6. January 2009 by admin.

This story goes way back!  It is a true story!

One summer afternoon, a passenger paying his fare asked if it was safe to travel through the Tunnel.  They expressed serious concerns for their safety and told the driver that they could not swim should anything happen.  The driver said, don’t worry about it, for your protection your sit cushion can be used as a flotation device.  That seemed to settle the nerves of the concerned traveler.  The best part of the story is the next person (a regular rider) was surprised to hear this and didn’t know that the bus was equiped with such features. 

Certainly Transit Windsor is concerned about our safety but let me repeat, there are NO floatation devices or life preservers on the Tunnel Bus.

Sometimes people ask some wild questions when entering the Bus.  I close with this one:

 ”Does this Bus go to downtown Canada?” 

If you’re not familiar with Canadian geography, you can brush up on it on Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada. 

If you’re every in “downtown Canada” please let me know, perhaps we can have lunch at one of my favorite Lebanese restaurants.

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5. January 2009 by admin.

Happy New Year, gang!  We’re off to a great start for the year.  Today was the first day back after the holidays for most of us and we were greeted to a big ‘ol back up at the border this morning.  For some of our riders, the fun began before the bus ride itself.  With a new month, it’s time for a new bus pass.  Such a simple procedure to purchase a pass but it often takes so long with Transit Windsor.  Often times in the morning, there is only one person selling passes.   Since the month began with a holiday and it’s time for students to renew their semester passes, you get a big line up.  Fortunately, I thought about my new pass last week so that I could avoid that problem.  It’s not something that I always do, but I have been caught in big September line up!  So I guess I learned my lesson!

However, upon reaching US Customs this morning, after clearing we were all handed a “Number 1″ card.  It made me feel so great, that I told the officer receiving the card that I felt like a number 1 today.  What a great way to start off the year!  He looked at me like I was some kind of idiot — which I did to make the whole procedure look stupid.  Boy, I can’t wait for the new Homeland Security USA television show to begin tomorrow night!  Maybe we’ll see some of the ridiculous things that average citizens have to go through on a daily basis.  Well, thinking about it, maybe not!  More to come on Homeland Security USA tomorrow.

Happy New Year everyone!

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