You stand in a bus stop serviced by more than one route. You stare at your cellphone, you read a book and smoke a cigarette, or you sit in the shelter texting. You don’t bother to make any indication that you want the bus that is approaching. The bus driver slows down but you stand motionless and the driver makes a split second decision that you don’t want his/her bus. They drive away and suddenly you go ballistic! Has it ever occurred to you that you should make eye contact or raise your
hand to let the driver know you want the bus? Shake your head if you are waiting for another bus on the stop to come by. The drivers can’t read minds so they rely on body language. Stop wasting everybody else’s time that is already on the bus. You would be driven by in a hearbeat if you were in London, Berlin, Paris or Rome. —Gus Who Rides The Bus
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2011.
I always feel bad when the driver stops at bus stops and no one at the stop gets on the bus 🙁
I’ll usually step back or shake my head if I’m the only one at the stop and a bus comes by that I’m not waiting for. When the bus i want does come I usually move closer to the curb and get my ticket ready 🙂
You think it would be common sense for everyone to do that PK but as we all know, common sense is rather uncommon…
The bus sluts have never figured out the etiquette. Every day people ask the driver “does this bus go to……..”, what the hell do you think? You showed up at the bus stop randomly hoping it was going in the direction of your destination…….bus sluts…arrrgh
i love these fucking dildoheads. they think they are so important, to get every fucking mail on earth, or constantly update their fucking stupid facecrackbook page.
don’t they realize, that the fucking world doesn’t run on their precious time? i just wish these fucking assholes, both male and female, would pay a tiny bit of attention, to the fucking real world, for once.
zi don’t get fb updates … “… is showering, then pooping, then picking up g-ma, then cooking, ttc!brb, bbt, ttyl, bbw, lol!” ugh.
also, i hTE THE BUS, but if some’s gonna ask the route then who cares.
I’m guilty of this on occasion… but don’t go ballistic at m[r U s]. bus driver since I do realize I’m the one that was waiting for everyone else to get on… but I’m the only one who wants to. I usually get on last when I can…. which screwed me over in snowpocalypse since I kept getting denied entry.
and Koda, yes… that is what people do on occasion.
I know I’ve shown up late for a bus and wouldn’t mind checking if other routes get me where I need to go. I haven’t memorized every fucking route yet. sorry….
bus sluts…lol. The batch of people the bus attracts just keeps getting worse.
Getting on last? Frig that. Why the hell would you do THAT? Get the fuck on the bus and let everyone else fend for themselves.
It’s cool to be selfish, weeoo! Friggen nerds and losers with their selfless actions.
When it comes to public transportation, you don’t fuck around.
Screw you OB….or should I say mr bus driver.
I’ve actually thrown snowballs at the bus & the damn thing hasn’t stopped !
Back when I used to live in Dartmouth,over 10 years ago… getting some of you bastards to take your foot off the gas (or diesel) pedal & stop just didn’t happen. The 61 was really bad for it.
Throwing snowballs at someone is the way I get people to agree with me.
I agree with this bitch, but sometimes the drivers can be assholes, too. I’ve been on busses before where the driver just drove completely by a stop as someone had been standing there waiting for it and staring him down.
I do hate it, however, when you intentionally back away and do pretty much anything and everything you just listed to let the driver know you’re not getting on the bus (even so far as shaking your head), and then they stop and bitch at you for not making it clear… that’s happened to me at LEAST twice, and it’s a piss-off.
In the UK, in less populated places than London, you have to stick your arm out for the bus. Otherwise, you can make as much eye contact as you like and they’ll just drive on by. It’s a good way to avoid that awkward moment where you think you might have psyched the bus driver of some bus you only just realized wasn’t yours.
makes sense, i see folks do that at crosswalks. sticking your arm out is fun
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I see this happen so often. It makes me laugh. Their loss. My gain- of humor.
I just got back from Australia a few months ago. And anyway, in Sydney that make you hail your bus. It took me a little while to get used to it, but overall I think it works better.
Hey Trinket, if you’re feeling homesick (I know, you’re from here) check out the youtube recording of LandDownUnder by the Red Army Choir. I posted a link on the Love Side, this morning.