Remember when we had to memorize every bus route number and schedule? I used to carry a folded paper map in my pocket for 3 years...

That paper map was a lifeline (mine was always falling apart at the creases).

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Did you ever see someone miss their stop because the map was wrong? My buddy had this super old bus map that was missing two new routes. He got on what he thought was the 42, ended up across town at the depot, and had to call his mom for a ride home from the bus company lot. He was so mad he threw the map in a trash can right there.

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adamellis6mo ago

Oh man, that story about the wrong map is too real. I had a map that was missing a whole street that got rebuilt. I waited for a bus that didn't exist anymore for like an hour in the rain. My map was so taped up from falling apart, you could barely read the numbers. Felt like holding a sad paper napkin by the end.

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