Posted
on Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:00 AM
I just want to express my distaste at having been told today by a bus driver to “look more like you're waiting for the bus.” I've lived in Halifax for eight years and standing at the bus stop and looking at the approaching bus has always been enough. Should I also wave my arms wildly? Use a flashlight to signal in Morse code that I would like to take the bus? I sometimes will shake my head at an approaching bus to signal that I'm waiting for a different one (when I'm the only person at the stop), as a courtesy to the driver, but I would hope that standing at a bus STOP would be enough to signal to the driver that he/she should STOP for me. The sass was unappreciated, especially after waiting twenty minutes for a bus that never appeared. —Perpetually unpunctual