Dispatch from a Metro bus

When: Yesterday, approx 4:50 pm

Where: 30-line Metro bus heading towards Downtown DC

What: Hot, humid, muggy bus full of hot, sweaty people. A/C is, of course, broken. I've got a homeless guy in front of me, and a large woman behind me who is apparently dying of consumption (TB), coughing all over my neck. Between the not so fresh smell and the fear of airborne contagions (flu season should be funnnnnnnnn), it's all I can do to sit there miserably and count the days until my office moves to Union Station and I'm one quick VRE ride away.