Dear Little Old Lady,

This afternoon when I was very tired and I got onto the bus after the train to go home, you were in the line to get onto said bus in front of me with your friend. Both of you are probably considered to be senior citizens and you both had the paper bus passes to put into the ticket machine to verify that you had, in fact, paid for your transfers.

Your friend's ticket was fine, your's however had expired and you continued to walk towards a seat anyways. The bus driver called you back to tell you that your ticket was no good and that you would have to pay again, he had checked the time stamp on your transfer and it had expired over an hour ago. You just smiled and waved to him, shaking your head before you sat down.

A man in front of you was trying to explain it to you and you spoke to him as if he was an annoying pest. The bus driver told the man to explain to you that you needed to pay, but the man just shook his head and said that you were speaking Korean and that he spoke Chinese and therefore could not successfully communicate with you.

The woman sitting next to this man who had tried to explain that you needed to pay for another transfer went up to the bus driver with some change and offered to pay for your transfer for you and the bus driver thanked the woman, but declined her offer. According to him, and he had been driving that particular bus that starts off at the station at 3:20pm, that you had been coming onto the bus every single day for the last two weeks with an expired transfer.

He said very loudly that you were lucky this time and that the next time he was going to get nasty and call the transit cops on you.

You got off a few stops later and gave the bus driver this huge smile as if he had done some great favour for you and you were on your way with your half a dozen grocery bags.

If you had enough money to buy junk food (white translucent bags showed off your collection of cans of Pringles and plastic tubs of candy) you obviously could afford to pay less than $3 so you wouldn't have to walk the 4 blocks that you took the bus for.