The other morning, I pulled into the drive through at one of Lansing’s Burger Kings to order a breakfast sandwich. As I was waiting for my food, I noticed that there was a city bus behind me also waiting for food.
I thought this to be rather unusual and a bit out of place. I was surprised that the bus was able to negotiate the tight turns required by the drive up window. And I was also surprised that a city bus driver would break from his route to grab some food.
But more than that, I had to wonder if there were people on the bus. And if there were, did they order food also?
I had to wonder if this was a regular stop on the bus line. I could envision a bus schedule where the number 14 bus stops at Burger King every hour on the hour and at Micky Ds every hour on the half hour.
But more to the point, does the city know that one of its transit worker is stopping at a Burger King with a city bus?
One morning while going to work, I saw a TRAIN stop just before the crossing. The engineer got out with his thermos and went across the street to the WaWA(a local convenience store). I couldn’t believe my eyes. I told Ted and on occassion, he too saw the train parked on the tracks across from the WaWa. He did not know the engineer went into the store to get his coffee and maybe a sandwich. We would chuckle each time we saw the train parked there or saw the engineer coming or going from the train to the store. This brings a whole new meaning to convenience store.