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The Poor Man’s Corrigan

“We were on this bus for seven hours just going in a circle,” Morgan Staley complained. It was supposed to be the 2:30 a.m. Greyhound from Cleveland, in northeast Ohio, to New York. It left, passengers said, at 6:00, then went to Pennsylvania (which is east of Ohio, the right direction), and then back to Ohio — to Toledo, in the northwest corner of the state. Greyhound blamed the return to Ohio on a “road failure” and the detour to the Glass City on “an error made, which we’re currently looking into to obtain details.” Upon reaching Toledo, the company said, the driver headed back to Cleveland and swapped buses. “The customers then continued to their destination,” Greyhound said. But they didn’t all continue on with Greyhound: one bought a plane ticket. (AC/WEWS Cleveland) ...Did he end up in Ireland?
Original Publication Date: 22 April 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.

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