not waiting for the bus
This morning on my walk to school I found myself waiting at a relatively busy intersection to cross the street. The corner also happens to be a bus stop, and as I waited to cross a bus pulled over to let me on. I didn’t want to get on. I almost got on just cause I felt bad that the driver had taken the trouble to pull over for me. However, I have no idea how much bus fare is here, and I have a lot of work to do at school today, so I decided I had to make the bus driver understand that I didn’t want to get on. How to go about this? I started by kind of shuffling a little in another direction, as if my attention was not on the bus or I was going to walk away. Then I realized that was stupid, so I just smiled and shook my head, and the bus drove on.
Is there proper etiquette for that kind of situation? Why do I feel like I didn’t handle it well?
