The Bus Ride

It was the day of finals and everyone is worn out from staying up late the night before getting everything completed. After our last final, Art, Kelsey, Chris, Melanie and I decide that we don't want to wallow in the self-pity of a taxing day of finals so we decide we should go into town for a final day of shopping and fun in City Center. It was about 2pm and we wanted to get bus tickets before 3pm to get all day passes to save a few pence. Kelsey couldn't go until 4pm so we figured that Chris, Melanie, and I could go to the bus stop and buy all day passes plus one for Kelsey and then get right off the bus and use them later. We are at the bus stop going over our game plan, who says what, etc and we decide that Melanie will buy a ticket first and ask if she can use it later. The bus driver says "okay" so she moves to get off the bus. When the driver finally realizes what we had been talking about he goes, "Oy you can't get off the bus." So, Melanie moves to sit down. I then buy two tickets, one for Kelsey, and go to sit down when I get called back because one person can't buy two tickets. I get a ten dollars in change- in coins- and sit down. Chris buys her ticket and sits and we are all stressed out. A man got on after us and apologized for the drivers rudeness. We then rode the bus a few stops and realized that we have to ring the bell to get off, so we ride at least a mile and get off and sorta run away from the bus. We cross the street and ride back. Thirty minutes later, we saved like 30 Pence apiece and went through a whole lot of hoopla, but we got our all-day tickets. Phew.