Like, you actually have to wait for it in real-time, physically step on, then wait for your stop with the ability to actually explore it and chat with the other riders

No loading screens

And when you aren’t on it, you can look over and see it doing its route without you, picking up and dropping off patrons whether you’re there or not

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Finding change on the ground and remembering that money comes in other forms than cans.

Stacking the can of beans from the food pantry on top of the other can of beans from the homelessness event next to the bag of dried beans from the church food box.

Collecting bags. Ziploc bags, paper bags, plastic bags, canvas bags, fashion bags. All bags are valid.

Doing literally anything to get a free tote bag.

Developing a system via which you'll know which tote bag any given item is in.

Forgetting that system.

Slowly sorting through ten tote bags wondering which one the can opener will be inside of.

Searching for books on homelessness in the library.

Finding books on solving homelessness on a societal level and reading them anyway because there's not a lot to do.

Searching for the nearest wifi signal.

Hacking the password for the nearest wifi signal.

Getting the password for the nearest wifi signal in a legitimate fashion.

Learning that church is a free place to sit in air conditioning for about an hour.

Not ever having enough napkins.

Finding places that you can acquire free napkins and figuring out how best to hide them on your person.

Doing as many hygiene-related things during your allotted 15 minutes of shower time as you possibly can, thus learning to clip your nails while brushing your teeth and washing your hair.

Another jar of peanut butter.

Making almost every hot meal you eat in the one free-access microwave you can find.

Fifteen ways to prepare food using an electric kettle.

Fifteen public places you can plug in an electric kettle for long enough to cook something with.

The best instant ramen you've ever had.

A cleaner port-a-potty than usual.

Hearing someone sing about Jesus just as authentically and unironically as they are off-key.

Two outfits.

Finding something your size at the free clothing closet and only realizing later it's completely mislabeled.

Standing in line for an hour at a new food pantry and receiving a whole watermelon and six eggs.

Eating another ham and cheese sandwich.

Packing the mayonnaise jar upside-down and nothing bad happens per se but the lid is full of mayo now and it's just kind of weird.

Camping in your car.

Getting told by the cops to stop camping in your car.

Getting told by the cops to park your car only in the parking lot of a random business where the owner swears he's cool with it.

Also getting told by the cops to keep that hot parking tip on the down-low and that there are no guarantees the owner won't just change his mind in the middle of the night and call them to kick you out anyway.

Driving to a new town where the cops don't recognize your car.

Learning a new craft and then immediately applying it.

Petting a friendly cat.

Finding out the cheap store brand foods taste the same or better than the expensive brand name foods.

Playing that board game one more time before we turn it back in to the library.

Thinking you found a returnable bottle on the ground but it's only redeemable in a state that's a six hour drive away.

The sound of rain on an unconventional roof. (Car roof. Tent roof. Doorway awning.)

Coming up with a new answer every time someone asks you where you live.

Soaking up the strange weightless warmth of a mylar emergency blanket.

Updating the county on your EBT status and every time the hold music pauses getting a new recorded update on whether SNAP has been cancelled.

Sighting an extremely difficult-to-collect soda can and determining whether it's worth ten cents to retrieve it.

Finding out the current guided art project at the shelter is pumpkin painting.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

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