BusTales.com is the personal project of Rett Martin, a web designer currently living in Minnesota. The inspiration came from the "Overheard in" series and countless days riding the bus.
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Feb 3, 2009
Sometimes I like to ride the transit bus. It gives me some down time, time to evaluate myself and my problems. I've got problems and riding the bus gives me time to try to find, and ask for, solutions. I rarely talk to the other bus people but sometimes someone wants to …
Jan 10, 2009
So the other day I was riding the 11. It was rush hour, probably around 5 p.m., so as you can imagine, the bus was fairly full. We were nearing the MIA when a man got on the bus. At first I thought he was vision impaired because he had on sunglasses and I could see he …
Dec 24, 2008
If you've ever been pregnant, you know how in the last few weeks you start to move slower and slower and slower. The six blocks between my house and the University and Snelling bus stop increase from a five minute walk to a 15 minute walk in the weeks before my son was …
Dec 17, 2008
I saw the poor thing on the side of the road near a bus stop, casualty of an over night hit by a car I assumed. About 2 hours later, on another pass down this street on my route, it was "propped up" on the bench. I saw it, and did a double take. I had to pull over and …
Dec 13, 2008
I was heading South on Chicago Ave on the number 5E. It was a pretty full bus, but it looked like the typical crowd from the neighborhood. I was sitting near the front of bus. I needed to unwind after a long day at the office, so I began work on my Sudoku puzzle …