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Come on bus driver, you are getting paid enough to ensure the stupid people are told to move to the back of the bus. And no, I don’t care that another bus will supposedly will be there in a few minutes when there is plenty of room, if only dummies would move from the front to the back. GAHHHH! —Seriously
This article appears in Nov 7-13, 2013.
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In your opinion we are getting paid enough, guess again motherfuck. The city could never afford to pay us enough because you people are too dumb and don’t have a clue. Open your own trap and tell the cattle to move to the rear.
what is ‘hollar’ ?
the monetary unit of ho-land?
I think that bus drivers are actually paid to – ‘SHOCK’ – drive a bus. Granted to do that safely it is sometimes necessary to ask/tell people to move to the back, but only because so many morons act as if they have just arrived from Planet Duhhhh, and it is their first time on a bus, even when they have taken them for years. Yes, the dummies should move to the back but it is not the driver’s job to make like a deranged teacher and scream at them to do so all the time. Bad enough with people now hitting their 30s, let alone younger folks, who like perpetual kids arrive on a bus complete with a backpack to haul their stuff, 2 or more electronic entertainment devices, and a coffee mug/water bottle/sippy cup to slurp from as they would likely perish if they can not drink something, or look at the screen of something for a few minutes. No wonder they are too stunned to move to the back of the bus. If there was true natural selection in an urban setting they would be soon gone, however they seem to be multiplying like rabbits. So someone must be putting down the gadgets long enough to procreate.
my personal pet peeve, people walking around with a cup glued to their hands. in stores, on public transit. slurp slurp slurp. dribble dribble, and the wrinkled forehead stunned-ass look they get while sucking on it.
maybe same as someone’s antithesis to redheads.
getting people to move to the back to make more room benefits only the passengers, or the wannabe passengers. not the driver. unless they are trying to stand in his line of sight to the door. so why the frig should he tell people to move back? it would be a courtesy. and given the nasty nature of some passengers (people who complain about others saying ‘thanks driver!’) why the heck should he?
I was on a bus in Vancouver once where no one would move to the back, everyone was clustered right up front (and holding their fucking coffee cups) despite the driver nicely asking, desperately asking (because he really really wanted to pick up those poor buggers standing out in the rain who could not get on the bus) and he finally just got up and walked off the bus. told everyone he refused to go anywhere unless they moved the fuck back.
Sigh, when I saw “Hollar” I thought this bitch would be about gay guy’s MSN tag lines from 2008…. 🙁
A DUMMY WISH
“If only dummies would move from the front to the back.” Seriously
So why were you still in the front? It’s no good just wishing. You’ve got to move, you dummy!
(Hey! I ran the board again. I’m hot!)
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
“The city could never afford to pay us enough…” – Obviously. That’s like an alcoholic saying the bottle is never big enough – Ya greedy fuckers!
“If there was true natural selection in an urban setting they would be soon gone, however they seem to be multiplying like rabbits.” – The Captain just discovered this gem (apparently someone doesn’t understand Natural Selection – No worries tho!)
Natural selection dictates that those best suited to survive in any given environment will do just that, survive.
As far as The Captain can tell, these problems being discussed are the everyday norm, and those of us outside these behaviors had better get with the program or Natural Selection will have to do something about us pesky nonconformists!
Vote Captain!
Captain put your stupidity where your mouth is. OOH, it’s already there.
Oh, Burn!
Now go learn how to drive a bus!
You know Wheels, The Captain would have a lot more sympathy for you guys if Metro Transit…
-Hadn’t nearly killed me three times (Yes, a hairs breadth from being literally killed)
-Caused the City undue stress with your shut downs (Yes, undue)
-Didn’t have THE WORST transit routes and schedules I’ve ever seen in a city (Yes, I COULD design better)
-Didn’t have some of the most entitled drivers, who (in the majority of my experiences) couldn’t be more undeserving of that entitlement. (Yes, there’s a few awesome Bus Drivers, and when you encounter one the experience is so memorable because it happens once in a Blue-Fucking-Moon)
Captain, if you had a clue as to what you were talking about you would have no excuse. So I guess that’s why I must excuse everything you are when it comes to any topic related to Metro Transit.
Yours truly
Excuse…?
I’ve heard Metro Transit’s excuses, both the published excuses and the ones you tote on this forum.
Unless you mean The Captain’s excuse… in which case you’re being “incoherent”, as MM would say. Do I need an excuse for being hit by a bus? Do I need an excuse for knowing some very simple rules to organizing transit routes? Do I need an excuse to realize that you’ve got nothing serious to complain about with regards to your employment, and instead should just shut-up and enjoy the great benefits that are allotted to you?
Hey now Cap… he has every right to be as dickheaded and fucking assholish he wants…
I just wish he wouldn’t be so liberal about it.
btw, nice fine points.
every driver I seem to get lately has a foot of lead.
OF COURSE if you jam on the gas you’ll be going so fast you warrant to jam on the breaks too. Problem is… there are some of us STANDING and holding on for dear life… some with actual, nagging arm injuries no less…. sweating our asses off because (in your tee shirt) you’ve got the heat cranked and 60 of us schlubs are crammed together like emperor penguins and all wearing winter jackets…
a 20 minute commute should not produce sweat dripping down the crack of my ass in late fall/winter.
Get hired as a MT driver Cap’n, stay working as a MT driver for at least 5 years without getting yourself fired 2 or 3 times, quitting, going insane, or committing murder and then we’ll talk and see what you think now K?
here’s a thought. there’s a reason why some jobs get a hard union, with good benefits and what appears to be high pay to someone in the bottom echelons of private enterprise.
because the job itself sucks. and no one would do it unless they got that stuff.
plus it takes someone who can keep their eye on the prize (pension at the end of it) and keep doing it day after day after day without quitting to do something more personally fulfilling.
I had a girlfriend once who made cheese for a major co named “K”. the job was mind numbing factory work maintaining the cheese slice making machinery and her bosses were assholes. but it paid well, benefits were fabulous (including medical which, in the states, is worth a LOT) and she had been doing it for almost 20 years. she would have preferred to spend her days doing other things, but this job paid the bills and let her travel, pay off a house, get lots of dogs, rescue etc etc. her sister would berate her often about her high paying job with all the benefits, spite and jealousy. her sister would quit a job the second she got miffed. and many jobs were ‘beneath her’. and so many jobs would entail getting dirty, or sweaty, or demanded such long hours, or, or or. so sister did not have a paid off house, did not have medical coverage for herself or her children (because her husband shared her views on what work was worthy of his time) but would still gripe about her ‘lucky’ sister who had such a great paycheck (spelling it the murrican way)
so some people can/will work crummy jobs to get a good paycheque. and some people can’t/wont make the internal bargain. some people can’t get either. some people get both.
but most jobs look pretty easy from the outside looking in. doesn’t mean they are.
Well said good dog Molly.