Bad-back woman
I’ll just paste the entire email I sent to customer service @ SW Transit this morning as my bus tale. Maybe I’m the one out of line, you decide. Continue reading ‘Bad-back woman’
Stroller logic puzzle
This happened when my daughter was about 2 and a half. We were taking the bus home, I forget from where, and the only seat was toward the back. So I folded up the stroller, stuck it under the seat, and put her on my lap. Getting off the side door of a bus with a stroller is a bit of a logic puzzle, and I decided the best and safest thing was to toss the stroller onto the sidewalk and then grab the toddler, rather than the other way around. Continue reading ‘Stroller logic puzzle’
Interview jitters?
One day while waiting to board the 16 eastbound on Nicollet and 4th, I noticed the guy waiting next to me looked awfully nervous. He kept shifting his weight from one foot to the other, and appeared to be concentrating hard. Occasionally he would clip open a briefcase, shuffle the papers inside as if to be sure he hadn’t forgotten anything important, and then clip it closed again. Continue reading ‘Interview jitters?’
Stop!
Some lady who is with her little girl all the time both have hair ratted-up like they just got outta bed. They were rideing the 6 line and the mother kept screaming at the kid. Yelling at the top of her lungs “stop!” to her child. The bus driver finally couldn’t take it no more and told her to be quiet because every time she screams “stop!” He thinks some one wants off the bus and ends up jamming on the brakes. The lady then took the bus drivers name and said she was going to report him. She didn’t like the idea of the bus driver being able to tell her she couldn’t scream at her child while riding the bus.
