February 28, 2005

Spastic Bus Driver drives again

The last two mornings I have had a spastic bus driver who gets me to Crazyville by 8:30. He murmors to himself the entire time he's driving. Today, he announced, "Hey folks, look. He's got a bus schedule. How cute." Then he continued to talk to himself for a few blocks about the young chap he just let on the bus happened to be looking at his bus schedule when the bus arrived. That really got the bus driver going. Of all the places to see someone looking at a bus schedule, a bus stop sounds like a good place to me. You don't see people in the symphony scanning their program and then a bus schedule. THAT's strange.

But the thing that really drives me bonkers is how he is always early, and thus stops at 100s of stops that aren't scheduled. He'll just be driving along, slam on his breaks and let someone on. Why can't he run on time like every one else so he doesn't need to stop for (4 people today) running to catch the bus (5 if you count me). I need the bus to stop at bus stops on time. It's driving me crazy. AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrggggggggg!!!!!!!!

Posted by hans1995 at February 28, 2005 11:00 AM | TrackBack
Comments

It's driving you crazy? Must be a short drive.

I think your driver may be part of my conspiracy of People Who Always Arrive Early For Everything. In my case, I end up so early for the bus that I more often catch an earlier one.

Posted by: Eric at March 1, 2005 10:47 AM

From the perspective of living in an immense metropolis with a ridiculously overcrowded public transportation system entirely devoid of schedules, your busriding situation sounds insanely enviable.

Posted by: heather at March 1, 2005 02:04 PM

these upper mid-westerners don't know the meaning of a bad bus ride.

Posted by: Sherman at March 1, 2005 05:02 PM

Sounds bad enough to me.

Most every MTC bus has an "advertisement" listing a phone number that riders can call either to "report great service" (uh huh) or a problem. Look for it tomorrow and give 'em a call.


(('ve just posted a link to this entry, saying what I say above, from my blog, but my pinging isn't working right, so I'm letting you know via this comment).

Posted by: Tim at March 3, 2005 05:45 PM

you fools !!!!!

Posted by: at May 3, 2005 02:05 AM
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