This has been eating away at me since I have been forced to use a bus to get back and forth to my university 2 or so years ago, I don’t want anyone to get my opinion wrong so let me say something first.
I understand that if a bus is packed, jammed tight, with a limited amount of buses I have to move my bag, and let someone sit near me much to my displeasure because I am horribly anti-social and just hates the general public, but if the bus is damn near empty, I mean I clearly see 10+ seats open in front of me why do you freaks feel the need to try and sit near me, or rather SIT on my bag with my fragile netbook and fuck up my day?
I mean I don’t get it…don’t you enjoy your personal space? I know I do that’s why I sure as hell won’t move my bag or my crossed legs which are getting in the way of you sitting properly in the seat. THERE ARE DOZENS OF FUCKING SEATS FREE SIT THERE !!
I have seriously had it with cranky old 40 something year old hags and creepy, perverted old men trying to park there smelly asses near me when there are dozens of free seats. If you’re lonely, join a fucking club for other lonely people. And no standing there awkwardly for 5 minutes near my seat won’t cause me to move my bag for you. Glaring also is a failed attempt or talking to me when I have my headphones on won’t work.
And to the fat hag who decided to park her smelly ass near me, squishing me so much that it pinched a nerve in my arm, making it hurt like a bitch all week, while you attempted to interrupt me and my friends’ conversation FUCK OFF. It’s bad enough your massive ass cheeks of fat are squishing me, don’t even try to bother me and my friend. —Anti-social bus traveler
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2010.
Dear god, FAKE! Enough already. What is with people posting similar bitches, over and over. Is it an envy thing? A cry for attention?
Sigh. I take the bus a lot more now that I’ve sold my car, and it’s never been THAT bad on a quiet bus. Sure, when it’s busy, you’ve gotta deal with grossness.
OP, whether you like it or not, you’re not entitled to two seats….
if you don’t want people to sit next to you, dress a little more skeezy or get your stank on.
oh, and don’t sit near the doors, that’s where everyone wants to sit so they can get off the bus as soon as fucking possible.
I don’t like people creeping me when I’m on the bus either. Headphones don’t always discourage some folks. The problem as I see it is that I just look far too approachable, so it’s time to do something anout that.
You have one arse so you rent one seat from A to B. As you seem to be a bigger ass then perhaps you should pay twice the amount and get two seats….one for your arse and the other for your bag.
just because you took the extra seat, I would go out of my way to make you feel uncomfortable. I’d walk past half a dozen empty seats just to sit on your purse and see the look of total disgust come accross your face. After that I’d try and make small talk, which would only make you feel more uncomfortable 😀 HA HA
Somewhere there’s a rifle and a bell tower just waiting for the OB.
Just so long as it’s NOT mine. I reserved my clock tower six months ago – just waiting for the day. One of these days a real rain’s gonna come, gonna wash all the scum off the streets. Heh Heh Heh. Oh No – I’ve said too much.
oh, you poor baby, my heart goes out to you, like fuck it does. if i pay to get on a fucking bus, and you have your smarmy little ass taking one seat, then you fucking know, that i will be taking the empty one. don’t like people sitting next to you, again, poor baby, but too fucking bad. if i pay, i will sit where i want to sit,barring the driver’s lap, unless she is a good looking female that the other one. that is life, and if you gave me a hard time about taking said empty seat, then the one you were sitting in would be empty too. because i would throw your sorry little ass off at the first stop that bus came to.think i would, try me if i ever take a bus.
If there are no two seaters free, I’ll make sure to cozy up next to you, OP. Don’t wanna move your bag? Well I’ll ask once, and if I have to ask again, my ass is likely going to be the death of your cheap ass netbook.
I can’t STAND entitled fucks like you. No one gives a shit that you’re anti social. Get some fucking therapy if that’s the case. Empty or not: it’s P-U-B-L-I-C/M-A-S-S transit, not your personal ride so stfu or walk to school.
Also, I question the validity to the claim that you go to university, given your lack of distinction between “their” and “there”.
I’ll call fake too. I’ve taken the bus a whole lot and whenever it’s empty people always sit far away from each other until it fills up. OP is just trying to justify taking up two seats by grossly exaggerating.
You’ re in a hell, and you’re gonna die in a hell, just like the rest of ’em!
Made me laugh Ivan
I’ve seen older men do this on the bus before a few times. Once back when I would take the 18 out to MSVU two young gals were sitting at the front of the mostly-empty bus on the right side. An older gent (like later 50s or 60s) got on the bus, looked around first, saw the girls and opted to sit directly next to them. No empty seat in between but right next to them like he was their BFF. Even I had to chuckle at that for a moment but I could respect a gal’s want to not have someone 3x her age park down next to her like he owned her.
