> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.smdp.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # No token love affair on the Big Blue Bus - URL: https://www.smdp.com/no-token-love-affair-on-the-big-blue-bus/ - Published: 2006-10-16T15:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-23T21:40:45.000Z - Author: Kevin Herrera - Tags: local, Venice, #archive-import Without public transportation, Greg Good and Alicia Hancock may still be wandering through life looking for love. Instead, the two are planning to tie the knot next year, and they owe it all to the Big Blue Bus. The couple first met a little over two years ago while riding Big Blue’s Line 1 to UCLA, where both were studying law. While it wasn’t love at first sight, both knew there was something special about the other. “I thought he was really attractive and really nice,” Hancock said Saturday, as she gazed at her future husband, who was cuddled up next to her on a couch in the Venice apartment they share. “I mean, I was one of the only people who would actually say ‘Good Morning’ to the bus drivers when I would get on the bus. And I remember the first time I saw him, Greg had this big smile and he said ‘Good morning! How are you?’ to the bus driver. “I thought, ‘How nice.’” It took about a month, but during one of the hour-long bus rides to the Westwood campus, Good noticed Hancock’s UCLA card carrier dangling from her key-chain. “I thought, ‘That’s my in,”’ Good recalled. The two struck up a conversation and began to talk regularly whenever they would run into each other on the bus. “It was really sporadic,” Hancock said. “I was in my last year, Greg in his first, so we had very different schedules. I wasn’t on campus as much as he was.” At first, their conversations were casual. The two would usually talk about school, finals and football. But after a few months, the conversations became more personal, until eventually, Good could no longer contain himself — he had to ask Hancock out on a date. “I thought she was so beautiful and so comfortable with herself that I just knew that I had to ask her out,” said the 36-year-old Good. “I told myself, ‘Greg, the next time you see her, you aren’t getting out of this bus until you ask her on a date. Period.’ So, I waited and waited until one day I saw her again and …” 540,“He said, ‘I don’t want to be goofy, but do you want to have dinner some time?’” recalled the 27-year-old Hancock. “Is that what I said?” Good asked, looking a little embarrassed. “Now, that’s goofy.” Hancock, who admits she was “oblivious” to Good’s attraction, said “yes” and the two decided to meet for sushi. They hit it off immediately and have been virtually inseparable ever since, eventually deciding to move in together about a year ago. “I think we’re both relationship-phobes and I know I had become quite cynical about relationships, but we just seemed to connect,” Good said. “I guess we both felt we had stumbled onto greatness.” The two talked of marriage, but it wasn’t until Hancock had lunch with some girlfriends a month or so ago that she realized the time was right to pop the big question. “My girlfriends were both in serious relationships and we were talking about who was going to get married first, and both were like, ‘Well, I don’t think he’s going to ask,’” Hancock said. “That’s when it kind of hit me. If you’re in a relationship and you love each other and you know you want to spend the rest of your life together, why wait for the guy to ask? Why let that get in the way?” It seemed like a crazy idea at first, but Hancock knew that if she wanted ask Good to marry her, she would have to do something special. Since the two first met while riding the bus, Hancock could think of no better way to pop the big question than to rent one and trick Good into jumping aboard. “I thought it was going to be a long shot,” Hancock said. “I mean, this is a public transportation company. What were the chances of them renting one out? Well, they do.” Hancock set it up so the bus would be waiting for them at the stop on Main Street at Rose Avenue — where they first laid eyes on one another. While on a walk, Hancock pretended her ankle was bothering her. She started limping for effect and suggested they take the bus home. “It was kind of strange because the bus really wasn’t going to get us very far,” Good said. As they rounded a corner, Hancock could see the bus waiting. Hancock pulled Good along and hopped onto the bus, her limp suddenly disappearing as she walked quickly to the back of the bus. “I’m like, ‘Why aren’t you paying? What are you doing?’” Good said. “I asked the bus driver, but he just kept looking straight and didn’t say anything. Then in one of those ‘Twilight Zone’ moments, he shut the door and took off. She’s like, ‘Come here.’ … She asked me to marry here and, of course, I said ‘yes.’” The two ended up driving through Santa Monica Canyon, along Pacific Coast Highway, ending up at Casa Del Mar Hotel for dinner. “There is no question that the Big Blue Bus has resonance, appeal and affection for me,” Good said. “I think of Alicia, at least a little, every time I get on the bus.” Same goes for Hancock. “I have traveled all over the world, but my most important trip was the one-hour route from Venice to UCLA,” she said. “And my heart is indebted to the Big Blue.” *Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 16, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101606.pdf?ref=smdp.com)