What is it about bus drivers (and I am well aware that Blakey was a bus inspector) which make them so miserable? I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been running for a bus and I know that the bastard can see me in his wing mirror and yet he still pulls away leaving me calling him all the expletives of the day.
It’s a power trip for these guys. This power trip is summed up by Lothian Buses latest ruling of forcing mothers to fold up buggies before getting on the bus, even though there is a space available on the bus specifically for the purpose of storing buggies and wheelchairs. Luckily I’ve never travelled with my son on my own on a bus unless he has been in a baby sling but from experience of folding up a buggy, this is not something which would be easy to do one handed with an 11 month old in the other arm.
Anyway, I digress. I got the number 22 bus to work today. As usual, the drivers see the need to pack the bus like sardines and you end up with some sweaty lads arse jammed against your face for the 1.5 mile journey. Not nice. Now, I can almost accept the need to fill the bus so full. I’ll take one for the team if it means that as many people as possible can get to work on time.
What I won’t accept however, is fighting my way to the front of the bus as my stop approaches only to be told by the driver, in irate fashion, to move back a bit as I am blocking his view.
Excuse me mate, where do you expect me to go? Less than one pace behind me is a seething mass of humanity which resembles a cross between M&S office wear section and the black hole of Calcutta.
Next week I’m walking to work.
on Sep 12th, 2008 at 5:40 am
How come that bus drivers only get their power trip, when it’s unnecessary? An acquaintance of mine once got hit in the bus by a guy she didn’t want to go out with.
The driver didn’t do anything.
[Btw, I really like your new design.]
on Sep 12th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Mind you, I suspect if I was a bus driver I would be pretty miserable too. Dealing with hordes of pissed adolescents, lost tourists with no change and Edinburgh traffic? Make anyone a wee bit tetchy.
on Sep 15th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Bus drivers seem to be on a power trip wherever you go.
I got thrown off a bus because one of my coins wasnt shiny enough. Well ok, I was chucked off because I threw a Basil Fawlty AFTER being told my coin was unnaceptably sullied. . .
Do I look like I carry Braso in my pockets?