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To the bus driver:
Your cuteness took me by surprise when I stepped on the bus.
I love your beard, it is hot! Plus, you have a super smile.
Thanks for the pick me up at the end of a crappy day.
P.S. You should have hit that biker. (kidding) :p
—sitting on your bus now
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
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Was it “Plastic Driver Guy” by any chance?
We’ll have to point PDG this way to see what he has to say.
*Sees the PDG signal in the sky*
While this could be about me, there are a couple of other drivers I think could fit that description as well. This love lacks details, probably for a reason :p
P.S. Dockyard’s too narrow to go around bikers, even those drinking Tims while they ride. Hitting them is too much paperwork.
plus you’ll get brain matter and shite on your windshield
OP here. I did have more identifying information, but that got taken out. Guess it was too revealing (route #, time, bus #). However the dockyard comment lets me think that it might have been PDG 😉
Paingirl: Not worried, we have wipers and wash fluid for that. 😉
LIH: Buy a lotto ticket. ~450 drivers, and you write about the one who is a regular here. Nice one!
Ohhh post it here anyway! It should be up for at least a couple of hours for us to see before admin. gets rid of it since comments aren’t pre-moderated. PDG, you may have another admirer.
By the way PDG, I love your avatar of one of the old “Fishbowl” buses! Takes me back to the days of riding those buses around Halifax-Dartmouth when I was a kid. They were always the best ones because they had the comfier cushioned seats and the windows slid open, unlike the newer buses. Don’t see too many of them around in Halifax anymore but I think Metro Transit still has a few in operation that poke their heads out from time to time. When I was up in the Valley a few weeks ago, I saw an old one on the side of one of the main roads just outside of Kentville with the old Metro Transit logo on it and everything. Looked like it was being used for random storage. I thought it was super cool, even if no one else did.
PDG:
That’s too crazy! I hope to see you again today.
qpmzwonxeibcruv:
I will leave it to PDG to reveal himself if he wants.
Ahh, sounds fair… I was actually in the middle of typing that while PDG posted his response (taking a bit longer because I was having lunch as well. Note the time PDG posted (1:33 pm) and when I posted (1:44 pm)).
I wonder if PDG also drives the #2
Well, no PDG driving me home yesterday. Should have guessed as much, we never have the same driver two days in a row.
Here’s hoping I see you again soon.
Considering my profession, I should not be surprised at how curious some people are about me. I’ll throw a couple things out there about my life.
I’m what is known as a spareboard driver. This means I have no regular shift, I just fill in for others, or I fill in spots that have no regular driver. I do something different almost every day, and I really could be anywhere, 6 days a week. I also never know what I’m driving until the day before, just a general idea of the hours I’ll be keeping. While the OT money is great, the hours and lack of ability to plan anything takes some getting used to. Lucky for me, I have someone at home who is very understanding of my variable schedule.
Once I make the switch back to having a regular shift, I’m not making it public on LTWWB because I don’t want this happening:
Person X: Hey, are you PDG? I heard he drives the 1.
Driver who is not PDG: Are you drunk?
or this
Person X: Hey, are you PDG? I heard he drives the 1.
PDG: Yes, I am, and what do you post as?
Person X: Oh I don’t post, I just read your stuff, it is awesome/is horrible/makes me want to tear out your eyeballs and stuff ’em down your pants, so you can watch me kick the crap out of you!
Anyhow, as it is now, I can be open about what I’ve done because it has no bearing on what I will do. Not so when I do the same routine week in and week out.
The run you saw me on LIH is a rush hour run that gets done every day, but isn’t part of a
shift, so it doesn’t have a regular driver. You’ll see different drivers on it until at least when the schedule gets updated next (in November).
And to Q: Though I love fishbowls, the avatar is the bus from Speed doing a sharp corner.
Cool, I loved that movie! Interesting that it’s the “33 Downtown” and we also have a “33 Downtown” here (from Tantallon of course). When I was a kid, I wanted to be a bus driver when I grew up, so I rode Metro Transit often.
About the identity thing, I understand the need to remain anonymous, but I’m sure there is enough information that you, I, and many other people have put up here at various times that can make almost any of us easily identifiable should there be someone reading through here that already knows us. All our posts are logged, after all (look at what ‘kay’ is going through right now, hah). Not that I have many enemies to worry about or anything. Not that many.
Hey PDG, I won’t ‘out’ you so no worries there. And, I have agreed with all your posts (and Q for that matter), so I don’t feel the need to tear your eyeballs out.
I never intended the post to be about this. I just wanted to say hi to the hottie driving my bus that day.
😉
Then consider myself flattered, and the matter laid to rest. I leave it up to you, and anyone, as to whether to say hi or not. Just be sure it’s me, lol.
Hi PDG!
I hope you’re the really nice driver I get sometimes on the 17
Was there an old-timer house-cleaning at Metro Transit? Bus drivers as a whole are younger, hotter and nicer lately.
Amen to that!