A bus driver decides to stick his nose in an elderly woman’s private business when he overhears her on a call with her grandson — eavesdropping was this unlikely heroes’ superpower.
“Jimmy, what — what are you saying?” Elma’s voice trembled as she spoke. The nervousness in her voice alerted Mark, the chubby driver who was driving the bus the 70-year-old woman had boarded just as her phone rang.
Mark had a lot of love for his job as a bus driver; he kept his vehicle very clean, and he was always nice to the passengers, which made them respond very warmly to him.
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It was not the first time he had picked Elma up from the bus stop, and they had exchanged pleasantries a couple of times, so when he heard the distress in her voice, he was naturally concerned.
A quick glance at the cleverly positioned center mirror showed that Elma also had a worried look on her face as she continued to talk into the phone.
“OK Jimmy, I will withdraw all the money from the bank,” Mark heard.
“What could be going on?” he thought within himself.
“Are you okay?” he asked as soon as she ended the call. She looked towards him, startled, and their eyes met in the center mirror.
“Of course,” she said with a bravado she did not feel. “That was just my grandson, Jimmy. He was arrested.”
“What? That’s terrible?” Mark said, trying his best to keep the conversation between him and Elma while making sure she could actually hear him.
It was a trick he had mastered for occasions when he wanted to talk to his passengers sometimes, and it came in handy with Elma, who sat directly behind him.
“He needs 35 thousand dollars to get bailed while we await the trial but he has no such amount,” she said.
“Hold on, 35 thousand?? For bail? What crime did he commit?” Mark asked, feeling something was off.
“He was arrested for an alleged armed robbery…” Elma told him all the details, and after listening patiently, Mark asked her to remain on the bus while he completed his circuit so they could figure things out afterward.
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He offered to help because he figured something wasn’t right; bail for robbery shouldn’t cost that much, depending on what was stolen...
