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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue May 18 13:29:04 2010, in response to Re: PHOTOS: Jon's Juice Junket, part 1 - New Orleans, posted by Jon Bell on Sun May 16 11:31:40 2010. The fareboxes really slow down boarding. Most people pay cash, with a dollar bill and a quarter. Feeding those dollar bills into the machine is the real time-killer.Nothing phases New Orleanians in regard to time. The first thing I learned when I got off the plane my first time there, as a NYer was that we had to slow WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY down. I remember we just walked through the airport with our mouths open, as it was so different than NY. I noticed most people in New Orleans are basically slow and stop (not criticizing, just saying how different it is than NY where we want everything fast on steroids). It's funny you mention the boarding, as I have a funny trip from when I was on the St Charles Streetcar saome years ago on the Carrolton segment. All of a sudden, the streetcar just stops, and the driver gets out, and says "I'll be right back folks". He walks out of his parked streetcar and walks across the street to a sandwich shop. Is in there some minutes (as other streetcars slowly back up behind us. Everyone on the streetcar just sat patiently, not saying a word, not complaining (picture the same when a subway car stops in the tunnel in NY, lol) A few minutes later, he walks out of the shop with a bag with a sandwich in it, gets back into the streetcar, it putters up, and off we go...... |
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