I swear I was on the #6 bus today and there was A/C. And the weather was nice from my apartment to the bus stop, then from the Monkeberg Str. bus stop to about Anson's before the sky opened up and people ran as if they were allergic to water.

In re A/C: Well, you're riding a bus line that gets those nice big shiny new articulated buses! I either take the S-Bahn or ride line 112, which seemingly gets whatever equipment is left after every other bus driver in the city gets his pick.

If the bus I rode in yesterday was the star of a children's book, it would have been the ungainly-yet-scrappy Little Bus That Could that gets made fun of by all of the other buses in the yard. We stopped at a bus stop and the driver had to cut the engine and run outside to fasten down some panel on the side of the bus that had flown open. Another time, we got an "Airport Express" bus -- naturally, everyone was standing up because there was plenty of room for luggage, but no seats.

(But riding in spiffy new Mercedes Citaro buses isn't always the bed of roses it's made out to be -- I wonder how come the Hamburger Abendblatt didn't have anything to say after that news story broke in London a few months ago?)