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I just made a carefully timed trip to Harvard Square, mostly to buy ice cream, and also to get dry-mouth spray at the CVS in Harvard Square. [I prefer the CVS/Bartell's generic to the Biotene it's a generic of, because the generic is less minty.]
Carefully timed: there were very few other passengers on the 73 bus, in either direction. I walked to the back and opened some of the bus windows, in addition to the ones that were already open.
Most of the other passengers on those buses were also masked, which was a pleasant surprise, since they're no longer required. I didn't expect to be the only person with a mask, but I also wasn't expecting there to be only one unmasked passenger on the outbound bus. I saw more unmasked people walking through the Harvard Square subway station, or waiting for other buses.
I was amused by one passenger on the bus home. She got on the bus and headed to the seats. The driver got her attention, and she said "right, mask," and put one on. Then he got her attention again, to pay her fare--until last month, fares on the outbound 71 and 73 were collected on exiting, not entering, the bus.
I'm still not getting on a rush hour 77 bus--but I wasn't doing that last week, when masks were required.
Carefully timed: there were very few other passengers on the 73 bus, in either direction. I walked to the back and opened some of the bus windows, in addition to the ones that were already open.
Most of the other passengers on those buses were also masked, which was a pleasant surprise, since they're no longer required. I didn't expect to be the only person with a mask, but I also wasn't expecting there to be only one unmasked passenger on the outbound bus. I saw more unmasked people walking through the Harvard Square subway station, or waiting for other buses.
I was amused by one passenger on the bus home. She got on the bus and headed to the seats. The driver got her attention, and she said "right, mask," and put one on. Then he got her attention again, to pay her fare--until last month, fares on the outbound 71 and 73 were collected on exiting, not entering, the bus.
I'm still not getting on a rush hour 77 bus--but I wasn't doing that last week, when masks were required.