When one rents a car, there is this walk-around-dance one performs to make certain that any dings or injuries to the car are noted on the contract, and then one steps into the driver’s seat and closes the door. Yesterday the shift-change-busdriver did a ‘rental’ inspection of the bus he was about to take command …
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The Streetcars
Realizing that I have not mentioned the streetcars in Portland, I attempted to photograph a couple today, while driving. By this blank page, you may surmise I was not successful. What I wanted you to see is how “Vienna”, old-world-movie these ‘people movers’ make the city streets look. The streetcars, hooked together, glide on their …
Identified
We three were waiting for the bus. Them a middle-aged nice looking couple, seemingly content – she was chatting away to him, her back to me and I couldn’t hear them because I was listening to a script with earphones. A few minutes passed and she turned to me. I could read her lips: Do …
Pushy
She is small, but not frail. Gray, frizzy hair. Could be 68-78. No telling. And she is pushing, shoving, wheeling, manipulating in front of her a walker. She has no sooner boarded the bus than she yells out,’ May I have that seat please’. She takes a moment to put her fare card in the …
Great news!
This is another one of those ‘great news!’ but I really don’t know details, and neither does anyone else working for the MTA. At least not anyone I asked. To purchase a ride-the-bus-card, one usually goes underground to the Metrocard vending machines . Once you locate them, and understand that they are always at the …
Freedom
This evening, at dusk, the MTA bus was working its way south on 9th Avenue. As it approached a bus stop, I saw a few feet away from the stop on the corner was a policeman. As the bus came to a stop and I took a second glance, I saw the policeman had a …
More The Bus
And the bus drivers: I have heard Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Oprah announcing the next stops. And I have seen the doubles for Denzel, Whitney, and Roseanne Barr driving the busses. These persons are courteous, sane, competent and now and then especially humorous. One recent evening, I was dressed upper-west-side to attend a YCA …
The Bus
Why it’s great to ride the bus. #1. you can see where you’re going and where you want to get off. #2. it’s like a tourist ride for the price of the fare. #3. the plethora of persons that the bus gathers as it rolls along the streets. Every strata of life from the boisterous …
Good Deed
It wasn’t rainy, windy or dead of night, but it was a bus not stopping for the little old lady waiting at the bus stop, in the late dusk at 6:30 pm. So, from my seat at the window, I didn’t call out, I yelled, ‘Sir, there’s a lady that wants to board’. Having yelled …
What Do You Think?
She boarded the bus but I did not pay her attention except to notice she was well dressed and that she sat down behind me. A stop later the bus driver turned around in his chair and said ‘Miss, would you come here please’. He was looking right at me. I pointed to myself, ‘Me’ …