29 December 2006

#4141

Couple of bus tales today. For openers, Dave's daughter, Sarah, visiting from Kansas City on her way to Seattle, accompanied him to school. She supports public transportation and wanted to experience Valley Metro's finest, the 6am66. Dave sat in his usual back bench seat location and noted that a loose panel behind the seat exposed the motor compartment, filling the BTA with fumes and noise. In his best "Tim the Tool Man" mode, Dave resourcefully stuffed two bus route schedule books between the seat and the panel - problem abated. After his efforts, Dana, our dear regular driver, gave Dave a towelette to clean the bus grime from his hands. Images today are the book wedges and Dave's hands and dirty wiper, taken with my phone camera. The quality suffers, but the event was not lost.

Sadly, coat guy did not make an appearance and I missed my last opportunity to go tactile and test the faux vs. leather of his jacket. Wish there had been more time with coat guy - so many questions. For example, those coats are quite bulky and I keep trying to picture the closet where those bad boys are housed. It has to be exceptionally large to accommodate the 26+ coats. Perhaps he turned an entire bedroom into a hanging shrine of sorts? No end to the speculative possibilities coat guy enabled - not to mention the game. Sigh . . .

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Egress (Ingress?) of obnoxious vapours from the engine space into the passenger compartment would be a huge "no no" in the UK...

Most of our buses are now rear engined, which also allows an ultra-low-floor construction ("friendly" to wheelchairs and baby buggies etc) - the buses can literally "bow" at bus stops to floor level and a ramp can be flapped over to allow entrance by virtually anybody except a Labour MP (total and complete spastic)

Anonymous said...

mfebber...(after all this time can I call you m...?)...Happy New Year from an impoverished, over-employed, underpaid brit admirer...

Unknown said...

And a very happy new year to you . . . can't believe I'm three months into my second year of bus blogging - do enjoy the dialogue it has produced. Please feel free to call me "m" - not to be confused with "M" of James Bond fame. Here's wishing us all the best for 2007.