Bus Routes

She takes the 894 thirteen blocks south to catch the 1152, then ten blocks east before she walks the final three blocks north to her school. It’s a minimum of 35 minutes unless there’s weather or she missed the 6:30 and has to wait for the 6:50. Then it’s an hour. She’d ride an express if there were any running within five blocks of where she worked. But the expresses run through that neighborhood, not to it.

He is never awake before 6:45, never leaves until 7:45. The one time he drove her, his only comment was “I bet we could afford to buy here.”