And I don’t mind people sitting next to me on the bus. Just don’t tell me your life story if I’m minding my own business, listening to headphones, reading a book, resting my eyes or anythingl ike that. One bus ride in 2004 had a lady sit next to me for 20 minutes and in those 20, she told me her entire life story. I learned about her parents, the aunts and uncles she doesn’t like, the son that doesn’t talk to her, and her fake tooth. I don’t mind a chat with a stranger but I’m genuinely not interested in your life story.
Hey Hugo – I’m pretty sure that Travis Bickle was my Grade 9 Guidance Counsellor. *Narf*
Who cares what you want OP? Bottom line is you are on public transport which has always been a magnet for freaks and weirdos. If a seat is open then someone who has paid their fare can sit wherever they want, not just where you have decided is acceptable for your own privacy. If you want privacy, buy a car. Nobody just hops in my car and starts talking about their miserable lives.
Like everybody can just go out and buy a car now. That’s some amazing logic and advice lol.
Yup, it is expensive. But it’s worth it. I hate the bus for the same reason as OP, so I took my own advice 20 years ago and bought my first car. Best decision I ever made. Beep beep, outa my way fat.
Travis Bickle was your counsellor? Cool. Don’t suppose that Wizard was your history/philosophy teacher?
I usually sit on the three-seater benches near the front of the bus (I can get motion sick easily on the bus, so I like to be near the front) and sometimes I’ll have someone sit right next to me even if the bench opposite me is totally empty and my bench is empty except for me. It’s happened a few times and it’s really bizarre. Why sit in my bubble when you don’t have to be in anyone’s bubble?
Don’t make me mention my farting neighbour again
Fat DOES have his own car, SHITD. Quite a nice one he dropped quite a chunk of change on. Fat ain’t po’ but he empathizes with the lower socioeconomic folk, yo’.
It still, to this day, in my 28 years of using public transit, cracks me up how people think the bus is their own personal ride.
Minty Fresh: the side seats don’t make you want to toss your cookies? They sure make me wanna hawk my guts up! Try the front facing seats in the front. They help if you tend to get car sick.
Once I’ve paid my fare I’m entitled to sit on _any_ of the available seats, including the one your bag is on, whether there are “10+ seats open” or not.
I find that not many people are brave enough to sit beside a garden gnome with a raccoon face. OP should try looking very alien.
i would sit beside you newt…maybe one seat over^^^
PK: Strangely, I actually find the side-facing seats don’t bother me… what makes me feel ill is the additional bumping/jostling of the bus the further back I sit, so I try to sit as close to the front as possible to reduce that.
The front-facing seats towards the front are fine as well, but out of habit, I usually just take the first available seat I see.
As I drive by buses, it makes me laugh how sad and zombie-like the people on the bus look. Why put yourselves through that torture?
Ever notice how many cars ads are on the TV, in the paper, on the radio now? End of 2010 clearance events. Notice how you never see “Ride Metro Transit” ads?
I take the bus to work rather than drive because I don’t want to pay the ridiculous monthly fees for downtown parking. But, to be honest, I don’t find my usual commuting bus to be that much of a pain. I just zone out and listen to music.
If you’re in one of the few forward facing seats I will sit next to you if the seat is free. I have a bad back and riding sideways is painful. Again, sorry I’m screwing up your life because of your anti-social behaviour.
Even through all the LTWWB bus bitches over the years, I still sometimes wish taking public transportation to work were an option for me.
Sure, driving is private, but it can get old fast. With a bus you have a CHAUFFEUR and can do SOMETHING OTHER THAN DRIVING on your way to work!
Cue Stephen Harper Is The Devil telling everyone to just go get their own chauffeur. …just kidding. 😉
I agree that riding the bus isn’t very nice. I wish sometimes I was deaf.
You could put your bag by the window and sit by the isle.
Most people like the forward facing seats so sitting in a side facing seat may discourage people sitting next to you.
I like to sit at the very rear. Usually talkers face forward and I can’t hear them as well. The rear windows leak more so the stink of smokers disappates. (why doesn’t the coast have a spell checker)
So you’re anti-social, well fucking boo hoo hoo to you. If it’s that bad then drive, take a cab, or stay the fuck home. BTW, a little infor. There’s ove six billion people on this flying rock so you better get used to it.
I don’t take the Loser Cruiser, for the exact reason as the OP.