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...towing incident at Currier is not Freeman's firs mishap on the job. Once, he recalls, his battery dies in front of Lamont. The substitute at the garage drove over a new bus while passengers waited or walked home in the rain. And one snowy January night. Freeman skidded and smashed the bus into a parked car. But there were no problems. "Harvard's insured up to the teeth with these things," he says, patting the dashboard...
Most of the faces a shuttle driver comes to recognize belong to Harvard students. University policy stipulates that only Harvard affiliates may use the service. But drivers rarely bother to check I D cards "God, you get so many flakes on this bus," Says Freeman. "I think it's because it's Cambridge." One regular is an elderly woman who sometimes engages the drivers in lengthy conversations. "She's really nice. She stays for an hour an hour and a half sometimes. But when you go four blocks out of your way to take her home, you feel like...
...Freeman recognizes a few other regulars. "This guy gets on the bus every night at midnight." Freeman says as a tall man with a tweed coat and glasses boards the bus near Hilles. "He must be the librarian or something...
...four hours of driving Freeman makes about four round trips from the Quad, stopping for ten minute breaks each hour. Around 11:30, he takes a longer break of 25 minutes, when he grabs a bite to eat and watches some T.V. or reads. "The job goes by really quickly. Of the four hours, over an hour is break, and on my last run I make it a point to be five minutes early so I can watch David Letterman at Currier...
...Freeman nears the end of his final circuit of the night. Having wound through the tortuous Cambridge Streets--from Currier to the Science Center to Lamont to the IAB to Mather House and to Peabody Terrace--he turns another corner and stops at another stop sign. "Sometimes," he says. "I stop and think if I had driven in a straight line I could have gone so far. I could have really gone somewhere...