Everybody else on the bus learned to like it a lot sooner than I did.
And the first thing that a young lady who gets off the Greyhound bus learns is to see and be seen, at liberal-based fundraisers.
If their target is a van full of the enemy, it does not matter if there is a school bus nearby, as that bus better learn to get the hell out of the way when a fully armored kill-bot tank is on scene spraying the area with radioactive ordinance.
"But everyone on that bus also learned we have people working hard on solutions".
They have opened bank accounts, taken the bus and learned to operate their stove.
Sometimes, though, as the people who run the bus have learned, it helps to show them something worse, too.
Sheila helped Paul, who has limited speech and special needs, to get a bus pass, learn to cycle and take up painting.
At Qalandiya, we left our heavy luggage on the bus and learned to squeeze through the metal cages of the turnstiles without leaving a gap; the cages rotate a given number of times then stop.
Bus riders learn that, if your MetroCard turns out to be short fifty cents, the driver will look at you with distaste, tell you to find change from fellow-passengers (surprisingly, to a subway rider, people dig into their purses cheerfully), and, if this doesn't work, will wearily wave you on back.
Left with two teenagers to provide for, 40-something Florrick has to climb back onto the legal bus to learn from scratch the ropes of the profession she left 15 years ago – not an easy feat in the world of Chicago law.
