When riding the rails (and airlines), people often come up to me and ask questions about what they should do. Don't know why -- maybe I look like I know what I'm doing?
Naturally I'm always happy to help, and if I don't know the answers to their questions I'll guide them to someone who (hopefully) will. But since I try to be a well-prepared traveler, I usually know.
What I'm asking with this topic is for folks to share memorable experiences of assisting fellow travelers.
An example:
While attending college in New York I did a lot of joyriding on Metro North. One day a woman on the platform, clearly pregnant, asked about which train she should take to get to her doctor. Her car had broken down, so she was riding for the first time.
Directed her to the posted schedules. Turned out she didn't know how to read a timetable, so she came back and asked if I could explain it to her. Since I was in no hurry to get anywhere, I found out where she needed to go, accompanied her on the train to the right stop, and got her a cab to the doctor. Then I went back to joyriding.
Surely other folks on this forum have similar stories. SHARE!
Naturally I'm always happy to help, and if I don't know the answers to their questions I'll guide them to someone who (hopefully) will. But since I try to be a well-prepared traveler, I usually know.
What I'm asking with this topic is for folks to share memorable experiences of assisting fellow travelers.
An example:
While attending college in New York I did a lot of joyriding on Metro North. One day a woman on the platform, clearly pregnant, asked about which train she should take to get to her doctor. Her car had broken down, so she was riding for the first time.
Directed her to the posted schedules. Turned out she didn't know how to read a timetable, so she came back and asked if I could explain it to her. Since I was in no hurry to get anywhere, I found out where she needed to go, accompanied her on the train to the right stop, and got her a cab to the doctor. Then I went back to joyriding.
Surely other folks on this forum have similar stories. SHARE!