Not quite Rapid...

We are a one car family. And a small tiny little car it is too. Wonderful nifty little Kelisa, saves petrol, zips around town and slots into the tiniest of parking lots. ;) All good.

The hubs and I share this wonderful little cili padi. Some days he takes the train/bicycle, some days the noodle and I take the train/bus/bicycle. We take turns depending on who has the more time consuming travel of the day.

Today it was the Noodle and my turn to take public transportation. And I was excited. We had to travel to our friend's home in Melawati which is about 15 minutes drive away for the Noodle's art class. Getting there was going to be interesting. It's close by, so should be quite easilyla... So, the night before, I did my research. I knew what buses come close to us (close being a 20 minute under the hot sun walk away), and where it ends up. Okay, that sorted. Now, what buses ended up near my friend's place - found. Okay, that sorted too. But the connections - OMG.

First, the 20 minute walk to the bus stop. I found out that our area was designated "too rich" to have public buses coming in to service the residents here. Nevermind that I don't live in a those "too rich" houses up the hill, they still deem my place non-service required.

Still, at least there's a bus stop which takes us directly to LRT stations. I'm very grateful for that. That's that. RM1.90 and 30 minutes later, the bus will get me to a convenient LRT station. Yay, then a train ride circa RM2 and another 10 minutes later, I'd have to alight and take a 5 minutes stroll to another train line. That one will cost me another RM2 or so and another 10 minutes to my intended destination. Alighting at my final train stop, I can then, wait for a bus, pay RM2.50 and sit the entire journey (which will last about 45 minutes based on what I see on google maps of the stops) almost to the last stop to get to my friend's place in Melawati. I live 15 minutes drive away.

Okay, the reason why I wrote all of that in would be/will is because the Noodle and I didn't manage to catch all those buses and trains. When we got to the bus stop, I did my calculations for both money and time, I realized that it is more efficient for me to just flag a taxi.

And we did. It cost us RM10 and 15 minutes.