A story a day: Just another bus story

Some of you may wonder when will this crazy guy (in your context, that implies me ) stop talking about his bus trips and things like that. The answer is that i'm gonna stop it soon, as soon as I have no more thing to talk about it, or I no longer want to talk about it

Well, today we will enjoy some stories about people on the bus. For clarification, "people" here means "nice people" as I normally don't remember those "not so nice" ones

As usual, we first jump on a normal morning bus in a normal working day, say, 1st Dec 2006 (not so far huh). At a bus stop, there were a little girl and an old lady boarding onto the bus. When the girl tapped her EZlink card (the prepaid travel pass I mentioned sometime before in my blog), she realized that the card balance was negative. So she moved to the old lady and said:

"Grandma, my card has no money. Give me some coin"

"No need lah [1], you're in already", said the old lady.

"Grandmaaaaaaa, I don't want to do that , give me some coin", she insisted.

"Aiyo [2], so annoying ", the lady complained and gave her some coin.

"Not enough, give me 20 cent more ", said the girl after looking that the coins she was given

".... ", her grandma said something that nobody could hear.

Having collected enough coins, she ran to the bus driver to get the ticket. All of us, who were sitting in the bus observing the story, smiled with her, for a great new day.

Well, that little girl, like many other children in this small island, always keep in their mind the "Pay your fare and pay the correct fare for your bus trip". How many of us don't remember (or pretend to forget) that lesson?