This actually isn’t a ‘metro drivers are dicks’ bitch that are famous for being on here. This is a passenger bitch.
I know, I know, I know you will find the public on public transit. I understand. There is nothing we can do about it. So… when dogs around the neighbourhood are barking because they can hear your earphones. When who ever you are talking to one your cell phone will still hear you if you hang up because you have one of those everyone gotta hear me voices. Or when babies scream and toddlers squirm it is gonna happen.
But there are things that just shouldn’t happen, especially on public transit:
prostitots: (13 year old girls who dress and act like prostitutes). Its not a mobile hotel room, stop making out with your gangster in training, loser boyfriend. You waited 13 whole years to be a skank, you can wait another 20 minutes.
I see men blow their nose on the bus and then look at the Kleenex, what are you looking for?
I have seen a woman yank off her shoe and start clipping her toenails on the bus… it was a little gross.
Even grosser was Saturday night. A woman, about 30 years old. started peeling large chunks of skin off the sun burn of her shoulders, balling them up and depositing them on the floor of the bus. The sun burn was there for a couple days. you really couldn’t wait to do that at home?
So public. annoy people on the bus all you want but try not to gross people out. It makes you look like a dirt-bag. —nick name in transit
This article appears in Jun 24-30, 2010.
yep, sounds like metro transit….
I have to ask though, on which route(s) did these travesties occur?
could it be that the ‘grosser’ population all congregate within the same areas?
and that you unluckily hopped a bus to/from there?
I’m learning towards no…. and that pretty much every route is going to have some odd-balls on it… just curious.
skin peeling…. ? toenail clipping… ? really, if you wouldn’t do it with company over to your flat, why would you do it on a bus?
God bless you Nick! You didn’t just hit the nail on the head; you shattered the beam.
On a crowded Number 1 pulling out of Hfx Shopping Center, on a Saturday afternoon, many, many years ago I overheard the following:
2 Sullen, black clad teenage dolts sitting on a lengthwise bench continued spitting on the floor of the bus every 30 seconds just like they had been doing in the shelter.
A young, working class lad in his mid-20s loudly told them “If you do that again I’ll throw you off the bus myself”.
Dolt “A” actually mumbled “It’s a free country. buddy”.
Buddy didn’t miss a beat and replied “It only seems that way because you’ve never paid for a fucking thing in your life”
The round of applause he got lasted a block and a half.
the prostitots are common, but toenail clipping that’s a new one
Oh yeah – thanks for prostitots – You made my day with that one, and I’ve been having a really GOOD day.
sure you are mr. vacation guy you. sigh…sorry i am cranky and bullish today. snort^^
Wouldn’t have you any other way Painey:
“No finer friend; No worse enemy”
Rawk, Rawk, Rawk.
SOOOOO glad I own my own car. The people on the buses you described are enough to make anyone toss their cookies.
makes me want to take offending object or person, and just drive it thru nearest window, into the street. keeeerist.
Ah yes, the passenger bitch, friend of the office bitch, the stupid bitch, the driving bitch, the this is my man bitch, the lazy bitch, the oblivious bitch, etc.
You know you can just look out the window, right?
Dgaf: this is true, but if the OP is a little insane when it comes to gross things, such as I am, then I want to know where this body excrement and skin shavings are ending up, as to avoid them.
Someone took a “#2” on the #1 about 2 months ago. Very gross.
The buses have no seats, all for the sake of gigantic baby carriages and wheelchair users that don’t exist.
If I have to climb over several baby carriages again I’m going to start stomping shit. See, back when men were men and toilets weren’t invented – the buses had seats! Yes! Seats! People with children in strollers, removed the child from the stroller and folded it up, prior to the arrival of the bus. Then they would get on the bus just like anyone else.
Take your fucking gigantic shopping carts disguised as baby carriages off the goddamn bus OK? The fact that Metro transit allows this is galling.
And open the goddamn windows when the AC is not on people! Even in winter these buses are saunas.
And the stupid cellphone ringtones… fuck you think I care that someone is calling you? Fuck off and die shitheads.
In quebec city the seats are fashioned in the front in a way that there are no side seats — there are two seats on one side facing front and only ONE on the other. That way people with strollers and carts won’t get in the way, and more people can fit on the bus because there’s more standing room.
There was once a 300 pound greasebag on the first two seats (and he had a bag with 9 cartons of eggs?) and the bus was cut off by a taxi, and the fat guy yells up to the driver, “That’s them damn Lebanese for ya.” The driver replied, “Nooo, I don’t think that has anything to do with it.” Then he hacked a looge. I got the fuck off.
Here are my reactions to those OP:
Prostitots: Hate em hate em hate em, but I’m not their father and as long as they’re wearing a top, I can say nothing about it.
Nail clipping: Not the best place for it, but if everyone on a bus wears shoes, this is a non-issue.
Nose blowing: They might be seeing what colour their snot is, or how thick. I’m guilty of this myself to be honest. As long as they properly dispose of their snot rags, I don’t care.
Skin peeling: Same as nail clipping.
what about the spitting pdg? oh wait that’s where the shoes come in. citizens: always wear foot covers when travelling about
Spitting wasn’t in the bitch, but I will say spitting to me isn’t acceptable on a bus. That stuff’s harder to clean up for one. For two, the other things may be selfish, but people generally don’t do it to annoy others. Spitting is something that is meant to disrespect when done indoors. Thus, anyone caught spitting on my bus will find themselves outdoors.
c’mon PDG…
make a decent spectacle… and thus anyone caught spitting on your bus will find themselves outwindows…
ewwwww, ewwww, ewwwww – I took the Ctrain this morning and some elderly chinese guy sitting across from me me decided it was a good place to pick his nose, look at the stuff, rolle it between his fingers and wipe it on his shirt and the window ledge.
Then he proceeded to use his fingernails to pick at his teeth and bring out more nasty stuff, once again he looked at it, rolled it and wiped it off.
Fucking gross. So an hour later I venture to the food court at the Sunridge mall for lunch and guess who is working the kitchen at one of the asian places… mr. hygiene himself. Fuck me.
Perhaps he was attempting to divine the future from a close examination of the contents of his nostrils. Should have asked him for some stock market tips.
LOL Ivan… betcha a lot of people got some extra gooey stuff in their pork dumplings at lunchtime.
Ooooh. That cherry sauce covers a multitude of sins and I don’t just mean chicken balls.