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Give me one word and I will tell you something related to that word about myself that I am comfortable sharing publicly.
ETA: Some more non-food prompts would be nice: the queue currently includes apple, citrus, popcorn, and potatoes.
gingicatGive me one word and I will tell you something related to that word about myself that I am comfortable sharing publicly.
ETA: Some more non-food prompts would be nice: the queue currently includes apple, citrus, popcorn, and potatoes.
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β Destruction.
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That wasn't my usual hour for subway riding: I'd been hanging out with
"Finally" because I'd wanted one for years, not (as is often the case) because they missed a deadline.
This goes under "metropolitan" because "MTA" stands for "Metropolitan Transportation Authority," and anything about the Metropolitan Museum of Art would also be reaching.
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I do like the RFID CharlieCards used in Boston better.
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I may still have a souvenir token or two around, but I mostly did my best to spend them/cash them in when the specific tokens became obsolete. In retrospect, I wish I had one each of a NYC, Boston, and Toronto token.
I don't know whether London ever used tokens; when I visited Paris I got a weekly farecard to save money, which I technically wasn't eligible for as a nonresident*, and when Lise and I went to Hong Kong I took
*You were supposed to be a resident of the Ile de France (Paris and the surrounding area); I took Lonely Planet's advice, got passport-sized photos to bring with me, walked into a station that wasn't where tourists tend to arrive, walked up to the fare booth and said "Carte hebdomadaire, s'il vous plait" while sliding 100 francs and the photo under the grille. The cashier gave me an ID card, a little ticket for that week's rides, and 30 francs change. I think the conversion was about five francs to the dollar, but it's been a long time; I remember the exchange rate for Hong Kong because the Hong Kong dollar has been pegged at about 7.8 to the US dollar for decades. [My "travelcard" icon is the pre-Oyster ID for the greater London Tube and buses; I may still have the Paris card, in the drawer with a small amount of Hong Kong money and French francs as a souvenir; I have the francs because on a later trip through the Amsterdam airport I was able to exchange my French notes for euros but the exchange wouldn't take the coins.)
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It definitely felt like fare increases happened more frequently once the tokens were no longer necessary.
I've used farecards in the DC Metro system and the London system. Can't recall if the BART was already using farecards during my brief visit in the early 90s.
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Seattle-area (Sound Transit and King County Metro) I have a stored-value card RFID, and it turned out not to make sense to buy a monthly card in part because they count(ed) a round trip on the same bus line as one trip if you board the return bus within, I think, two hours. I got there late enough that I don't know what they used before that; all I remember from my previous visits is the odd rule (which had ended sometime before I moved west) that buses were free if you boarded in downtown Seattle.
I have an Opus card for the Montreal metro; the weekly passes there, unlike here and NYC, are for calendar weeks, so whether I get one depends not just on how long I'm going to be in town. Those are chipped cards, so you have to take them out and touch the appropriate bit of the turnstile or farebox. I have a specific outside pocket of my parka that I keep it in during winter visits.
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Nifty!
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Chicago was late to the tokens thing, where fare raises weren't as much of an issue as perhaps cutting down on significant theft by a few fare-booth workers. Also, I liked the simplification: no more worries about exact change on buses, and speedier entry generally.
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I also like the variety of tangerine that's sold in Chinatown, and Chinese grocery stores elsewhere, as "New Year's tangerines, They usually often have the stem on, sometimes with a green leaf or two.
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The advantage over actual radio is the "skip to next song" option, which I'm using a lot.
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