Hey Duh, why do you get on the 80 Sackville (clearly displayed in the destination sign area) and when we arrive at Cobequid terminal you come to the front of the bus and ask when we will be arriving in downtown Halifax??? DUHHHHH!!! When I ask where you got on you tell me on Joseph Howe. That goes for you too DUH #2, when we get to Scotia Square you ask when we will be going to Bedford. Why the fuck do you get on buses without looking first to see where the fuck it’s going? Destination signs are there for a reason. A bus route always has two directions DUH, and if you’re not sure ask the driver. Fuck people are either very stupid or illiterate or both. DUHHHHH!!!!! —Wish I Was Driving the Bus to BC
This article appears in Sep 6-12, 2012.
It’s the #80 …. ’nuff said!
wheels buddy, is that you? there’s morons and then there are stupid morons. being a driver, i guess you get your quota in the first hour or so, daily? i have an idea who you are, but not for sure. we should meet sometime. you know my email, right?
It might be someone who has no sweet clue as to the layout of HRM.
Duh.
wow! It’s Old Home Week! Welcome back, Crayons!
You’re a real tolerant cuss aren’t you OP!
haha, thanks vastie, i haven’t heard that in a while
If you don’t know the layout and (obviously) even which way you are going…
you may want to ask BEFORE you get on the vehicle moving you to the unknown.
Asking for help doesn’t make you stupid..NOT asking when you truly need it does.
I did dis the other day and boyee wuz I PISSED!! There are 2 buses on each route with the same number. For example, the number 1 to Spring Garden and the number 1 to Darkside. Different places, same number – and if the person isn’t payin attention – like their face is in a law text and their mind is somewhere else, it’s easy to get on the wrong bus. I was so pissed it added an extra hour to my travel time. I began cursing under my breath and the other passengers looked at me like I was a crazy byitch. SORRY fuckers, but my heels be bleedin an’ I wanna get home & smoke a jizzoint.
case in point.
there’s that subtle humour you mentioned zZz.
Ha!
If said person wasn’t from here than it makes sense – transit in other cities actually has a bus going in the opposite direction marked as a different number.
This always pissed me off. Not because people didn’t know where they were going, because that happens a lot, especially in September when people are new here. What pissed me off was that the people who end up on the wrong end of town seem to be afraid to ask the driver or admit they may not know where they’re going. Often, they’ll wait half an hour or more before they realize the increase in tree density means they’re going the wrong way. I always told passengers the same thing when it did happen, that next time you are not 100% sure of where you’re going, ask, and if you think you’re going the wrong way, say something ASAP so that you may catch an earlier bus going the other way.
Yes, the driver may be annoyed by your questions, but trust me, they get a LOT more annoyed when they have passengers left on their bus who could have prevented their plight by asking a simple question.
On that note, you only need to ask the driver where the new DMV is once. Trust me, he/she has not driven by it yet.
as a blind person, I have to tell you all, the buses here at least HAVE the final Destination on the sign…
in Toronto, the routes are shit, some have as many as 9 letters, or branches of the SAMER frigging route number, you gotta know your route ‘branch letter’ or your screwed… oh btw, did I mention, they CHANGE THE BRANCH LETTERS OFTEN!!
Holy Crap! talk abotu nasty trips I’ve done, getting lost there..
I live on a route, that when going one way, says the number of the route & the direction name, Montenbello, & the other way, says Alderny, VERY EASY……
same with the 10, 66, 80, 90, 2, 4, 9, 7, 52, 8, & several others in this city…
now, to just get METROtransit, to get their heads outta their asses about the route layout at the new bridge Terminal…. ARRRGGGGHHH!!! Who ever created this mess of a thing, DOES NOT RELY ON TRANSIT!!!