Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
From San Francisco: "Bus Report #668," by Rachel
It was spectacularly foggy this morning - grey and thick, the kind of fog that feels like a blanket set down over the city.
I waited by myself down on Fillmore and Geary and watched the sky turn from grey to moss green.
Right on schedule, my favorite driver, dark glasses and white teeth and sharp cap, drove up and stopped right in front of me. I climbed on board.
(Read more here.)
Sunday, February 12, 2012
From Springfiled, Massachusetts: "Valentine's Day story of love at first sight," by Tom Shea for The Republican on MassLive.com
It was springtime, 1980, the afternoon hinting at the coming summer vacation. An overcrowded school bus from Springfield’s former Technical High School took a right off State Street to Main and pulled up in front of what back then was called the Civic Center.
Orlando Santiago was on the bus, standing, squished, bumping into the guy in front of him every time the vehicle accelerated, and the guy behind him when the bus braked.
Out of habit, he checked the bus stop sprawl. “People everywhere,” Orlando recalls. “No chance anyone getting on our bus.” Then Orlando saw her. She was inching her way toward the bus.
(Read more here.)
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