You shall not pass!!!

So I'm coming home from Dialysis but I can't ride the train because I went Downtown two days prior to get a new bus pass as mine was not working properly. I had put off the trip for months because I knew that I could not get the replacement immediately due to it being a paratransit pass but it just wasn't working. The bus driver told me that I could get it replaced the same day but I knew different. Fine! I guess it could not be put off any longer and I wanted to get the new one before it got cold outside. So I call Ventra to ask where I should go. The customer service guy tells me the building and off I go, When I get there I find out that they moved the RTA part of the office but the Ventra part is still there. DAMN!! When I talk to the Ventra lady my pass suddenly decides to work. BASTARD!! The Ventra lady tell me there is nothing she can do and sends me to the RTA office which was back at City Hall. Son of a BITCH When I get there I tell them my sob story. They check the pass and note that the card is damaged and ok's my getting a replacement. "$5, please." I go to reach for my money and she tells me they don't take cash. SHIT! She immediate tell me that 7-11 has money orders (I think she was getting kick backs on the money orders because they were $1.59 a piece.) so I had to leave the line to get my money order. When I get back to the line she tells me that it will take 7 to 10 business days for my replacement to be MAILED TO ME!!! "But there is a camera right there!!" "That's for the seniors getting their passes." ASS!!! At this point I feel as though I'm coming down with Tourette's Syndrome with all the cussing that is going through my head. So at this point I ask if my pass will continue to work while I'm waiting to get my replacement. The lady assures me that it will work up until I activate the new one. I pay for the pass and leave. The very next morning my pass stops working at the train station. MotherFUCK!!!

So I'm on my way home but I can only take buses because I can't load the card and the pass won't work. I decide I want to go down Garfield (55th Street) so a can get some chicken rings from White Castle (that is the only food I can get from them since everything else from there stinks up the bus to high Heaven) but I got on the wrong friggin' bus!! It is the 59th street bus. No chicken rings for you!! I notice that 59th street is desolate and barren. almost every house is abandoned and boarded up. The driver is barreling down the road at top speed and is hitting every puddle he can. He is not worried about splashing anyone because there is no one to splash. It's so desolate that even the drug dealers are in poverty. It's how I imagine Mars would look like if it had streets and houses. I see a family in the middle of a grassy field that used to be houses. I assume the are looking for Pokemon but even that seems sparse. We get to Ashland in record time and I see the bus that I would have missed if I had taken the 55th street route. I guess it worked out for the better because I got a burrito instead. Ummm, burritos.