This Dreaded Day Of Travel
Well, tomorrow we head to our respective homes for the Thanksgiving break, and join the travelling masses once again. I forget how amazingly awesome NYC's public transportation is until something like this comes along. Day in and day out I get to and from work without much of a thought. Sure, sometimes the trains are delayed a bit, but really, I've been a lot more pissed off sitting in traffic than I ever have been waiting for a train.
Now, granted, I will be sitting on a bus for this trip, but that's actually what's got me worried. See, originally I had planned to check with Greyhound and make sure that they were going to be running plenty of extra buses and have someone at Greyhound reassure me that they do this every year, and delays are expected but everyone eventually gets there. If the customer service person laughed at me and asked what the hell I was doing taking a bus the day before thanksgiving, I was going to suck it up and pay the extra bit for the train.
Well, I found myself a bit sidetracked by life, and although incredibly happy with the life stuff that occured in the time when I was supposed to be doing all this travel planning, i've left myself with sold out trains and the realization that customer service at greyhound bus is "claire, your virtual service representitive."
I know claire... I know her all too well. I've unleashed my fury on Sprint's "claire" many a time and needless to say, we're not on speaking terms.
So, seeing that I'm a web geek by trade, I did what any self respecting nerd would do and scoured the Greyhound site for any sign of preparation on their part. What I found instead was a digitial "go screw yourself if you're travelling tomorrow." The site basically says, if your bus is sold out, get on the next one if there are seats, but that one's sold out too, oh, and the one after that, and by the way, we're still selling tickets for said sold out busses, so it may be till, oh, maybe saturday before we can get you there. By the way, no refunds or exchanges. Suck it, and have a nice day.
Wish me luck.
