Cheetos in the a.m.
I had been a regular using the 460 to and from downtown Minneapolis for a couple of years. I had no previous bus experience and there were many days of annoying behaviors from my fellow passengers. I never got used to stupid, Jack-holes, that insist on believing everyone is interested in their loud cell phone conversation. I wanted to smack each of them every time, but, decided listening to my music and reading were better uses of time, since the perpetrators were never going to change! Continue reading ‘Cheetos in the a.m.’
Man say “BAM!”
I don’t know if the LRT falls under the jurisdiction of Bus Tales (and if not, maybe it’s time for a Rail Tales companion site?), but my wife hears the best conversation on the Hiawatha line. She told me this bit of dialogue between two young men a while back, but it’s still stuck in my head: Continue reading ‘Man say “BAM!”’
Freezie debate
As many of you may know, it’s against the rules to bring food on the bus. I usually don’t enforce this, unless someone tries to bring something extremely messy on. I pulled up to a stop in Richfield, and a kid, probably in highschool, was waiting with an already-opened freezie Continue reading ‘Freezie debate’
Here to straighten you out
Back in the days of Snelling Garage, I was in the drivers’ room when two of Metro Transit’s police came in and started using the phone. I listened for a bit and got curious enough to ask questions when they were done. It seems two youths of about fourteen years of age were riding the 54 to the Mall of America and having some fun trashing the bus. They had some foodstuffs that they were flinging about. An adult male told them to knock it off. Continue reading ‘Here to straighten you out’
