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I was waiting for the bus this morning and an out of service bus pulls up to me and asked where I was going and offered to drive me to work! and didn’t make me use my bus ticket!
—Greatful
This article appears in Jun 18-24, 2009.
7 Comments
yea,it’s because you’re got titties,bet if you were a man,he’ll pass ya by……
I was just about to make the exact same comment halifaxmentor!
Yeah, the OP must be fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
I was about to argue that chivalry is not dead, but.. then I realized that I wouldn’t have taken a free ride from an OOS bus. That’s just past the fine grey line of weird.
I had a driver of an oos bus pull over and offer anyone a ride over the bridge about 6 of us climbed on with no fare
No fare because if they charged you a fare it would show that they let passengers on an OOS bus and I’m pretty sure that’s a big MT no no.
I’ve had an OOS bus do the same thing though, unrefined. It was nice cause I didn’t miss the 51 and got to leave work 30 minutes early for getting there 30 minutes early (and not waiting 30 minutes at the bridge terminal for the transfer I *just* would’ve missed).
There’s nothing that says we can’t take passengers on an OOS bus, or (not) charge fare for doing so. We just can’t deviate from our OOS route to do the dropoffs so pickups are rare.