Many times my most memorable travel experiences are those that are awkward or unexpected – mishaps, even, as I'm about to describe below.
My wife enjoyed taking bus trips to New York City. Sometimes we were part of a group, but also we went on our own.
It was on one such occasion that I got the quintessential New York experience. Before boarding the bus home, each of us had to present our ticket to the agent. I like to make such encounters easy for people, so I opened the little bus pass booklet and turned it around to face the driver. Or at least that’s what I intended. Instead I fumbled the ticket onto the grimy concrete floor.
When I finally retrieved it and apologetically handed it to the agent in classic Woody Allen fashion, he bowled me over with a look that said, "What a MORON!"
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