If you're first time to Beijing, the most impressive thing for you would be its traffic! There's no where like such traffic jam anywhere I went to!
I grown up here in this city and working here, so I would have face to the reality of its terrible traffic every morning! plus my shitty company's fucking policy of a fine for late! In this world you would know how precious money is to you, the shitty company doesn't pay for your traffic no matter you spend 2 yuan for bus, 3 yuan for subway or 40 yuan for taxi, it's just gives fine and never late for fine!
Back to the topic, usually 7:00-9:30am is the traffic peak time, the whole Beijing main road is just like a super big parking yard! It doesn't charge for parking so long fortunately.
Well, set apart of waiting patiently on the bus, there is also a hard part of the process which is to get on the bus. In the morning you could feel Beijing is really indeed a big city with 14,000,000population! almost everyone's on the street! In the bus station, few people really get in line, or they pretend so, when the bus comes, people are rushing unto the bus, not far from the terminal, the bus was already half full, and the booking clerk was shouting:" if it's hard to get on please take the next bus!" Okay, you wait for the next bus to be less crushed into jam. When the last bus comes, you get on and buzz the card. You have to find a safe place for yourself, not close to the door, coz there are thief and more crowded than anywhere else, since everyone tend to be lazy, so they just stand there. You cannot stand in between of the wheels, because it's the narrowest part of a bus, you might be hurt if anyone just want to get through, you cannot also stand tall on the wheel, it might be dangerous also! Shit! with so many people nearby, there's really few places to stand! Well on the bus you would smell the different kind of smell from anywhere of this world. Those cheap perfume's smell feels no better than the salty fish's smell...urg...and I could only stand by window as close as possible, and also careful not to be crushed out of the window, hehe, this is a little extravagant.
It takes about at least one hour on each bus, some stations might be close, usually it takes 2-3 minutes without traffic problem, if there is a traffic jam, it could take up to an hour! and the booking clerk and the driver will not open the door to let you walk on the street for your safety! This is right thought...but sometimes...
Well, if there are any uneducated people on the bus, you... I could only show my sincerest pity on you. Someone spit, someone might smoke (this is no problem, you could even shout at him if anyone dare to do so in public indoor places) someone might don't offer seats for the old and the weak, someone might just speak very much loudly in phone! Or speak loudly with his friends...Despise!
Okay, imagine, everything fine until your own terminal, you have to rush out of the bus in the crowd, to say, please 20 times within half minutes really make you feel tired... so poor of you get off the bus and it's the time to run to your company!
Shit!
