Dear Transit Company,

I realize that snow is not good. Especially when the streets do not get plowed, there is too much snow on the sides of the streets and there are trouble getting things done. I got on the 4:10pm bus to go home. I will generally get home at about 4:30 or 4:35. I got home at 5:30pm. How? Oh... Dearest transit... I'm about to tell you.

The 3:50 bus was on C Street, the corner of it, actually, and had hazard lights on. My bus was behind it because C St. was too small to get around the first bus. The 4:30 and the 4:50 bus were also on the same block of C St. Yeah, that was great. Really, it was. Could the first bus have not called the transit people to tell them that they would be blocking the street?

At around 5:00pm, everyone on the first three buses all piled off and got onto the fourth bus and somehow the first three buses all moved out of the way. The fourth bus? This magical bus that was somehow supposed to get me to my stop? Yeah... It started rolling backwards. It had trouble at every single stop that the bus had to stop at to let people off. It was a joy, really.

So, dearest transit company... Please, pretty, pretty please, invest some money in better snow tires. Invest some money on better communication tools. Invest some money in being able to physically run buses on days were there is snow. I still love you, really I do. You're saving me a huge amount of money each month with my discounted student pass, so I do love you.

But your incapabilities of running trains or buses while it is snowing is a pain. So... Fuck you.

Dear Computer Guy,

I am a huge fan of technology, I am. I'm a huge fan of being about to access the internet even if I'm moving around, I'm a huge fan of receiving and sending text messages, I'm a huge fan of laptops in general. But that is besides the point.

You were sitting in front of me on the bus and you pulled out your laptop and turned it on. It only took a moment before your screen blinked to life and you got onto your desktop and opened up a movie-viewing program and started watching a film.

I didn't really pay attention to you at first because you looked so... passive. Dressed smart with a button down dress shirt, pressed jacket that matched your pants, black dress shoes (I sat down first, so I did notice this). You just looked like a young businessman wanting to get home after a day at the office. You were clean cut, no stubble and, last but not least, a gold band on your left ring finger.

As I stated before, I am a huge fan of technology. But if you're going to be watching your pornographic films on your laptop, could you at least turn the volume down or off? Or better yet, plug in a set of headphones?

You had the volume loud enough so that I could hear it over one of the louder songs of the Les Miserables (Original Broadway Cast Recording). I mean, seriously, you had the volume up pretty high.

I thought I was hearing things at first, so I pulled out one of my earphones and then realized that yes, I wasn't hearing things. I looked around and then looked forward and certainly got an eyeful.

I don't have a problem with pornography, I don't have a problem with the people who choose to watch it or choose to be in it. I do, however, have a problem with the people (ie. you) who choose to watch it in public with the volume turned way up when there were children under the age of five on the bus. I mean, I suppose you could claim that it's educational (in a sense), but seeing women being held in bondage and men holding the whips isn't rather educational.

So next time that you feel like getting off on the bus, could you please either wait until you get home, turn the volume off (or down?) or just plug in a set of headphones so no one has to hear the moans and groans of the paid actors and actresses of a pornographic film? It would just be respectful to the people around you.