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I can't remember the last time I got so pissed off. I was angry the whole evening and night yesterday because some stupid bus driver in Markham made me pay another bus fare when I clearly had a transfer/proof-of-payment in my hand. So ridiculous.

So have these things ever happened to you? Bus drivers that grill you when you're riding a bus?

I don't ride busses, but how much is a fare that you are still angry about it? it seems like a waste of time and energy to me (although I am not an authority on how not to waste energy since you know I don't ride the bus)

Well having to pay for something when you don't have to. Thats what angers me, that and stupid bus drivers.

I can't remember the last time I got so pissed off. I was angry the whole evening and night yesterday because some stupid bus driver in Markham made me pay another bus fare when I clearly had a transfer/proof-of-payment in my hand. So ridiculous.

So have these things ever happened to you? Bus drivers that grill you when you're riding a bus?The bus drivers and bus 'service' in general in Belfast piss me off considerably almost every time I use a bus (which is fairly frequently). For the most part, the drivers are as unhelpful as possible, and the bloody things don't turn up on time on all but the most regular of routes. They're either late or so much too early that you've missed them.

No. But I was very angry at a stupid bus driver one time. He tailgated my pregnant wife for miles.
My attempt to discuss politely with him ended up with his face bloodied, the keys to the bus were thrown into a field and I still have his hat as a souvenier, adding insult to his injury.

No. But I was very angry at a stupid bus driver one time. He tailgated my pregnant wife for miles.
My attempt to discuss politely with him ended up with his face bloodied, the keys to the bus were thrown into a field and I still have his hat as a souvenier, adding insult to his injury.

Damn... where did this occur?

I can't remember the last time I got so pissed off. I was angry the whole evening and night yesterday because some stupid bus driver in Markham made me pay another bus fare when I clearly had a transfer/proof-of-payment in my hand. So ridiculous.

So have these things ever happened to you? Bus drivers that grill you when you're riding a bus?
Dare I say - I think you're frustrated and pissed about something a bit more important in your life than just an obnoxious and billigerent busdriver.
That incident was just a release valve, not the cause, for your anger.

Bus drivers can be fuckers. I love it when they ask for my school idea. Cause they're so sure I'm not a child.. Then I pull it out and they read it and don't say another word. Fuckers indeed.

You're by no means alone friend - I've yet to encounter a single 'nice' bus driver, and that includes the three year period during which i got the bus to and from school pretty much every day. They all seem to be old, fat, grumpy bastards.

For example one time we were all on our merry way home from school and one guy was being a bit rambunctious - nothing more than you'd expect from a 15 year old boy but oh well - and he got off a few stops before the rest of us. Then when it came time for the rest of us to get off the stupid bugger behind the wheel actually wouldn't open the door because he said he wouldn't let us off before someone owned up to being spo obscene! We told him that the guy had got off ages ago, but that didn't work; we tried pointing out to him that holding people against their will is in fact illegal, and that didn't work, so in the end someone jsut pushed the emergency open door button thingy and we all jsut strolled off. Stupid bloody bus drivers.

I usually don't ride buses

I can't remember the last time I got so pissed off. I was angry the whole evening and night yesterday because some stupid bus driver in Markham made me pay another bus fare when I clearly had a transfer/proof-of-payment in my hand. So ridiculous.

So have these things ever happened to you? Bus drivers that grill you when you're riding a bus?
Drivers in the GTA all seem to run in perpetual jackassory mode.

I once asked for a transfer because I forget to acquire one at York Mills (and Eglinton Station - as that was my starting point) where I boarded the bus from, and I was late. The driver basically told me to piss off.

Other passengers tried to offer me tickets, but, I felt bad about taking it.

I wound up beating the driver at his little game. I got one of the passengers who had just boarded to ask for a transfer, which he gave that person who then gave it to me.

No. But I was very angry at a stupid bus driver one time. He tailgated my pregnant wife for miles.
My attempt to discuss politely with him ended up with his face bloodied, the keys to the bus were thrown into a field and I still have his hat as a souvenier, adding insult to his injury.
Let me guess, you let him off easily? :D

The drivers around Denver seem fairly well-behaved except for their lamentable tendency to regard yellow traffic lights as suggestions and stopping at red lights as optional if you're within, oh, 100 feet of the intersection. But then again, that's true of most drivers here, so I guess I shouldn't pick on the bus drivers, even though their vehicles could roll over me and my Subaru and hardly notice the bump.

