Is “My Metrobus got a speeding ticket” a good excuse for being late to work?

25 May

Since I’ve been catching Metro into DC everyday for work, I’ve been seeing some weird things. I decided to blog about it because some of these things are crazy. I’ll mention some of the other things later but today I saw something that if I wasn’t there I wouldn’t believe it. I live about 2 miles from the Vienna Metro station and I typically catch a bus there to avoid having to park. I’m on the bus and the bus driver is going along. All of a sudden a police officer steps into the road and directs the bus to pull over. The bus driver was like “Me?” and the officer told him to pull on a side street.
“Do you know why I pulled you over?”
“No.”
“This is a 35 mile zone and I clocked you at 47.”
“I couldn’t have been going that fast. I just took off.”
“May I see your license sir?”
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The bus driver got a speeding ticket. All of us passengers were in as much disbelief as the driver was. I don’t know how fast the bus was going but pulling over a bus full of commuters is ridiculous.

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