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Some of you may have heard me giveing bus drivers a hard time, calling them cunts all of them, not even a redeming feature in the lot of them.

Which was one again adequatly prooved to me last night.

I'm on the bus home from my brothers house after a nice game of cards, it was about 11:30, and I managed to get the last bus home.

So I'm approaching my stop, and I hit the bell a whole one stop before my actual stop. The bus stops, the driver looks around, I wave my hands and call sorry mate wrong one.

The bus starts up again, and despite me ringing the bell again, and again, the fucker takes me three stops past mine, as some kind of a lesson I guess, in fact I have a feeling he wouldn't have stopped there, if I hadn't gotten up and umm had words with him.

Bus drivers I fuckin' hate em. What about you, who is the worst of the worst?

I regularly catch buses and don't really have much of an issue with bus drivers.

I regularly catch buses and don't really have much of an issue with bus drivers.

I'm guessing you don't live in London?

Stupid lick-arses/brown nosers in work. At least the ones with ability can walk the walk when its required.

I'm guessing you don't live in London?

Birmingham all right for you?

I end up getting taken a stop to far every now and again on one of the buses I catch home, but it's only a minute's walk down the road so I don't really care.

I end up getting taken a stop to far every now and again on one of the buses I catch home, but it's only a minute's walk down the road so I don't really care.

Same here.

Some of you may have heard me giveing bus drivers a hard time, calling them cunts all of them, not even a redeming feature in the lot of them.

Which was one again adequatly prooved to me last night.

I'm on the bus home from my brothers house after a nice game of cards, it was about 11:30, and I managed to get the last bus home.

So I'm approaching my stop, and I hit the bell a whole one stop before my actual stop. The bus stops, the driver looks around, I wave my hands and call sorry mate wrong one.

The bus starts up again, and despite me ringing the bell again, and again, the fucker takes me three stops past mine, as some kind of a lesson I guess, in fact I have a feeling he wouldn't have stopped there, if I hadn't gotten up and umm had words with him.

Bus drivers I fuckin' hate em. What about you, who is the worst of the worst?

are you sure that you dont have a reputation with the bus drivers that has made them want to abuse you?

arent you distinctive looking enough that maybe the guy has heard about you, recognized that its the YOU that everyone at the bus drivers lounge complains about, and decided that you were fucking with him and punished you for it?

Birmingham all right for you?

Ahhhh Brum, the home of the happy northener! I guess bus drivers in Brum are more freindly than bus drivers down here?

are you sure that you dont have a reputation with the bus drivers that has made them want to abuse you?

arent you distinctive looking enough that maybe the guy has heard about you, recognized that its the YOU that everyone at the bus drivers lounge complains about, and decided that you were fucking with him and punished you for it?

Naaa that couldn't be it. I'm not the complaining type, but I have given them a few mouthfulls in the past, but I'm sure there is no big anti Peeps conspiracy from the bus drivers of London.

Nope the bloke was being a typical bus driver, and just acting a prat.

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Naaa that couldn't be it. I'm not the complaining type, but I have given them a few mouthfulls in the past, but I'm sure there is no big anti Peeps conspiracy from the bus drivers of London.

Nope the bloke was being a typical bus driver, and just acting a prat.

they must be unfirable civil servants. nothing gives a person more of a sense of entitlement to abuse than being completely secure in his job.

Some bus drivers piss me off. Too many times I've actually had to direct the driver round a route because he doesn't know it or makes a wrong turn. Surely they're taught the routes BEFORE they get on the bus?

I end up getting taken a stop to far every now and again on one of the buses I catch home, but it's only a minute's walk down the road so I don't really care.

Naaa nor do I, what got me was the guy was obvisouly doing it on porpuse. I tell bus drivers, every single one of them(bar one) are cunts. Ask the black woman running down the road to catch the bus, only to dave the driver pull of at the last minute, just because he's a ****.

Or ask the young family getting on the bus wih foldup pram and two kids in tow, to have the bus driver pull of at top speed before the kids are saftly seated, just becuase he's a ****.

Or ask the under 12 year olds who obviosuly look 12 years old, but are refused entry to the bus because they happen not to have their ID cards with them, just because, yep that's right, he's a ****.

they must be unfirable civil servants. nothing gives a person more of a sense of entitlement to abuse than being completely secure in his job.

