Go to the back of the bus so that others can get on the bus.
Do not wait to be asked to move. Courtesy and sense people.
Do not huddle next to the bus driver. People on either side of the aisle is also annoying to those getting on the bus. You are in the way. Same goes for all exits of the bus, stay clear!
Take off your huge backpacks. They block space and you don’t realize how you keep hitting people.
Give your seats to those who clearly need them more than you.
And I do not want to hear your entire phone conversations or music. Volume down! —Bus Travel Blues
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.
Scrub the filthy floor for me first and then I’ll take my backpack off.
new bus users are sooooo Green aka new !
even worse when you have a 5 year old, and trying to get to a seat, that is open, at the fucking bacck of the bus. dumb fucking humans.
i can’t fucking stand when people sit close to the aisle and block the window seat so as to “have the whole area to themselves”… lol as if they’re too good to be sitting with anyone one else. I also can’t stand loud kids on the bus who give everyone around them the sudden urge to spit in their fucking little eyes. ugh.
if someone is sitting on the aisle seat, and leaving the window seat open, stomp on their feet while you push past them into the open seat. and make sure they get a bum in the face while you’re at it. they only do it because most people will not want to a. ask them to slide over or get up so they can get in. or b. be a little rude oneself and push into the seat.
those passive aggressive people drive me crazy, i think there was a bitch on here about an aisle sitter, who said she didn’t like people close to her. geeze, hire a limo then. its ‘public’ transit.
swamp donkey, rest your backpack on top of your shoes – it keeps it off the floor. thats what i do with large purses. really, when you swing around your backpack really hurts.
Resting it on top of my shoes is only going to work if nobody kicks it off and the bus doesn’t take any corners. I’d prefer to just mind where my crap is going like a grownup and take a few excuse mes from people who want to get by.
i took transit for years in toronto, believe me when the lights go out and the subway stops, you learn to get along
did you carry a wee flashlight? i woulda
Sarah Parks wouldn’t go to the back of the bus, I won’t either.
Fart on people. They move as soon as they hear the escaping of bad smelling gas.
Wrong Parks GV.
Completely off topic, good one Diver Guy. I laughed so hard at old Sarah Parks, maybe she was the behind the scenes secret sister of Rosa.
probably thinking of sarah jessica parker, i bet she wouldn’t go on a bus at all!
Ugh. This happened on the 10 on my way to work a few weeks ago. I was waiting in line to get on the bus. There was TONS of room from the back door backwards, but everyone was huddled at the front. The dumbass driving the bus wouldn’t tell people to move back and was all “no mo’ room!,” closed the door and fucked off.
So when the next bus came I was on the phone with the call centre to complain (I’m complaining about everything metro transit related because i”m sick of the shit I’ve been dealing with since the strike ended) and the driver of that bus heard me and actually yelled at me “well MAYBE you should get up earlier!” The chick at the call centre heard the guy and added it to my complaint. I said to her (so the driver could hear) “some of us already get up three hours before they have to get to work just coming from clayton park because the bus service suck so badly, and I don’t expect being talked back to by a bus driver.”
I had no real issues with MT before the strike. Now, i find A LOT of the drivers I encounter to be snotty assfucks. Must be nice to be unionized up the ass so much that you’ll never get fired (or even disciplined).
Whenever I can, I sit in the first row, aisle seat because otherwise I get severe motion sickness… I should probably wear a sign that says “feel free to take the window seat” because I do feel like a huge douche. I do, however, think people would prefer to think I’m a douche than to endure my vomit???
Moving to the back of the bus to accommodate others requires logic and common courtesy if that answers your question OP. I guess we can’t all be Sarah Parks.