re: Before you were OT rich did you ever ride Greyhound???

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I’ve ridden Megabus to Houston.

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Due to my Dad's and then Mom's failing health, I had a need to be back and forth from Houston almost monthly during a good swath of 2015-2018. I kept a car at my Mom's in Baton Rouge and I took (mostly) MegaBus and (sometimes) Greyhound a couple dozen times I think.

I chose not to drive it, for a number of reasons. There were a couple downsides, but here's the upsides:
- free (and decent to good) WiFi so I was able to work my sales job (and post on the O-T) for the duration
- the trip by car tends to take 4.5 hours. By bus, as little as 5.0 to 5.5 hours (so not that bad)
- met some interesting folks along the way, including a kid playing Div II basketball heading home for Thanksgiving.
- no stress AT ALL from a-hole, slow, dangerous drivers
- when there was a delay on I-10.. no worries.. just got more work done
- 75% of the time the seat next to me was empty

ETA
- on a nasty, rainy day, it is nice to NOT be gripping the steering wheel for dear life... ok but yea, also hoping the bus driver (and bus) is in good condition as well. But statistically, and by miles driven, those busses are safe as shite.