Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to wear white uniforms, like nurse's uniforms. Some people decided to stop me on the street and ask for help one time. Now we have these shirts." She looked down at her heavy, green Harvard University Dining Services polo, and shook her head. "They're all right in the winter but not so great right now." It was a warm, humid afternoon. "You sweat. There's no way you could wear make-up in here. And back then when I started, we didn't use IDs. There was a board with kids' names on it. It was huge...
...Today, like every day, a woman and her toddler girl board me at the stop just past The Plough and the Stars. Today, like every day, all of the other passengers smile and coo as the pair finds a seat. The woman is pretty--fine-featured and petite; the daughter she carries mirrors her. I'm rolling along, enjoying this joyful maternal scene as much as the passengers, when they hit me: the shoes. The little girl wears pink suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their...
...stumbles onto me at the 02139 post office, across from Cambridge City Hall; portions of his face and body are scraped and oozing, and his clothes are torn. Slurring his words, the new passenger says he just fell off his bike and asks to be taken the additional stop to the heart ofCentral Square. As he lunges into the front seat, the other riders recoil; one finally puts out a hand to keep him from falling off his seat. Despite the driver's offering to call help or take him to a hospital, the injured man insists on Central Square...
...Could I be crammed any fuller? Friday night pickup at the Newbury Street stop is always rough, but tonight I can barely breathe. A female mass of passengers announce that they are from Northeastern University. They're headed to an Angry Salad concert at the Middle East. "What is Angry Salad?" a bystander asks. "Think Counting Crows meets Goo Goo Dolls," one replies. They turn their attention to a man wearing black tie and carrying grocery bags. They prod him, poke him and question him. I change lanes suddenly and the girls fall onto an entertwined high school couple...
...Four teenish girls board at the Johnston Gate stop. They're drowning in A&F and Ann Taylor shopping bags. They sit in front and speak in faux-British accents. They talk of Boston and the Square, at a volume sufficient to drown out most of my other conversations. Finally, the driver surrenders; "What brings you to Boston?" he asks. The blonde begins to detail their vacation. The loudest of the four, a bandanna tied around her short dark curls, turns to a third and exclaims, "OOOOOH, YES! We have engaged the bus in conversation!" Hmph. Actually, I didn...