Taking the bus: Love takes a turn at the wheel

IndyGo’s bus drivers see a lot. Sometimes they meet new friends, the way that Dilexi Rosario did after she started driving. But what are the chances she would meet a future husband?

Dilexi was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New York City as a teen-ager. She got a job driving school buses, and when she moved to Indianapolis with her first husband, she kept driving, this time with IndyGo.

She’s been a city bus driver for 12 years now and loves it – meeting people, listening to their stories, offering some advice now and then. Simply put, she likes helping people.

The marriage didn’t work out, and so at age 40 she had two grown children and felt like something was missing.

“I was looking for true love,” she said. “Isn’t everybody?”

She didn’t have to look far, as it turned out: She met Sean Cox when he worked in the garage at IndyGo and was glad when later he became a driver.

“When he started driving, he wore a different uniform, and that’s when I really started paying attention to him,” she says.

They would talk when they passed each other before or after a shift. Dilexi started watching Sean’s schedule and making sure they “ran into each other.” One of those times was in the drivers’ break room, and she asked him to play pool. Something clicked for both of them and they started spending more time together.

Sean even went with her to St. Patrick’s Church for the Mass in Spanish. One day after Mass  he had a question – in her language

“He doesn’t even speak Spanish,” she said. “But he’s so sweet and gentle and wanted to touch my heart.”

It was very simple. He turned to her and, remembering the phrase he’d worked hard to memorize, said, “¿Te casarías conmigo?”

She was touched. Saying it that way meant a lot. Yes, Dilexi said, I’ll marry you.


- By John Strauss, jcs1122@yahoo.com