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listen to a conversation between a student and the campus Transportation Director
Hi, I\'ll be right with you.
You have no idea how maddening this day has been.
We just launched this new ride sharing website because we have a lot of students who travel long distances over term breaks. Yeah, me included the website is it\'s just it\'s not working right.
You\'re supposed to input your name and destination, indicate if you need a rider, riders and all of that, but it doesn\'t retain anything.
You try to store your information, but the web form keeps coming back blank for some reason, that\'s strange. Moved up the launch date for this website so students could connect before spring. Drake.
Now the program is on vacation, and you\'re like the 15th student who\'s come to see me today,
so I guess you\'re having problems with site too.
No, I didn\'t even know about it, actually,
really well. I thought we promoted it pretty well.
We had an article in the student newspaper, and then some flyers posted around campus.
I guess I\'ve been so involved preparing for exams lately that I I just haven\'t had time to read anything but textbooks.
No wonder. Okay, so. what\'s going on?
Well, normally, I ride to my parents’ house with this one friend during breaks, but yesterday she was invited to her cousin\'s house,
so she\'s going there instead of to my town.
I can\'t believe she canceled on me like that, but I guess you won\'t be able to find me another ride with the website not working right, and spring break starts in two days.
You know, just before you came in, I was looking at the ride sharing site from Campbell college,
because it\'s so close to here.
I printed out their list of brides. Where do you need to go? Dayton.
Here\'s one.
Leaves at noon, but only goes as far as Smithville. Do you think you could arrange from there? Smithville is like two hours from my house, and my parents won\'t be able to pick me up till the next day because they\'re out of town.
Maybe my brother,
but he doesn\'t get off work till five. That\'s like, what a three hour gap.
Well, there might be a bus from Smithville in the afternoon.
Well, then I might as well take the bus from here, but busses take forever,
but it\'ll be shorter from Smithville, right.
Okay, here\'s another possibility.
Here\'s a student who\'s driving through Dayton but wants to sightsee along the way.
I\'ve already seen everything worth seeing around there. I just want to get home.
Well, I\'m sorry, but I\'m not seeing anything else.
Well, I guess that seeing a few sites along the way won\'t be that terrible. Not so terrible at all.
Okay, let me get you the contact information.
Um, you Oh, it\'s not listed anymore.
Looks like the Smithville ride is the only one that\'s still available.
Oh, I guess it\'ll be faster to take the bus from the stop here on campus then.