Failed attempt

Public transportation is not as easy as it looks! One day Shae, Becca, Steph, and I went to a museum and we were to take a bus back home to Irene's Place. Well, first of all, we had bought bus tickets weeks back so we had those in our pockets and Moriah told us to take bus 6 back to our house. So we found the bus terminal and it made sense to wait for bus six where there are benches with a big sign with the number 6 on it. We wait there for about 15 minutes and here comes a bus 6. We attempt to get on the bus, but the bus driver looked at our card and said "sorry, you can't board this bus... you have a ACTION card and since they are a monoply we don't accept those cards." Well, we were a bit ticked off, but what were we to do? So we went back to the benches and proceeded to wait for a bus that said "ACTION" on the side. There were heaps of ACTION buses that passed, but none stopped where we were. After about 10 minutes, we decided to go look at the map which was posted across the street. The map was not helpful for our American minds which didn't comprehend the different columns that stated bus numbers and terminal numbers... it was like we were in a foreign country!! :). We just stood there completely defeated and helpless. After much confusion we decided to find a payphone and call Moriah for help.

That was not the end of the problems. We couldn't get the payphones to take our money! I'm telling you, the payphones in Australia are not normal. There are weird slots in them which tell you to insert a payphone card?! I still don't know what that was about... but the slot where we were supposed to insert change was closed. (See SincerelyShae.blogspot.com for video) Eventually, after lifting up a pulley and forcing in coins with a certain amount of pressure and correct timing (see how complicated it was!) we got the coins to go in. I put in $1, which gave us like 30 seconds of calling time. At this point we were all grumpy, defeated, and just didn't want to attempt to find the bus so we just asked Moriah to come pick us up, as embarressing as that was. May I add that it took us 2 phone calls to actually get in everything we needed to say before time ran out. So, needless to say... Mission FAILED.