bus stories

in the bus the other day, there were some kids who'd apparently never been in a bus before. they kept wondering what all the buttons were for. one of the kids' mother explained that if you pressed on the red one, the bus would stop. they seemed to take it very litteraly, for when i pressed the button, in the middle of a tunnel, one of the kids wondered why the bus didn't stop there and then ;)

this reminded me of Tahiti, where the bus was amazing in that anyplace was a bus stop. if you saw one coming down the road, you simply waved it to a stop. and if you wanted to get off somewhere, it would stop just after you'd pressed the button. it was a great system, if a bit chaotic...