You were sitting behind me in one of the back seats, huffing and puffing the whole time, because the bus wasn’t going as fast as you would have liked. We hit a red light and you say out loud to yourself, “Seriously?? Some of us have jobs to go to.” What was your problem? It’s a red light, that’s life.
When we got to the bridge terminal and the bus driver opened the doors, I stopped and stood in front of you by the back door and I made a point to let about 15 people ahead of me to get off. See, I did that on purpose just to piss you off some more because you were an annoying impatient ass. Of course, you let out the mother of all sighs.”I’m gonna miss my connection!!” you shout out. As if the world revolves around you. You didn’t make your connection; I saw you trying to chase down the departing #1. Was I a dick to stop and let everyone (but you) ahead of me, essentially causing you to miss your connection? Maybe. But maybe you need to leave earlier and catch an earlier bus! Just sayin’. —Mr. Patient Guy
This article appears in Nov 10-16, 2011.
Lol this bitch made my day. Shakes your hand OB.
I think your full name is Mr. Patient Dickhead Guy.
We all have days like that and fail to catch our connections for various reasons, not just because we’ve not allowed ourselves enough time! Yeah maybe his impatience was irritating, but the fact that you purposely went out of your way to hold this guy up and make him miss his connection show more poorly on you than it does the other guy. Grow up you small, petty, petty little asshole! I would have recognized what you were doing and shoved your sorry ass out the bus!
Ahhh, the people carrier …..
I guess it’s time for Ol HR Huff and Puff to get a car then he can rip all over the city and ignore the red lights, likely to run into a bus.
Yeah, this guy was a douche for bitching at the bus for a red light, but I know I’ve had days where the bus has been late getting to the terminal to get my connection and I JUST miss it by a minute — that’s the worst.
I’ll get a bit impatient, but I don’t yell about it. Though, the drivers who won’t open the doors and will wait until THE CONNECTION I’M TRYING TO GET HAS LEFT annoy me to no end. I could easily make those buses, but nooooo driver decides to hold us captive on the bus.
And then I have to wait a half hour because all the buses that go up to my street (all 5 of them) leave at the same damn time.
Shiiiit I thought this was a bitch about the bitch I had to deal with on a bus last week! She did the exact same thing except it was on a bus going to Bedford. We pulled onto Joseph Howe around 7:55am, and like every god damn day, it’s busy and backed up. Even if you don’t ride this route every day, you have to know that it’s rush hour so expect delays and leave earlier! Although I don’t think this woman was typically up this early. Anyway, we pulled onto JH and would stop and start, stop and start as usual. We were on that road for maybe 10 minutes at the most, probably less. I swear to fuck, every MINUTE she was huffing and puffing and saying “Fuck mayyyne!” “Fuckin traffic mayyyne!” “What’s all this traffic mayyyyne!” then she started to bang on something, I don’t know what, I’m assuming the chair or the window and she just kept saying “TRAFFIC”. She had to have been in her 30s or 40s. It was quite funny yet depressing at the same time to see an adult act like this. Like, if you’re using the bus and have to be somewhere during rush hour, you leave fucking early so if you get stuck in traffic for OMG ten minutes, it won’t ruin your day. Huffing and puffing doesn’t push the bus along any quicker, it’s not a sail boat.
I huff and puff… but it’s because the bus is so god damn warm with barely any standing room only.. the heat turned on… and all the windows closed.
That is an inferno of hell.
I don’t know how others in jackets are just chilling patiently…
but I’m standing here… just waiting…visibly sweating… wondering how no-one else is melting around me.
I can’t take any layers off without elbowing at least 3 people around me….
so if it’s that huffing and puffing… please let it go.
I’m in a great deal of discomfort and it’s not directed at you.
as for joe blow just pissed off because he’s late…
fuck him.
Doesn’t the 1 run every 7 minutes anyways?
if he can’t afford a 7 minute window he needs to get his entitled ass out of bed earlier.
You should have put this in the Love section.
“I love myself, I think I’m grand/
I ride on the bus and hold my hand/
I put my arm around my waist/
and when I get fresh, I slap my face”
Heh. Zed gets on the bus too late. I get a great seat on all the buses I take (usually by a window I can open and close at my leisure). ^_^
Doing what you did makes you just as small and petty as that whiner. Sorry if everyone on the bus’s behavior isn’t up to your standards. It’s public transit.
more fucking bus bitches, one of these days, they are going to stop all service. then i hope you will all shut the fuck up about them. if you are going to whine about them, stay the fuck off, and do those that do use them, a giant favour.
very mean op. “it’s not a sailboat”✔ and thank you zedman, that was very descriptive. shout out to the tall bitch, i love poetry on thursday
I do…
I almost wish I still had a 7-4 shift.
nearly worth waking up @ 5:30 for a decent bus ride…
I feel your pain Zzzzzz. I am currently on a bus right now and I had to rip my coat off. I don’t understand how anyone else can keep theirs on! I made the mistake of sitting next to a heater once on the bus. I just opened the window FUCK EVERYONE ELSE. I have forehead bangs. I don’t like using them as a sweat band.
My ‘usual’ bus route is actually the bus zed speaks of with my mom and that one is PACKED beyond packed in the morning (the only one I’ve experienced that’s more packed is the 8:10am 33). I usually get a window seat once the bus gets to lacewood, but I never really do get to sit with my mom. 🙁
By the time zeddy gets on the bus, it’s pretty stuffed.
Where else would you find bangs besides your forehead?
http://www.itchmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2…
Why isn’t he driving his own car? Why is he taking the slow shit service loser cruiser when he could be speeding off to work like everyone else in their cars?
Harper…
sadly, on American Idol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RrLQUN8UJg
Patience is a virtue? Unless one is exempt. Actions speak louder than words.
The over the top reaction of the self-appointed behaviour-policing OP is a classic case of 2 wrongs trying to make a right. Way to lower yourself below the standard of the person you were offended by Mr “Patient” Guy. Why do you even care about the huffer-n-puffer? So someone has poor coping skills. What’s it to ya? Making a point to teach them a lesson shows more about your lack of character than theirs. Bragging about it is an even lower choice. Bravo.
it’s not something to be proud of sis-o-mine. man this rain, who remembers “what’s a cubit?”
I do not have a reference for “what’s a cubit?”. Half the time ( okay, okay, more than half)I’m lucky to remember why I walked into any given room. Do tell. What’s “what’s a cubit?”?
bill cosby, he’s pretending he’s noah, talking to god about building an ark. it’s a one-sided conversation like bob newhart. we listened to it on cassette tapes, on one of our endless road trips
I like Bill as well.
One of my favorites is Chocolate Cake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRmN4KnfPxQ
Its not just the his tale..its watching him deliver it ~:)
Op, you antagonized someone just because they were openly grumpy. You are petty and imature.
Yes, OB, you WERE a dick. If you’re so fuckin tough tell the person to stop being a douche, but intentionally blocking them? Maybe they actually have a dick for a boss and need to get to work. A tap in the bag would make you a little less smug next time. Let me guess, the other person was a little person and you’re so freakin’ tough suddenly…
The drama from the other person was a little much too, but they didn’t actually interfere with anyone else, unlike you.
Forehead bangs are like the picture PG posted of me ;D as opposed to side bangs or no bangs.