The On-going Struggle Between Man and Public Transportation

With December closing in on us ever so rapidly, I can't help but be reminded of how it's been nearly two years, and I still remain carless. This is a good time to try something that you probably haven't done in a while; use your imagination. Now assuming anyone is actually reading this, pretend that for the past 2 years you're the "proud" owner of a 1993 hatchback that screams "Gay," but has very much squeezed itself into every aspect of your miserable life. Done imagining that? Well, that was my reality just two years ago.
However gay it may have been, the lame P.O.S. I had dubbed the "Homo-bile," really made my life what it is, or at least what it used to be. However, the sleepless nights and mindless waste of precious fossil fuels was put to an end when the car eventually drowned itself in its own anti-freeze. So, a dead car has since left me with a single option; Public Transportation, primarily, the bus. Now, assuming that working around someone else's schedule isn't hard enough, it's even harder when a disgruntled bus driver decides to leave the end of the line ten minutes early, therefore ruining any chance I had to make it to work on time. Also about 99.7% of the time I have more productive things to do than waiting for the bus, like sleeping... at least I'm good at that. But it's not only issues pertaining to time that frustrate me with the bus, the average bus patron is a major pain in the ass. Here are some abusurd scenarios that have actually taken place on the wonderful Brockton public transportation system.

1. Fat insane lady - Needless to say, there's always a nosy bitch nearby. But to fair, she can't help that her social-life is nonexistant and that she's lead an otherwise pitiful life. Oh wait... you can help that. Which brings me to Fat Insane Lady. Fat Insane Lady (or FIL for short,) just couldn't keep to herself on the bus, butting into everyone's conversation gave her immense satisfaction to a disgusting degree. I actually feared for my life when she screamed at me for saying that a bus pass was a waste of money for someone who rides the bus as often as I do, and back then, it was less than once a week. So I'm wondering, why the hell would she care in the first place? Of course, we realized that FIL was insane by the time she was speaking to a girl about how DSS had taken "the children that had come from her womb". Yeah, why would they take children from a stable parent such as that?
2. Lady with Mirror - It's always nice to have a mirror. After all, nobody wants to leave the house ungroomed and otherwise unkempt. However, it's quite another thing to transport a frameless mirror on a public vehicle that is prone to making sudden stops. The entire trip I was waiting for the damn thing to break, but it figures that it didn't. Point is, imagine what would have happened had the mirror broken. Think physics.
3. Smelly people - I'm well aware that some people are less fortunate than others, but since I live in the real world, I can pretty much pinpoint when someone just plain doesn't shower. Just the other day, I saw someone in his work uniform, representing a popular, local eatery. And when I passed him, he was the most rank bastard I had ever caught a whiff of. It was so bad, that the smell lingered long after he had gotten off. Just the type of person I want handling my food.
4. Loud, rude, vulgar or otherwise obnoxious People - I squeezed all of these people into a single category because they essentially do the same thing that continually pisses me off; live. Now, while I may sound bitter, I believe that the world would be better off without such people. After all, you don't need some woman who points out the fact that you're white when you kindly ask her to close the window in the middle of a snowstorm. I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of people who act in such a manner aren't making any great contributions to society. After all, they're still riding the bus.
5. Litterbugs - Don't get me wrong, I'm no hippie, but I'd rather not sit in flith. That being said, consider a public vehicle that was so grotesque, even the driver wore rubber gloves... Well, welcome to my world.

While public transportation gets my ass to school and work, it's still a pain in the ass having to deal with all of its many flaws. While the public transportation system as a whole seems to be working well to accomodate its patrons, I personally believe that the system could be significantly improved my removing its one true flaw; people.