Day Two: 7 14

It is amazing how quickly some activities become rote.  Day two of riding the bus, I already had the in-home prep work down, my walk timed and my change counted out.  Despite my comfort with those activities, I was still feeling trepidation about one bus riding right of passage:  Pulling the cord to request a stop.

The action is simple, you pull the cord when you want to get off.  But behind the action, my mind raced with questions and concerns:
When do you pull the cord?  Immediately after pulling away from the previous stop?  As you get closer to the desired stop? Do I defer until someone else (hopefully) pulls it?   My fellow bus riders where no help, they were all over the map.

This was an all evening ride concern, for my stop on my morning commute was the last stop of the line.  No need to pull the cord.  The bus driver stops the bus, opens the door and all remaining riders exit the bus. Fortunate for me that I only had to fret over the cord once a day.

Ultimately, I pulled the cord as we had fully pulled away from the previous stop, the prerecorded voice commanded "Stop Requested".