Comments on: Off your trolley ??? http://ianbek.kg/?p=17097 Observations from an expat Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:45:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.4 By: ian http://ianbek.kg/?p=17097&cpage=1#comment-27847 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:24:29 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=17097#comment-27847 One of my favourite Trolleybus stories was told to me by a friend who had been up in Naryn on business. As he was walking down the main street – Lenin Street, of course – they saw a babushka emerge from one of the apartment blocks and look up at the overhead wires … apparently listening for something.

She said something like “Five more minutes”, turned round and went into one of the shops … emerging a short while later with her purchases and walked back to the trolleystop.

Sure enough, when the five minutes were up … the trolleybus rolled up.

He said that he had no idea if there was a timetable or if she really had a way of diving how far away a trolleybus was by looking/listening to the wires … but he was reminded of the old tales of trackers and hunters putting their ears to the ground and listening before uttering some profound comment … “another five minutes”.

]]> By: ian http://ianbek.kg/?p=17097&cpage=1#comment-27840 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 03:21:31 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=17097#comment-27840 Spasibo!

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=17097&cpage=1#comment-27839 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 03:20:21 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=17097#comment-27839 As usual, your post is excellent.

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