Restored my faith (From York Press)

Restored my faith

10:45am Thursday 9th February 2012 in Letters

ON MY many journeys around York by bus, I have encountered, good, bad and sometimes ugly bus drivers; no doubt they could feel the same way regarding their passengers.

However, I felt privileged recently to witness an act of kindness by one driver towards a passenger in distress.

An elderly woman with a child in a pram climbed on board our bus which was heading into York.

As soon as the bus set off, she realised that her house keys were missing because her car was being serviced at the local garage and that they were combined with the car keys.

Since we were now passing the garage in question, the bus driver stopped in a lay-by and waited patiently while she retrieved her keys from the garage.

No doubt he risked being reprimanded by First for misuse of their bus timetables, but I applaud him. He helped restore my faith back in humanity.

Phil Shepherdson, Chantry Close, Woodthorpe, York.