[PRCo] Re: DustyNation Signs

[Joshua Dunfield]

Jim Holland wrote:
> Working Run_153_/_30 in the late 1980s - Flyer Trolley Coach.     We get 
> into Chinatown and Asian man says:     """Your Sign said 
> 15-Kearny~!~!~!"""     Share Kearny Street with 15 Dieseaseal bus for 
> 3-blocks then diverge.       Flyer TCs had Only Trolley Destinations  
> (for obvious reasons)  so I didn't have such a sign.      Refuted what 
> he said and he says that I Changed The Signs and calls me a Liar.  I 
> rolled the sign so he could see that 15 doesn't exist but he just 
> stooooood there scowling with his hands behind his back.       
> *_Normally_*  Asians are quite good about such incidents, but this man 
> was an exception.     He probably saw my Run_#  And  Then  Only  Saw  
> What  He  Wanted  To  Saw~!~!~!

Back when I was actively trying to ride every PAT route, I ended up somewhere
around Holiday Park waiting for an HP.  It was a stop for both the HP and the
67A; I'd "checked off" the 67A long before and one wasn't scheduled for a while
anyway.

A bus shows up with a blank sign.  I figure it's probably either an HP or not
in service, and if it's not in service it won't stop no matter what I do, so I
hold out my arm like it's my bus.  Driver stops and opens the door, and I ask if
it's an HP.  "What does the sign say?"  I tell him it doesn't say anything.
Driver is clearly skeptical, but gets out of the bus, looks at the blank sign,
and swears.  He had no idea the sign was busted -- sign controls were working
but the sign wasn't.

So, once in a great while, drivers *are* wrong about their signs.  Neither
of us called the other a liar, though!

-j.