A Country Boy Comes to the City

Being from a rural community, I had a few more adventures in the city than some others would have. I used up the first week trying to figure out how buses work. My roommate also had never taken a ride on a city bus either, so both of us were uncertain of ourselves and confused.

We looked at a bus map, but it looked to us as though it was showing another city in a foreign country. After some discussion we were confident that we knew what bus would take us to the mall. The bus stop was just out front of our residence, so we were confident we could be successful.

No mall appeared. Then the driver informed us that this was indeed the correct bus, but that to catch it going the opposite direction we would have had to stand on the other side of the road. Later, we learned that if you want the bus to stop, there's a cord that you have to pull if no-one else has. So we did eventually make it to the mall and back. On the same day.