect on its overall speed.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe the bus would have gone faster if it had more people on it?

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Hrm. More people on the bus would mean less cars on the road and potentially going faster on the downhill parts, but it would more stress on the uphill parts. Eglinton and the surrounding area is not exactly flat.

That said, the slow downs were caused by stalled cars and accidents and I don't have a timeline as to when those obstacles where put into place. If they were recent, then more people on the bus would have prevented it. If they were older and not the result of rush hour traffic, the amount of people on the bus would have less of an effect.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

One wonders if there is a law of diminishing returns. Still, I theorize that, if everyone in the world got on the bus, that bus could travel through time.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

...

I'd go for it. I suggest we hijack the Yonge bus and pick up anyone and everyone we see.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

And the great thing is, the more people we put on the bus, the easier it will be to catch the next person.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Well, until we start going backwards through time and catch up to the last person who just got on.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

If we keep picking up people before we pick them up, we'd be pulled over for speeding, and for violations of the Blinkovitch Limitation Effect.