Heh I do sorta get why they are like that though. Driving in the London traffic all day, having tight and I mean tight route times to stick by, and then having to deal with arseish customers, I do sorta get it. But fuckem, just coz some little shit has wound you up, don't take it out on me, and really if you job is to ferry Joe Public around in a big fuck off hunk of metal, and you let the stresses of the job out whilst on the job, then perhaps you should not be allowed to drive around such a freakin killing machine.

Highway police. As stubborn and as unreasonable as they come.:(

Highway police. As stubborn and as unreasonable as they come.:(

I object to that! You only get pulled over when you've done something wrong. Or we're really bored, and you did something stupid. :p

Rolling squid;13824808']I object to that! You only get pulled over when you've done something wrong. Or we're really bored, and you did something stupid. :p

Biased!:mad:
J&K!;)
I don't know about the highway police in other countries, but the one here in Spain sucks ass. So rude... so so rude...

Some bus drivers piss me off. Too many times I've actually had to direct the driver round a route because he doesn't know it or makes a wrong turn. Surely they're taught the routes BEFORE they get on the bus?

No, not always (at least where I'm living) and besides they're trying to do their jobs properly and get you to where you're going in a timely manner and it pisses you off? Give them a break.

Naaa nor do I, what got me was the guy was obvisouly doing it on porpuse. I tell bus drivers, every single one of them(bar one) are cunts. Ask the black woman running down the road to catch the bus, only to dave the driver pull of at the last minute, just because he's a ****.

Or ask the young family getting on the bus wih foldup pram and two kids in tow, to have the bus driver pull of at top speed before the kids are saftly seated, just becuase he's a ****.

Or ask the under 12 year olds who obviosuly look 12 years old, but are refused entry to the bus because they happen not to have their ID cards with them, just because, yep that's right, he's a ****.

Honestly, the way that you hound on about them and give them a hard time makes you, more than them, sound like a ****.

Some of you may have heard me giveing bus drivers a hard time, calling them cunts all of them, not even a redeming feature in the lot of them.

Which was one again adequatly prooved to me last night.

I'm on the bus home from my brothers house after a nice game of cards, it was about 11:30, and I managed to get the last bus home.

So I'm approaching my stop, and I hit the bell a whole one stop before my actual stop. The bus stops, the driver looks around, I wave my hands and call sorry mate wrong one.

The bus starts up again, and despite me ringing the bell again, and again, the fucker takes me three stops past mine, as some kind of a lesson I guess, in fact I have a feeling he wouldn't have stopped there, if I hadn't gotten up and umm had words with him.

Bus drivers I fuckin' hate em. What about you, who is the worst of the worst?


People who ride bikes in the MIDDLE Of 228 when there is a perfectly good shoulder thats just as wide as a lane to ride on.

Most bus drivers on the Santa Cruz metro service are pretty nice. One is a complete asshole though. He drives the express campus bus, which only stops at a few places.

One time I was on said line, with this jerk driver, and the girl standing next to me was sweating even though it was quite cold out. She looked very ill. As we were coming up to a stop that this bus line didn't stop, she asked him if he could just let her off. He said no. She then asked with a very emphatic please, stating that she needed to get off the bus because she was going to throw up.

He just pointed at the bus's trash can.

Ahhhh Brum, the home of the happy northener! I guess bus drivers in Brum are more freindly than bus drivers down here?

Birmingham is really not north.

I end up getting taken a stop to far every now and again on one of the buses I catch home, but it's only a minute's walk down the road so I don't really care.

Same here. I've never really had a problem, but then I rarely use the bus as it's only a few mins walk to the DLR from where I live. I have far less patience with the passengers than the drivers. For some people the idea of head/ear phones was just something intended for other people.

You DO have bus stops, that is an improvement from where I live.

Oh, and those buses DO have ringbells. Here you need to shout "Stop, please!"

Have you seen a bus going at 120 kph with a full charge of passengers inside?

Have you been in a bus where the driver is listening to reggaeton at full volume?

Come to Latin America and you will know the TRUE heinous bus drivers.

One threatened once my younger male brother with a machete because he complained about the bus smelling like garbage.

