the rix mix

Taxi to station, train to Newark, catch overheated #34 crosstown bus at Penn station, which becomes incredibly packed - I mean really ghetto bus experience at Broad & Market Streets. Get off at University medical complex. Upstairs in large doctor office building, receptionist sends me right through, assistant hands me a cup, I deposit urine sample, update HMO info on way out - this took all of 10 minutes - then reverse bus to train to Elizabeth. I walked home, needed to stop at Family Dollar. 2 1/2 hours. With a car, including parking in the far reaches of the decks, it might've been 2. I was supposed to do this last week. The week with one say of sleet, two days of snow, & a day I had to stay home for an inspection, which also took about 10 minutes.

The only amusing part was a woman got on the bus who fit the description of Lulu, Trenton bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's fat ex-ho sidekick in the Janet Evanovich novels. When she bent over to sit down, her tight jeans slipped so far I saw, literally, half her butt crack. Then she turned on her cell phone, which played the most gawdawful mechanical hip hop. She had a toddler boy on her lap.