One More Strike Horror Story
I know the strike is over and we’re sick of hearing about it, but I thought I’d share my co-worker- Lorraine’s – transit strike horror story with you.
Just to give you some background. One of the prestigious hospitals on the UES (we’ll call it Hospital #1) kindly allowed our hospital to take advantage or their bus services during the strike to get our staff to work and home. Last night, a few of our co-workers used that service and this is what happened.
Note: This letter has been submitted to Hospital #1, the hospital I work for and one of the local radio stations.
No one will ever be able to make up a story like what I’m about to write.
After work, a few of us made our way over to the Bus Service which was waiting at Hospital #1’s Main Entrance when we arrived at approximately 4pm on Thursday December 22, 2005. The bus left Hopital #1 around 4:05pm.
We proceeded uptown on 1st Avenue to the posted stops Hospital #1’s bus service normally stops at. We stopped at 86th Street and 2nd Avenue, but not one of the 55 passengers needed to get off the bus. With that, the driver proceeded to get off the bus, lock the door with the bus running, and went into the Sprint Store. At first, we all thought he needed to make a pit stop, due to nature calling, but were we WRONG! 5-10 minutes had passed, but still no bus driver. I had gotten up out of my seat to try and see into the store from the bus and there he was… waiting on a line in the back of the Sprint store.
At that point all of the people on the bus started to get pretty angry. Hospital #1’s representative who was in the bus with us, started to hold the horn down until we received some type of reaction from the bus driver. The bus driver came to the front of the store, and told the Hospital #1 rep. to
