After years of issues with Para Transpo for various reasons, today I reached my breaking point with them. An ongoing problem that I think most people have with them, among everything else is the fact that all they do is make us wait. This could be to be picked up or the countless hours I have spent on hold with them for something as simple as asking for a ride. There is even another issue I have with them, the large amount of stupidity exhibited by them when they send multiple vehicles for Chris and I when we go out as well as sending me a separate bus even though the one that is present is in fact heading in the same direction I am.

Despite all of this, I have found myself over the years getting into trouble with drivers if I’m late getting out to the bus after they’ve arrived. Of course, this started in the most infamous of incidents with a driver named Chris on a day when I had a headache. However, over time it has spread to other drivers who tell me I need to be more prompt, that they have other pick ups… and I think there was one instance where a driver rudely told me “thanks a lot” for making them wait. Well, I would waste no time in accepting full responsibility for being in the wrong if they weren’t such hypocrites. That’s all they do. They make me wait, (I can’t speak for anyone else but I’m sure other people have the same problem,) the app fails to show that the vehicle is on their way in accordance with my actual pick up time, before the app was introduced, I pulled my hair out trying to get through to locate the vehicle and I can’t count the times they have given me false information…..saying the vehicles was five or a few mins away when it’s really still an hour away.

Wel, today I had a legitimate reason. If ever anyone is wondering why I hate taking para transpo, It’s because it’s a constant rush to get me on the bus before it takes off. This time however, it had some physical circumstances.

As I was trying to get ready for my para transpo to come to the library, I found myself rushing as I tried to see if my phone charger was working, (I know this seems unrelated but I need to know if it does by the time I leave as there has been times when I return home when it didn’t,) and get a snack ready to bring with me. Without warning and perhaps because I was going too fast, I tripped over my foot and fell backwards landing back first into my bedside table and forcing my bed and the table to be pushed off to the side. As I knew the bus was literally a second away, I felt stuck as I laid there in pain screaming and swearing indirectly calling para every name in the book for constantly forcing me to be out on time. Somehow, I was able to make it out the door right before the bus would have left on me. Despite explaining to the driver that I had fallen, (and actually as the fall occurred I was debating an ambulance as I couldn’t move,) he still had the nerve to yell at me and say:

“We only have a limited time to wait. It doesn’t matter if you hurt yourself or not.”

This is just a prime example of how much they are hypocrites. They make me and everybody else wait and god forbid if we call them out on it. This is also an example of the fact that I should just stay home from time to time and watch that tv I never get to watch…maybe I could write another blog about a movie I watched. The point is that I have reached the end of my rope in terms of my patience with them…..giving them the benefit of the doubt, ETC. I NEED TO STAY HOME FROM NOW ON!