Buses Take Time. Yogi Berra Didn't Say That

The Great Ducknik is currently not driving. This means she is using public transportation. This means for an 8:30am appointment this morning she left the house at 7:20.

Plotnik could have bicycled there in half an hour easy.

But he will drive over and pick her up at 9:15. This means he will leave at 9am and probably get there early.

Public trans: an hour. Bike: Half an hour. Car: 12 minutes. Plotnik wishes the discussion on municipal transit would say this out loud once in awhile so they could include in their decision making the way people actually live.

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He's picking up Ducknik so they can get out to the Legion of Honor to see the Pissarro exhibition before it closes on Sunday. Why do they always wait until the last minute? Yesterday, Plottie saw the Saint Plotniko photography show at Pier 24. It is closing next week.

He was less than thrilled with that exhibition, but that had something to do with the fact that he decided to drive to it, in order to save time. But that meant he had to park. Parking meant he had to deal with the "new" meter system in front of Pier 24. It doesn't work. No matter how many times you push Green which means CONCLUDE TRANSACTION, nothing happens. And the meter jams so no one behind you can use it either.

So all the time he was inside the museum he was thinking he was going to get towed away any second. It didn't help his enjoyment of this massive exhibit, but as always the old Genthe and Muybridge photos, taken over a century ago, are breathtaking.

Plotnik likes small museums, or, failing that, small exhibitions in large museums, or if it's going to be a huge exhibition in a huge space, at least give the poor uniformed viewer some explanation as to why that photo of the hobo from 1972 is important. Or, if there is to be a lot to see and no explanation whatsoever, at least make it uncrowded. Pier 24 was just about empty, except for Plottie.

Plottie's favorite photo, aside from the Genthe and Muybridge, was a shot taken in Yankee Stadium at night. Why was that photo included in this exhibition? Who the hell knows? But he loved looking at all the people in rapt attention and the old Longine's scoreboard. Number 7 was at bat, according to the numbers on the scoreboard, followed by Number 8. That's Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, folks.