Route of Division: heartbreaking story of aging Birmingham housekeepers

[2kool]

http://projects.aljazeera.com/2015/05/birmingham-bus/

This story is beyond sad.

The bus used to stop in front of a spa on the corner, but, some of the women say, the spa complained and the bus had to move.

As she gets off the bus, Elaine King, 65, worries the afternoon bus isn't going to come. “It didn't yesterday or last Friday,” she recounts. “It's more than unfortunate.”

Since the bus only makes one trip back to Birmingham in the afternoon, many of the women arrange for family to pick them up or wait for their bosses to drive them home after work.

 

[chocalate_topaz]

It is sad...but you have to want more to get to more

 

[2kool]

It is sad...but you have to want more to get to more

You're exactly right. But they also have to have faith that they can attain more.

So many of us put faith in God but won't put faith in ourselves.

 

[chocalate_topaz]

You're exactly right. But they also have to have faith that they can attain more.

So many of us put faith in God but won't put faith in ourselves.

Yes, TOGETHER its needed

 

[Bane]

That is all they know.

A 62-year-old woman leans on a retractable cane and slowly walks toward the bus, chanting, “Don’t wanna go, but you gotta go ... Don’t wanna go, but you gotta go.”

 

[2kool]

That is all they know.

A 62-year-old woman leans on a retractable cane and slowly walks toward the bus, chanting, “Don’t wanna go, but you gotta go ... Don’t wanna go, but you gotta go.”

That's just...sigh.