I ride the bus to and from work. Many times, I get one of those special seats up front reserved for old folks , but this particular day, I couldn't even get up the steps into the bus, it was sooo crowded. The kid in front of me, who also could not get in, turned and said...Atras... and we hustled to the back door and pushed in there. IN !!! My first thought was, we didn't pay or swipe our bus passes ( yes, I have my very own bus pass). No worries. Others had been here before. The kid in front of me simply took my card from my little hand and passed it with his to the guy in front of him, and he to the guy in front of him, and so on and so on until it got to the front, someone up there swiped our cards, and they traveled back to us, right down the line...like clockwork through probably 20 people standing in the aisle. I was thrilled. Not only do they do that with passes, they do it with cash. A few buses still take cash ( this being one of the few) so someone had a bill, probably 20 pesos, it got passed hand to hand, to the driver up front, and the change came back the same way. A bus ride is 11 pesos. Another wonderful thing you wouldn't get to experience if you were staying in a 5 star hotel. You would have hot water, of course, and a bed that did not squeak every time you moved, but you would not have this sweet bus experience. The end. 👊 Bam !
Pictures and descriptions of Pat Hertzler’s stays in Nicaragua as a Peace Corps volunteer and in Bulgaria and in Liberia as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer. She is now in Ecuador as a Peace Corps Volunteer until June, 2018. Beginning in Sept. 2023, Pat is serving in Queretaro, Mexico as a TEFL volunteer assigned to a University. This is not an authorized Peace Corps blog and any comments posted by anyone are the opinions only of the poster and not of the Peace Corps.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Charming story about bus etiquette here.
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