Boston Bus Driver Pulls Over To Buy Lemonade For Passengers
BOSTON, July 21 (UPI) — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority shared video of a bus driver stopping his vehicle at a roadside lemonade stand to buy beverages for his passengers.
The video, posted to an official YouTube account for the MBTA, shows driver John Lohan get off the bus while driving his route one afternoon last week and purchase lemonade for himself and his six passengers.
Lohan said he came up with the idea when he spotted the West Roxbury lemonade stand earlier in the day and he checked with his passengers to make sure they agreed to the stop.
“I said to them, ‘If any of you are in a hurry or need to make a connection, I’ll keep going,'” Lohan told Boston.com.
Lohan said it was a brief stop.
“I thought it would take 90 seconds, tops,” he said. “Which is about what it was. … I wait at red lights longer than that.”
The driver said he was pleased to find the price of lemonade has not increased from the 50 cents he recalled paying during his own childhood.
“I was surprised by that,” he said. “Decades ago, it was 50 cents. I thought it was a good deal.”
Lohan said a repeat of the adventure is unlikely.
“All the stars were aligned,” he said. “The conditions were just right. … Ninety percent of the time, you can’t do that on the job.”
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