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Broken Trolley Tracks and Cell Phones / Dec 11, 02:46 PM
Last week the trolley on Woodland wasn’t running between 58th and some other street farther west. So instead everyone riding west had to get off at 58th and get on a bus that would take them to the next stop where the trolley was working. On Monday I went straight from my morning site to Cornerstone, so I walked down Woodland on the part where the trolley wasn’t running. I walked past a bus stop where a few women got off and were complaining that the bus was really crowded and a woman almost fell off. I’m not sure how a woman almost fell off the bus while it was moving and the doors were closed, but that’s what happened. So I walked some more and caught up with an elderly lady walking in the same direction. She asked me if there was a phone farther along and I said I wasn’t sure. She then asked how far I was going and said she would walk with me. We walked along the sidewalk until it was torn up because of construction and then we walked in the bike lane a little. We talked about the trolley and bus service and that she was going to find a phone to call her husband so she wouldn’t have to walk all the way home. When we got to the corner she asked about a phone again and since I didn’t know where to tell her to go I offered my cell phone. I dialed for her and she talked to her husband. After she hung up we talked a little while longer. She told me about her kids and the kids of the woman she worked for when she was younger. Between the two of them they had 8 kids. She asked if I went to college and what I was doing now. I said goodbye and walked to Cornerstone and she stayed to wait for a ride. It may not sound like much of a story but it made my day. I was so glad that someone on the street just started talking to me and walked with me.
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