Mildred, the Church Lady

Mildred, the Church Lady, from Minnetonka took the bus every day to connect to the 12 going downtown, to go to Mass at St Olaf’s. One day she wasn’t there. Then a week weny by. I got worried, she usually never missed a day, much less a whole week. I called the local police to do a welfare check on her. Continue reading ‘Mildred, the Church Lady’


Door-to-Door Service

Paul is a busdriver for Rochester City Lines, who has become a friend over the years. I first met Paul when he drove the last bus that left from the college, and arrived downtown at the transfer station around 10 p.m. My house was still quite aways from downtown, but I could easily walk to Rochester Methodist Hospital, and take a shuttle bus that drove by my house. Not being a clinic employee, I should not have been allowed to ride the shuttle bus, but what did the bus driver know? I was geting to be a regular. Continue reading ‘Door-to-Door Service’