It was May 29, 2009, the first day that I used Triangle Transit's bus. For some reason I was nervous in the morning on the way to the bus stop. I don't know why. I felt just not comfortable. Probably I had looked at Triangle Transit's website more than five times the night before. At 7:58 AM, the bus came. The bus door opened. I walked up. There was a card swiper/cash machine in front of me. In a second, my brain went everywhere – where do I insert cash? Of course everything was off the plan. A one-dollar bill didn't go in. The bus driver just looked at me. I looked up at her and she finally helped me. I am sure it was just less than 30 seconds but it felt like 30 minutes.

Hew~ everything was all right then. As the bus approached where I was supposed to get off, I began to look for the signal. There was no sign. But I remembered a city bus in Chicago (not sure actually if it was Chicago or Atlanta) which had a touch bar to signal a stop request to the driver. 'All right! Here it is!' I found a black strip. I pushed softly. Huh? It didn't work. OK, I pushed real hard. No sound. I looked around to ask people but no one looked at me. The bus had passed my bus stop while I was trying to find the signal. This was very embarrassing. I walked up to the driver and asked. It turned out that I was pressing window strip. Hahaha....She pointed out another black strip ABOVE the window. (Triangle Transit should put a sign in old buses. New buses with a green pull wire have a sign but not the old ones.) Because it passed the bus stop, I had to stay in the bus for another 15-20 minutes to come back from downtown. Well, at least I learned and could get to the office. What a start!