Lets see I how became to like transit: Well I still remember my first trip (by myself on the bus it was line 35 (now its the 522) I took it to my father's work (near Hollywood Freeway and Vermont stop) I remember give the operator the money (this was when you could get change on the bus) and he gave me the change but I assumed he took out the fare for the trip. (but I learned pretty quickly that I had to drop in the fare in the box then I tried to talk to the driver- but notice that sign that say "talking to the operator is probhitted ) (so I got a little scared- that I broke some kind of law!) this was when I was about 10 years old

Later-(in my teens) I was having learning how to drive a car (I would endup turning too soon and then I even had tunnel vision)-so I figured I wasnt born to drive and I started learning the bus routes and writing a lot of questions to MTA (RTD) customer relations and I did also make friend at Customer relations as well thats about I can remember right now