Took a few vacation days while some of the fam visited. Nice to see them and bet they're happy to be out of our 110+ degree heat. I go to Georgia for a few days this week, so should enjoy lower temps but much higher humidity - valid arguments exist in favor of dry heat.
Got my new bus psss - no longer free, but at $260 a year, sure beats the cost of a parking permit (~$800 annually) plus the cost of fuel. They take $10 each pay and that makes it even better - the sum total of my involvement includes an annual trip to Parking & Transit services to renew the precious little piece of plastic.
The pass bears no magnetic strip and instructions on the back say to "tap" the card against the reader on the bus. When I boarded today, I tapped the side of the card on the top of the reader (orange rectangle in the image) and nothing happened. I re-tapped and the driver said, "No, you need to put it flat." I placed the card flat against the orange rectangle, the light turned green and the happy accept beep sounded. So, what about laying the card flat makes it a "tap"???
Admittedly, there exists an OCD part of me that possibly literally interprets operating instructions to excess; however, shouldn't instructions match the action to which they refer? Tap it means lay it flat? I don't get it.
To ease my tortured mind, tomorrow I will attempt a "flat tap" and see if it results in a successful boarding. Perhaps a slow deliberate laying of the card on the reader is unnecessary, that a quick, flat slap will produce the desired results.
Stay tuned.
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