A Night on the Town

As any good college student living in New Haven knows, utilizing the Yale Shuttle as your transportation device is often an adventure. You may feel inconvenienced and annoyed by these sudden changes in your plans, but this is part of what makes you a college student; adaptability to sudden changes. So last night, Carlo and I go downtown. It was after 6 so the shuttle was not running on a regular schedule. We walk about 10 minutes down Prospect heading for Downtown New Haven. Lo and behold, a Blue Line Yale Shuttle comes rolling down the street. To save us from walking, and the frigid air, we get onto this shuttle and ride the rest of the way.

Everything goes along according to plan: Citibank, Rite Aid, Noodle House, and Starbucks. We pick up the Yale Shuttle right where we left it. It was even the same exact bus number, but a different driver; a new driver in training. The ride took an hour longer since it was the Blue nighttime route in the wrong direction, but we were just happy to be on a warm bus rather than standing at a cold bus stop with all of our purchases. We made so many loops around the same block that we felt like we were stuck in the twilight zone; seeing the same houses over and over again. Finally, we made it to the top of the hill on the corner of Highland and Prospect. Unfortunately, the driver turned right instead of continuing back to Albertus on prospect. Carlo and I looked and each other and knew we would be heading back downtown if we did not get off that shuttle ride. We pull the stop rope and we proceed off the shuttle and start slowly walking back to Albertus from Whitney and Highland. I called Courtney and told her about how we were walking back and she told me she would come pick us up. We were lucky she did because it was freezing out.

I concluded my night with a hot shower, indulging in delicious s'mores and leftover Chinese food from snowy nights past.