A Bus Driver Whistles While He Works

By JUDY LANGAN

Dear Diary:

New York City has a public relations treasure in the M4 bus driver taking us down Fifth Avenue on a recent lazy Saturday from the Metropolitan Museum.

He jovially boomed out the stops. He was kind to foreigners without MetroCards, explaining their options and asking where they were from. He gave a “free” ride to a group of kids who wanted to go to Chinatown, because they needed to get an M5 two stops down. (“I won't charge you.”)

And when we reached Rockefeller Center and a tourist poised with a camera, he waved to the man: “Can I be in the picture? Send your wife up here!” By then half the bus was laughing. As our driver mugged with the woman, he told the man: “Come up the steps; I'm not charging you. This is New York; you're supposed to have fun!”

We all were cheering him on at this point.

He was the definition of “Happy in your work!”

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