Actually I only had an incident with a bus driver once in all my time riding the bus here in Milwaukee, it was when we were on layover, and I forgot to ask for a transfer, and I go up and ask for one, and the bus driver all asks me when I got on, and how much I paid...when I was the last one who got on..=/ but other than that, most drivers ive had were really helpful, and friendly for the most part.

This thread has made me think about the changes Ive seen in the way busses interact with traffic here over the years. Somehow over time the drivers have evolved from angry homocidal asphalt maniacs to respectful and respectable safe professional drivers. I wonder how this was accomplished?

This thread has made me think about the changes Ive seen in the way busses interact with traffic here over the years. Somehow over time the drivers have evolved from angry homocidal asphalt maniacs to respectful and respectable safe professional drivers. I wonder how this was accomplished?

Mind control.....

This one bus driver I've had when getting the bus to school in the morning (walk home in the afternoons) is such a grumpy git. Once I needed to pay £2.50 for a fare as I was going somewhere else other than school. All I had on me was a £5 note. He starts going on about how the company doesn't take note (which is a lie as other drivers do) so I let him go on until shut up, smiled cheekily and said "I'm a paying customer so give me the change or I'll contact your boss who just happens to be my friends dad." The friends dad bit was lie but he went pale and gave me my change. :D

Damn... where did this occur?

in New York state.

I could go off on a 5 year rant about one particular bus driver, but I wont.

I'm over it.

I've never been angry at a bus drive because of one event.

When I was in my early teens, my friends and I used to drink quite a bit.

I once got on a bus, off my face, and the driver said 'where are you going love'.. and all I said was, 'take me home'... 'ok, but WHERE is home?'.. so I told him, and he actually went off his normal route to make sure I got to the closest stop to my house. Luckily there weren't many people on the bus because it was late, but I thought that was very nice of him, because I'd have thrown me off for being intoxicated.

Let me guess, you let him off easily? :D

As easily as I could. I started by talking, he escalated into an insulting argument and then decided he was going to eject me physically from his bus.
He learned a lesson the hard way.
And I sweated it out for several days because there were witnesses and he was hospitalized.
Not a case I wanted to come foward on and give my version of what happened.

As easily as I could. I started by talking, he escalated into an insulting argument and then decided he was going to eject me physically from his bus.
He learned a lesson the hard way.
And I sweated it out for several days because there were witnesses and he was hospitalized.
Not a case I wanted to come foward on and give my version of what happened.
That's a story for the grandkids!

That's a story for the grandkids!

Not really-I'm not proud. My intentions were to tell him what he had done and maybe make him aware- He rode just a few feet off of my wife's rear bumper for several miles along the shore of a lake where she couldnt pull over an let him by. He even stopped to drop someone off,then caught back up.
I'm not the type to call the bus co to make a complaint or the police-at that point.
He chose the stupid method and at the time, I had very little patience and a temper that was just beneath the surface. She was 8 months pregnant and really upset when she got home and told me. I got in the car and caught up to him in the next town where there is a commuter lot before the last stop.

This thread has made me think about the changes Ive seen in the way busses interact with traffic here over the years. Somehow over time the drivers have evolved from angry homocidal asphalt maniacs to respectful and respectable safe professional drivers. I wonder how this was accomplished?
I'd wager all the homocidal maniac bus drivers moved to Hong Kong.
Here we have two types of bus: large (nearly all) double decker ones that do long trips across town, and small 16-seater ones that are little more than vans that do little trips around a particular suburb.
The mini buses have drivers who lack all sense and sensibility and are seemingly suicidal and homicidal at the same time.

A month or so back, one driver was found to have broken several road laws all within a few minutes. The worst ones were: driving the wrong way up a one-way street, overtaking on the wrong side of the road into on-coming traffic, running a red light, speeding and stopping on the motorway to let a passenger off. There was also failure to indicate, not using a seatbelt, and some other ones.
Using the minibuses can be quite a life-affirming experience (assuming you're still alive at the end of the trip).

yay for living in a place with free buses:)