Daily writing prompt

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

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On one hand, I feel this is something I should be very careful in saying. On the other hand though, I’ve been waiting for any excuse to air my grievances with this very thing. This is one of those questions that has come around right when the subject was something I was upset about and complaining about it would have gotten me in trouble. If this wasn’t the case, then it would be something I was coincidentally thinking about before reading the question thus giving me every opportunity to give my opinion on it. There is nothing in this world I hate more than the public transit system. I do have to apologize to anyone who works for para transpo who may use this site as well I have to apologize to anyone who uses and relies on them as much as I do. I do not mean to offend anybody, especially those who think highly of it which I do on occasion. I have to be completely honest in saying that I do not like the service. I started using them full time when I was a teenager and right at that moment, I had complaints about them as they were always late. Every day, I found myself calling to locate the vehicles and I would either get busy signals or be on hold for what seemed like hours on end. After high school, I thought it would get better. Boy was I wrong. In fact, I only found a lot more reasons to dislike them such as the way they run the service first of all, (more specifically sending multiple vehicles for my friend and I when we’re going to the same place from the same destination and the countless other pickups between point a and point b.) This caused me major problems at my job. I already didn’t like the job in the first place but having to wait for two to three hours on end for them to show up, (especially when I was exhausted from the job,) was really hard. Factor in the issues with the office not giving me accurate estimates as to when my vehicle will arrive combined with the 1000 other pickups when it finally did and my job became the worst thing to ever happen to me. These days, I’m sort of at my wit’s end with them. I was picked up to go to giant tiger at 5 pm. According to my app, (which is only accurate when it wants to be,) I was to be home at around 7:15 pm from a 7 pm pickup. Like it always does though, the app wasn’t displaying the time when it should arrive and it ended up being more than an hour late with me having called the office twice in this time frame for updates on the vehicle. The lady first told me that the driver was on his way and then got called away on an emergency, (obviously this occurred due to their lack of resources,) and told me that the ride would arrive at about 8:15 p.m. The problem was that I checked my app at that time and there was still no vehicle showing on the app. I called back and the same dispatcher told me the bus should arrive by 8:52 pm. This was frustrating my mother, (who doesn’t usually get mad at this but encourages me and my friend to be patient,) so I knew it was a problem. I went about shopping in the store as if I wasn’t even waiting for a bus and suddenly, the app displayed that the driver was there momentarily. I went outside the store to see him pulling away only for him to notice me at the last second and berate me for not waiting for him outside. I kept my mouth shut where I wouldn’t normally in this situation but when I got home, it became clear that para was something that both my friend and I were using too much, (a conclusion I came to when I realized it upset mom,) and said that we should finally just take it when absolutely necessary citing the fact that maybe going out to these unnecessary places, (movies, restaurants, malls,) ETC wasn’t a good idea if the same thing was going to happen. I resolved to cancel tomorrow’s trip to the mall not wanting to deal with this again. Unfortunately, this resulted in an anxiety attack occurring albeit a short lived one which ended after I talked to mom. It didn’t help that I was still sick to a point and it can be argued that maybe I jumped the gun on going out after being sick for two weeks straight. This may have played a part in my impatience. Then again, for those who have taken this service before, is there even such a thing as patience? I’m glad this question came up because I feel much better being able to address my grievances with this service. However, the answer to this question should be crystal clear. If I could un invent anything, it would actually be two things as uninventing one results in the the other one also being un invented as well. I would definitely un invent public transit and get my own car. This would in turn also un invent my stress as 9 times out of 10, my stress results from this service.