Camp Taji is not the biggest FOB I've ever been on, nor is it the smallest. It's sizeable enough to require a bus system. However, I do not ride the bus. Even in Iraq, I'm too cool to ride a bus for public transportation. I'd rather walk to the chow hall or to the gym in 115 degree weather than board a bus full of weirdos who are too lazy to walk to the chow hall or the gym in 115 degree weather. I think of the walk as a super awesome cleanse-your-body-by-sweating-your-ass-off work out.
Bus stops and bus schedules on Camp Taji are very similar to how they look and work back in the States. At least I assume they are because I won't be caught dead on a bus. EVER. Even if I was missing a foot... well maybe if I was footless.
Everyday I pass this seemingly normal bus stop:
But today I noticed this:
Why? It looks like a bus stop. There is a road beside it looks like it could use a bus stop. I don't understand the purpose of a random enclosure with benches that looks like a bus stop, yet is not a bus stop. And to go so far to post a sign that it is not, in fact, a bus stop? Craziness! If it's not a bus stop, like the sign says, then what is it? Besides another charming example of government money wasted.
Hmmm. Maybe it's a place where you can sit and watch a concert? Or an outdoor movie?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just a shaded way-station for all the hard-asses who walk to the gym or chow hall.
"Maybe it's just a shaded way-station for all the hard-asses who walk to the gym or chow hall."
ReplyDeleteI was totally thinking this myself!
I'm pretty sure it's there to make you think. Like an inspiring piece of art or a national monument.
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