Procrastinator reporters shadowed second year BHSc student Selena Saratov as she makes her stand against the HSR– a rookie mistake. As the sun neared its zenith, Ms. Saratov made her way to the bus stop at Whitney and Emerson for her 12:30 anatomy lab.
12:10 pm— The bus seemed to be running a tad late. “I’m committed to taking the bus!” Ms Saratov comments: “The HSR’s not gonna make me walk today.”
12:30 pm—Lab had now begun for Ms. Saratov. “I’m so pissed. They think that they can just screw me over again – but we’ll see who holds out the longest,” she garbles out– having lost sensation in her face from cold.
7:00 pm— Saratov, now seething with anger and dismay that the bus had yet to come, refused to leave the bus stop out of pure spite. “I can’t let the bus win. I can’t let it win,” she repeats, in a trance-like state. Saratov could not answer her phone anymore to answer calls from worried housemates– her arms could no longer move. Ms. Saratov’s battle against the HSR has her friends and family worried. “We just want to see our daughter,” says her mother.
2 days later — Ms. Saratov was by now frozen to the ground in fetal position, basic bodily functions slowed. Saratov comments: “It’s been so long… so long I can no longer remember the faces of my family.” Saratov later reports no memory of events following. A fellow commuter soon finds her and calls 911. The bus arrives moments before the ambulance.
Saratov’s perseverance and bravery will be remembered by all. Many can empathize with her struggle, having waited for a bus that never arrived. When asked if she would do it again, she replies, “No. The bus… you can’t fight it. You can’t win. My will has been broken. Accept it. All hail the bus. All hail the HSR.”
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