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...Things like this usually don' happen on the job." Freeman explains hall an hour later as he finally pulls away from the curb. After a considerable commotion, he has escaped with towing charge and a five dollar ticket for blocking an entrance. It has been the most exciting night in the four months Freeman has been driving the shuttle...
...Freeman began the night at 8:45, when he caught a shuttle for the garage, which lies across the river, beyond Harvard Stadium. In a bare cinder block office, he asked Number 67, it seems has as much as any driver could ask for a sound engine and, more important, a working radio. But 67 was already taken so Freeman scuttled for number 32, took the keys, and headed for Lamont...
...long, though before be regrets his decision. The radio begins to lade and Freeman fiddles with the broken knobs on the dashboard. I always forget that 30 has the bum radio, he says. The radio is an important part of the job. The steady beat of WBOS or WBCN relieves the tedium and makes driving almost automatic. When I'm driving in heavy traffic I listen to classical music because it get's really tense behind the wheel." Freeman says I'm from California where the people are a lot more laid back. When you drive around here at rush...
When he first started the job. Freeman was stuck driving Friday afternoons, the least popular shut-but as he gained seniority, he moved to other spots. "The most popular run for drivers is the Currier to Business School route," he says. "That's like a morgue it's se quiet. No one wants to go From the Quad to the Business School...
...Freeman would just as soon deal with the Eassles of a crowded bus, "I like people," he says " I enjoy watching them. You really-don't get to know anyone on this job, but you get to know the faces...