On 10 Apr 2007 at 15:49, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > Someone wrote (I forget who ;) > > > I am a person with a pretty definitive > > schedule, and a busy one, at that. Why should it follow, then, that > > I have no time for anything else? Or more specifically, don't have > > time to appreciate good aesthetic experiences? Just because I might > > have to pass by the world-famous violinist in the subway because I > > need to get to work on time in the morning? > > I suppose I'm lucky that I have a job that arriving 5 minutes late > isn't that big of a deal; and considering how many others stop and > watch musicians in NYC's subways, I'm guessing they can be a few > minutes late too. People take time for things they value, so if > Washingtonians decided to ignore Joshua Bell, then oh well, that's > their loss.
Maybe the DC Metro runs on a tighter schedule than the NYC subway -- I always have to allow plenty of time to make sure I arrive on time. A trip that under ideal circumstances takes 45 minutes I must allow an hour for, just in case there are delays. That means that very often, I'm not on a really tight schedule. This is often magnified during rush hour, because with more people in the system, there are more chances for things to go wrong. Maybe DC has solved that problem, so people are able to time their trips extremely closely, and never have any extra time because the train ran on a quick schedule. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
