Dear MBTA, I'm Not Sure That's What You Meant to Say

[gnomi]

I got the following transit alert this morning:

Route 66 experiencing 15-20 min delays due to passenger assistance.

To quote Casey McCall, "We got all kinds of sentence construction here."

Comments

[nojojojo.livejournal.com]

"Get your kicks by making people late on Route 66"?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I interpret that as analogous to the time my bus was half an hour late because the driver didn't know how the wheelchair lift worked.

[cafemusique.livejournal.com]

Was "fun" to watch somebody getting on the bus in his powered wheelchair yesterday. There was the usual re-arrangement of seating to accomodate this (a little more than usual, because there were two wheelchair users boarding)...but then a wait because one guy either had a temperamental "gas" on the wheelchair or just didn't know how to maneuver it in tight spaces, because he was speeding backwards into obstacles and having a horrible time negotiating the turn at the farebox.

He actually got on to my return trip later in the day. On that one, the driver had to turn away because he couldn't stifle his laughter at the guy's driving performance in the wheelchair.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Poor guy. New wheelchair, perhaps...

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Route 66 experiencing 15-20 min delays due to passenger assistance.

But haven't you had that experience? They were TRYING to be so HELPFUL, those passengers! >:-)

(And some kind of help is the kind of help we all can do without.)

[half-double.livejournal.com]

I hate when people try to help. They don't help.