Buses rock!

As long as your not driving it that is...

One brisk fall day while aboard the #6 going to work a guy starts asking around for some change.

Guy: "An' buddy hapn' ta' ha' change fo' a ten?" (Translation: "Any buddy happen to have change for a ten [dollar bill]?")

After trying his best we all were in for a surprise when the bus turned left on a do not turn ever sign from Hennepin Ave S.
onto Franklin Ave going east.

Bus driver: "In all my ten years as a bus driver... I never. I never have gone the wrong way."

For some reason he thinks he went the wrong way before he actually turned the wrong way... here we all are thinking he's gone crazy and highjacked the bus.

Everyone at this point is wondering aloud: "Where is the bus going?" "Were we suppose to turn there?" "Can you drop me off at that liquor store?" Because we were going a new way it was worth a shot, right?!

Bus driver: "You really got me going' guy! That messed up the whole schedule because of you!"

Trying to blame this guy for making him turn the wrong way, which was not an earlier wrong way turn but a wrong way turn that was only wrong, for he turned on what we all knew was the wrong way.

The bus driver has what he thinks in an enlightenment and decides to turn the bus around in the middle of the narrow four lane road. So, here we are backing into a narrow one-way with traffic coming from both directions on the cross street. Then we re-back in and pull out a few more times as people are honking, the gears are grinding as we do a hairpin turn up a hill and peeps must be thinking they don't have to move, and then finally say to themselves: "Oh, maybe I should move, yup."

After we turn back on route a block away and 5 minutes later I realize what the bus driver thought he overheard the guy asking for change say: "Hey, buddy you missed the change for Hennepin!"

Having never realized that the guy was merely asking for change, and the guy seeing no point in trying to correct the matter with the bus driver, an elderly woman turns to the guy and offers him change.