Too cute: My parents joined me for a transit-oriented food adventure!!

I got this awesome email from my mother just after I arrived at the Hollywood/Western subway station for the Thai Songkran festival yesterday:

2nd time in 20 years, I utilized the subway to go somewhere!
I met up w/ Sunya at the Hollywood/Western station.


Sent via Apps Phone from Verizon (<--My mother has a better cell phone than I do.)

 And then it had this picture attached:

My folks had a bit of trouble figuring out how to buy their fares. Mind you, they are not regular riders, just the parents of one. Ordinarily, I use a credit card to buy fares, which is why I never knew that a) Metro gives you change in dollar coins and b) you can't use dollar coins to buy fares at the fare machine (they don't fit). My father figured this out the hard way, as he paid with a $10 bill and had eight $1 coins weighing down the pocket of his pants.


Moral of the story: The Tritipeskuls made it to Thai Town, but on my List of Things To Do is to make a How To Buy Train Fare video.