No idling!

At night we have meeting points. The reason for this is that the service slows down considerably and instead of buses being minutes apart they're now half an hour apart. So we have certain points in the city where we stop and wait for other buses to show up. (Ie: I'm travelling northbound, I'll wait for the east and westbound buses). This way anyone who's on that bus can hop onto mine, or vice versa, and they don't have to worry about missing their connection. 



I get to my meeting point last night and stop; waiting for the other buses to arrive. A drunk bum on the bus pipes up "Shouldn't you be shutting the bus down? They do have a three minute idle law in the city you know." "I'm aware of that, but I'm not driving a diesel, I'm driving a trolley." I respond. "Oh, your bus doesn't run on diesel. What does it run on, gasoline?" He asked. "It's a trolley. It's run by electricity" I said. "Electricity? Really? When did the city get those?" He asked. "About sixty years ago" I responded. "But what if the power goes out? They must have a gasoline engine, just in case?" He asked. "Nope, these buses are entirely electric. They have back up batteries. We can go about 15 blocks at 30kmh before we'll run out of power" I explained. "Wow, these newfangled gadgets. I can never keep up with technology these days" He exclaimed. Yeah, cuz 60 years of trolleys is really new!!