Whenever I am on the bus especially the lower floor buses, I can’t stand it when a bunch of people are standing and there is plenty of vacant seats in the back of the bus. Also another thing is stupid people just standing in lower floor area; and when the driver tells you stupid people to move all the way to the back, you are just stupid, dumb and lazy; you move only a couple feet ahead of you and not to the top part of the bus.Another thing is that whenever the lower part is full they will only stop for those who have rung the bell for the next stop and they wont pick up anyone at the stops waiting for that bus. For all of you dumb people listen to the drivers they’ve had longer days than you, so please be nice and kind to them, and LISTEN next time.
This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2008.
The bus doesn’t end at the stairs, you CAN stand up in that area. You’ll find more people wise up in the summer and head on up lest the alternative is to stand body-to-body with Sir Sweats-a-Lot. In the winter, the driver has to pull teeth to get people to stand up there.
Speaking as someone who is vertically challenged, going to the back of the bus to stand is hard to do because they only have the overhead bars to hold on to which I can’t reach. At least in the middle of the bus, if you don’t get a pole, it has the plastic straps that hang down from the overhead bars. This could be a reason why a lot of people don’t make their way to the back.
when you stand up at the back part of the bus, us 6’4 folks cant see shit. I have no idea where i am and cant see out the window when i go to the back. Fuck that.