My ride to soccer game by public transport It should not have been something unusual yesterday except the extremely snowy weather and new people who I was supposed to play soccer (football) with. I left home at around 12pm and when I was walking to my car I saw two cars slipping and trying to get out of this wet snow. When I approached my car I realized that I might have some troubles leaving my parking spot. While cleaning the snow off the car I’ve seen another car slipping on the part of the road that I was supposed to ride and the same time there was a bus driving by the bus stop. Two those facts were reason enough for me not to go by car and I rushed to the station to catch the bus. My little journey was quite interesting. In the photo #1 you can see how interior of ordinary bus in Kaluga looks like and how a man who works in a net grocery store likes to wear the same color [red] as the store decorates most part of its facade and signboards inside the store. Maybe it was just a coincidence. In the photo #2 you can see my 100rub bill change that I got after paying for the ride. I absolutely don’t like to carry that many coins because it's kind of weighty, you can buy almost nothing using it and I prefer to pay with credit card. By the way, one way ride (no matter how long the distance is within the route) costs 16 rubbles or $0.27 or €0.25 in Kaluga. In the photo #3 there's another passenger who was in the same bus with me when I drove back home. It’s behavior didn’t seem exemplary to me but at least it didn’t leave it’s parents’ glove while it was looking at everybody as at a mouse or something suitable to eat. I’m wondering whether that impudent owl paid for it’s ride or not? Choosing public transportation that day was certainly a right decision because when I got back home cars were still slipping in the area around the building where I live. However this move was just a matter of risk reduction and it hasn't changed my mostly negative towards the quality of our public transportation. If our busses were more comfortable and could accept credit cards, I would probably use them more often, but so far I’m choosing a car.