Take this, it’s free
I, as a driver found a “stored value” card with $8 bucks left on it after checking the bus after an a.m. express run. Because I usually have the same bus every day, I keep L & F items on board for a week or so, then if not claimed, it gets turned in. No one asked about the bus card. I’d forgotten all about it.
I found it in a jacket pocket a couple months later. I was living near Snelling and University at the time. I didn’t want to toss an $8 card, so, on the way to work one day, I stopped at the 21/84 stop in front of the Applebee’s in the Spruce Tree Bldg, rolled the passenger window down, and offered the card to the first person to grab it…No one would take it. I guess they thought I was trying to “sell” it. Not uncommon practice in that area I guess. I had a valid bus card, and no one wanted it!
Apr 27th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I used to get the stored value cards as well. If someone asked me for money for the bus I would just give them one of those.