I must confess that I have an irrational fear of riding city buses, which makes me a terrible hypocrite when I blithely tell my kids that they can get where they need to go because we're right near a bus stop and "it's not that complicated
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I've found, though, that if you ask the bus driver, they're usually really good at helping clueless people like me navigate. I just give them big puppy eyes and tell them I'm hopelessly lost and they take pity. :)
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I think I can manage the Lots of People in a Box part okay, as long as there's not so many of them I literally can't get off...
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When I moved to NYC, I didn't have a car, so I had to learn to get around via subway and bus and train. The biggest problem I had on the bus was knowing when my stop was coming up so I could signal the bus driver. More than once, I pressed the "next stop" button too early, bringing the bus to a halt at the wrong stop. Then I had to choose between getting off and walking the rest of the way, or staying on and pretending to look around for the idiot who had asked the bus to stop but wasn't getting off. Even after I had ridden the bus for long enough to have learned the route, I was always happiest when other people pressed the stop button so I wouldn't have to.
But if there's no particular place you're trying to get to by a certain time, and you know the area well enough to stay out of the scarier neighborhoods, exploring via the bus is fun. : )
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... I'm not helping, am I? YOU CAN DO IT YOU CAN DO IT! Also, a giant inflatable raft could so work.
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Isn't it weird when old kid stuff you thought didn't matter anymore pops up and says "Oh, btw, I'm still down in here being wigged out at that"?
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I can see it could be unnerving or scary in some lights . . . but for me, it was glorious freedom.
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