I have a similar experience yesterday, with buses. I was heading out from Northgate to Redmond for a book reading by Kat Richardson (sponsored by Foolscap), leaving at 12:30 and figuring to get there by 2 p.m. I thought I had missed my first bus when it went whizzing by before I got to the stop, but at the next stop (a block away), I saw a passenger was using the wheelchair ramp. I ran and actually caught the bus (even though I had to wait for the light to change)!
I made it downtown in time to walk the two blocks over to the next bus stop and waited . . . and waited. I saw the bus come . . . and go, without stopping. But it said "Seattle" where it should have said "Redmond", so I continued to wait. After fifteen minutes, I finally gave up, assuming that the bus that had gone by was the bus I was supposed to have taken and headed back to catch a bus home. Just after I passed the point of being able to run back to catch the Redmond bus, it turned the corner and headed for the bus stop where I had been waiting.
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Date: 2010-08-22 04:11 pm (UTC)I made it downtown in time to walk the two blocks over to the next bus stop and waited . . . and waited. I saw the bus come . . . and go, without stopping. But it said "Seattle" where it should have said "Redmond", so I continued to wait. After fifteen minutes, I finally gave up, assuming that the bus that had gone by was the bus I was supposed to have taken and headed back to catch a bus home. Just after I passed the point of being able to run back to catch the Redmond bus, it turned the corner and headed for the bus stop where I had been waiting.
I just continued home.