This is actually a part two to yesterday’s rant I started as I was leaving work.

Here is a bit of back story of the practices of the Regional Transit Authority for Sacramento. In the past, when running late, they would dump off riders at a certain point along the line and then turn around and head back into town now back on schedule. Their goal is to keep to the schedule and damn any of the riders that are inconvenienced by this apparent premature dumping. Now let me also explain that for most of the tracks length they have two lines, one dedicated for outward bound, and one for inward bound. At some point along the way it is no longer feasible to maintain dual lines and so they run only a single line towards the end of the route. I get it, it makes sense, and it’s kinda of redundancy of resources when one line would suffice.

Last night the train heading out of downtown was running late again. I don’t know the reason nor do I care. All I know is that just after where the track split they elected to dump us off at the Hazel stop in the cold. The conductor said another train would be following her and would coming to pick us up shortly to take us the rest of the way down the line.

Okay I buy the logic in this but not so much the inconvenience it puts upon us, especially when you learn what happened next. The train finishes unloading us and the driver makes her way from the old front of the train to the rear of it, or the new front, and heads back into town. She doesn’t even cross the next boulevard before crashing into a car and having to be stuck there.

So there we are, within sight of this debacle, freezing our asses off, wondering how long this mess is going to take to clear up before we can get to our stops and go home for the night.

The car the train crashed into was being driven by a woman and her two kids. First, who the fuck can’t see a train that is 300 feet long coming their way? Second, who the fuck does stupid shit like this with their kids in the backseat? She suffered moderate injuries and her kids fared much better. I will admit it, the republican a part of me, the part that isn’t prolife once a baby is born, is wishing she had died. If only she had died before reproducing. Now with the kids I know that if she had died those kids would be in a really messed up life.

It just goes to show how one persons “Oh I’m special and need special treatment” can end up causing so much grief for those she is completely ignorant towards, which apparently includes her own kids. I could say her single moment of selfishness cost close to a thousand people’s time and resources when you include all those left on the station, those on the next few trains also going home, the emergency crews having to be dispatched, and everyone’s families that had to come and pick up the various stranded passengers.

-Fucking idiot.