#35 35th Bus

I was in unfamiliar territory yesterday… trying to catch a bus I had never been on while trying to get to somewhere I had only been twice… all while holding 5 pounds of cookies!
I got off the 35^th street stop on the red line and planned on taking a cab to my boyfriend’s work. Yeah… so I learned that NO cabs ever go around there and after almost 10 min of waiting a bus finally showed up. I thought ok… I guess I am takin’ the bus!
I walked on board and asked the driver if this bus rides along 35^th street. He said to me «Yes Ma’am». He didn’t say «yeah» or grunt or ignore me… he gave me a very polite answer. Then I asked him if it stopped near Racine and he said «Yes Ma’am» AGAIN! AMAZING!
Then he even remembered I wanted to stop at Racing b/​c he looked my way where I was sitting on the bus and said «This is racine». How nice!
Anyway I was very pleasantly surprised at my experience. Being in an area I didn’t know was bad enough… I didn’t need anymore drama! I arrived at my destination with a smile on my face. :)

When I lived in Chicago, I HATED this bus. It was even worse when there was no bus tracker — I lived at just the right distance where if I caught the bus, I would shave 10 minutes off my commute (as it took about 10 minutes to walk to the Red Line). If I didn’t catch it, I would either think one would be coming right away, and end up adding 20 minutes to my commute, or just turning around and going back home and saying «fuck it» to the day. I missed many a classes at IIT because of this bus.

would be 5 stars, but the CTA has a tendacy to NOT have more than one bus waiting after a sox game. There are PLENTY OF sox fans WAITING for this bus after games. Is it so hard to have 2 buses on hand postgame?