Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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So today I got on the bus like usual but when I went to put the token in the token-collector-thingy, the bus driver put his hand over it and looked at me and said something but I couldn't hear him. So I took off my headphones and said, "sorry?" to which he replied something else in a low voice- he kept mumbling things and smiling and all I got was "are you taking this bus, do you want to take another bus, where are you going, no, no." I feel like this would be an entirely different situation if he didn't speak english fluently, but he did. So I kind of just stood there in the front of the bus, awkwardly, trying to understand what he was saying to me. I said a couple of times, "what? I'm going to 7th. This goes to 7th right? I don't understand what you are saying." Finally a guy behind me said, "he's trying to tell you that it's broken." Oh. OK. Well maybe he could've said, "it's broken"at a generally audible volume. That would've helped, just a bit. He just laughed after that, and I sort of felt like an idiot. Then, when I got off, I said "thank you," and he just laughed. Very strange. But hey, I got a free bus ride!
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