Driving a bus in a small town is worlds apart from big city transit, from whence I came. This morning I was tracking down a new address off of 4000 S and I came to a couple of small dirt roads heading South. I was looking for S 700 W but since neither road had a street sign I was a bit perplexed. I suspected the second one but wasn’t sure which and it may have been further on down 4000.
I spotted a woman in a hoody jogging towards me so I stopped at the second road and waited for her to reach my bus. This was 08:00 in Teton Valley and I had nobody coming for as far as I could see. I rolled the window down and before I could say anything she said “Hi Jim! It was Lisa from Head Start (not Jake from State Farm). I hadn’t recognized her because of the hoody.
I asked her if this was 700 and she said “I live on 600 so this must be 700“. I followed her assumption and successfully picked up a short version of Katniss Everdeen and took her to today’s Halloween party at the Community School.
This just wouldn’t have happened in the sprawling concrete jungle of King County, WA.
I also should have checked the map before I headed out :-) Click image for map…