Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Bus stop!
So, that's how you request a stop on the Metrobus. You say clearly, "bus stop!" I feel that this is worth sharing because I only realized that, oh, maybe four weeks ago and I've been taking the bus regularly now for, oh, seven months or so. I'm used to buses in other cities where you push the button, pull the cord, even touch the magnetic strip to discreetly, perhaps passively, indicate a stop request. Nope. In that absence, I've sheepishly made my way to the front of the bus and shyly asked the driver for the next stop. But then, out of nowhere a few weeks ago, it was everyone around me: "Bus stop!" "Bus stop!" I thought, "How have I not known this before?!" And of course almost every bus has a stop-indicator button -- never you mind that because you know it doesn't work and even if it did, that's not how things are done! Things are done with "Bus stop!"...and now you know too!
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Now that is truly useful information!!! You need to put together a nice glossy booklet and either get the City of JHB to pay you to hand them out to commuters free, or charge for them... cos I'm sure there are people who'd pay to know these quirky things too (Using the Tswane Metro busses, the occasional time that I did use them, I had the same freaking conundrum and would also saunter to the front!0)
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