Still Not There Yet...

Back when I was actually updating this blog regularly (or at least semi-regularly), I posted about my short, 'Not There Yet' here. It's one of my favourite shorts and had made it to YouTube at the time. It was the subject of the first email I got through this blog. Well... I got another to let me know that it has been doing the rounds on some websites and getting a great response.

And, yes, isn't our transport system absolute pox? Every other city had an underground over 100 years ago and we're still standing at bus stops in the lashing rain watching buses go by full, or because the driver can't be arsed to stop and then get ripped off by the high prices and the fact that they have outlawed change (which I still think can't possibly be legal). And the train? Ker-ist. Forget about it. Unless you love being squashed up against some sweaty man who may or may not have a hideous contagious disease.

And I didn't even touch on taxis.

I feel the need to point out that 'Not There Yet' was made back in 2004, pre-Luas and pre-Port Tunnel. Of course, both were long due to be in operation by then but, hey, that's Ireland for you. But I think I got it mostly right. I'm actually stunned we've gone this long without a bunch of Luas-related deaths.

I can't help feeling I should be making a sequel to this. Anyway, glad it's getting passed around, especially to anyone who has endured the hell that is Dublin city. If you know someone who has been through that and survived, feel free to show it to them. So, from YouTube, once more here's 'Not There Yet' (for a larger version, click on it to bring you directly to YouTube):