Good one Angel.  A similar incident happened to me once. So I decided just 
to say, I use various stops on this route.  This time I want such and such. 
You probably do that now too.

Vicki




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] don't you just hate it?


> I'll tell you a story that happened to me.  This is true as well.  I catch 
> the 39 bus going from down town to my house all the time from the 
> different job locations from which I work.  I go to other places as well 
> from my house and from other points using this same bus.  I was boarding 
> the 39 down town on an extremely cold cold day it was too.  I began to 
> tell the driver where I wanted off.  He stopped me mid sentence and said 
> "don't worry sugar, I know where you want off."  I thought he sort of did. 
> I sat down and waited for my stop to be called.  After a longer time than 
> I thought necessary, he said "here is your stop."  When I got off I 
> noticed the traffic was heavier than it usually was at my stop.  I asked 
> someone some 20 or so minutes later when someone came along where I was. 
> She said I was a long way from the stop from which I wanted off.  He had 
> taken me to the stop on which my bank was located.  Apparently, he had let 
> me off at the bank before, and as we blind only go to one place when 
> taking busses, Ha Ha, he probably supposed I wanted off at that stop.  I 
> had to cross the street and get the bus returning the other way to get off 
> at my stop.  The moral of the story is never trust a driver who calls you 
> sugar.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: don't you just hate it?
>
>
>> Jenifer,
>> There are some days it doesn't bother me and then there are other times 
>> when I just hate being blind.  It makes one wonder what these drivers 
>> think about when we tell them what stop we want off.
>> Anyway I am glad someone drove you back to your stop.
>> Virgie and Hoshi
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jenifer Gilley" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 6:13 PM
>> Subject: don't you just hate it?
>>
>>
>>> hi all!  don't you just hate being blind sometimes?
>>>
>>> this afternoon when i got on the bus going home from work, i told the 
>>> driver where i wanted off... i got up to go the front of the bus after 
>>> someone i know who's stop is right before mine got off.  the driver 
>>> repeated my stop... aking me if that's where i wanted... i said yes.. 
>>> star kind of poked her head around the corner and started moving down 
>>> the steps... and the guy didn't stop!  i went passed my stop!  he 
>>> offered to go back and drop me off but by this point i was ticked!  i 
>>> just told him to let me off... and someone who i don't know drove me 
>>> back to my stop! do these drivers ever know what they're doing!
>>> Jenifer gilley
>>> CHRIST came that we may have life everlasting.
>>> check out my blog
>>> http://claudastar.blogspot.com/
>>> AIM: jenibear1998
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