Megabus... YOU SUCK.

This is my little online rant about Megabus.  The first time I took Megabus to State College from New York City, it was great!  The bus pulled out from near Penn Station at about 7:00 a.m. and got to State College around 11:15 a.m., and we even took a 15 minute stop.  Couldn't really have gotten any better unless I had gotten there early enough to get a window seat!

So when I had to buy a bus ticket to go home this past weekend for my sister Sarah's shower, I thought, yeah, Megabus is only $23, I can work most of the day Friday, take the 4:30 p.m. bus, and make it home by 9 p.m.!

WRONG!

When I got to the bus stop, one of the workers told me that the State College/Pittsburgh bus was running a little bit behind schedule.  It turns out that "a little bit behind schedule" means AN HOUR! You may be thinking, cool it Maria, it was only an hour late.  But that was only the beginning of Megabus' giant fail.

We finally got on the road around 5:30 p.m. and everyone was relieved to be on the road.  Shortly after leaving the city, right outside of the Lincoln Tunnel to be exact, our bus driver pulled that thing over to the side of the road and made an announcement that he was going to turn the bus off and back on again in hopes that it would "reset itself."  What does that even mean?

Turns out the bus was incapable of "resetting itself,"  so we waited there on the side of the road for over 2 hours for a new bus to come rescue us.  The only saving grace was that the girl I was sitting next to (shout out to Ashanti) was a grad student at PSU, and she was SO funny.  For real, that girl should be a comedian.

After multiple buses drove past us and honked, our rescue bus finally arrived and we got on the road yet again.  As the bus driver said, "Well, we're already screwed on time, and I'm sure everyone is thirsty and hungry, so we're going to stop as soon as I see a gas station and then we'll stop somewhere again to get something to eat."  ARE YOU SERIOUS?  We are already running like 4 hours late and you're going to stop to get some cheetos?  Anyways, that being said, I have to commend the guy.  He kept his spirits up even though he had to be just as discouraged with the situation as everyone else.  He actually encouraged all of us to call Megabus and tell them how we felt about that little trip.  I think I might just do that... or get Barry to = )

We ended up pulling in to State College around 2:00 a.m. -- FIVE HOURS LATER than we were supposed to get there.  It seriously reminded me of a field trip in elementary school where our charter bus broke down... it was terrible.  Zach, being the wonderful boyfriend that he is, came to pick me up anyways even though it was SO late, and we got home around 3:30.  Talk about a long day.

So yeah... anyways... Megabus, YOU SUCK.