Wowsers! No machete incidents here, and the bus drivers are generally very nice. They're pretty much unfirable, too, so they don't really have a motivation to be as nice as they are. I've run across a few exceptions, but I write that off to there being bad apples everywhere.

As for no-goods, I've never had a cable installer come to my house who wasn't late, skeevy, and weird. Maybe that's just a Comcast thing.

Medical insurance personnel. They can all go to hell and die.

Medical insurance personnel. They can all go to hell and die.

they must be unfirable civil servants. nothing gives a person more of a sense of entitlement to abuse than being completely secure in his job.

No, that just means we get abused even more.


'They'.... 'they' get abused more.

>.>

a Bus driver drenched me today by smashing into a big puddle at warp factor 9 and ruined not only my directions to where I was going but also my birth certificate etc (also one failed my mates diving test by swerving out in front of her)

however my hate is reserved for KFC staff because there is a reason why women don't work there for long

Birmingham all right for you?

your so close I can feel you

Petty authority, in all it's detestable forms, is the worst of the worst. It starts as hall monitors in elementary school and continues all the way up to things like middle management or housing association presidents. Give someone with insecurities and low self esteem any authority, and it's usually a recipe for a class-A pain in the ass.

What part of London is this Peep?

Horrible bus drivers? I've got one...

So, its a fairly late night. I have to take the bus to/from college, and basically was at class all day because of the lovely schedual of courses I had to take, with nice three hour breaks between classes, and a 1 1/2 hour bus drive to/from campus (from the start of the route to the end.) I got to my first class around 8-ish, ended around 7.
So, around 8 o'clock, about a hundred feet from the last bus stop, the driver pulls off to the side of the road.
Great, I figure. The bus broke down or something.
I had my headphones in, but I noticed he was saying something. I figured he was talking on his radio or whatever.
After a few minutes, he still hadnt moved, but was talking, rather loudly, I noticed. I was at the back of the bus and could hear him over my music.
So, I walk up to the front of the bus out of curiosity, to ask him whats going on.

The guy's praying. Had some sort of cap on his head and was bowing to the wheel of the bus while shouting in what sounded like Arabic (I could be wrong, of course, my knowledge of Arabic is somewhat limited). At around 8:45, he decided to stop the bus, a short distance from the bus stop to pray.
I couldnt get off because, for whatever reason, he had chosen to disable the button that opened the doors.

Of course, it only took ten minutes, but seriously, the guy couldnt have taken the thirty seconds to drive to the bus stop, or at least let me off the bus so I could've walked to the bus stop.

Honestly, the way that you hound on about them and give them a hard time makes you, more than them, sound like a ****.


Heh well thats a fair comment, I mean you don't know me nor have seen my troubles with bus drivers. Honestly though I'm not making this up, all of them(bar one) are nasty, mealey, jobsworths, impatiant, little ignerant fuckers, and yes I hate them with a passion.

Birmingham is really not north.

Heh I'm a Londoner, and I say anywhere above Watford is North!

What part of London is this Peep?

SE London, I livein the wonderfull Borough of Lewisham.

Horrible bus drivers? I've got one...

So, its a fairly late night. I have to take the bus to/from college, and basically was at class all day because of the lovely schedual of courses I had to take, with nice three hour breaks between classes, and a 1 1/2 hour bus drive to/from campus (from the start of the route to the end.) I got to my first class around 8-ish, ended around 7.
So, around 8 o'clock, about a hundred feet from the last bus stop, the driver pulls off to the side of the road.
Great, I figure. The bus broke down or something.
I had my headphones in, but I noticed he was saying something. I figured he was talking on his radio or whatever.
After a few minutes, he still hadnt moved, but was talking, rather loudly, I noticed. I was at the back of the bus and could hear him over my music.
So, I walk up to the front of the bus out of curiosity, to ask him whats going on.

The guy's praying. Had some sort of cap on his head and was bowing to the wheel of the bus while shouting in what sounded like Arabic (I could be wrong, of course, my knowledge of Arabic is somewhat limited). At around 8:45, he decided to stop the bus, a short distance from the bus stop to pray.
I couldnt get off because, for whatever reason, he had chosen to disable the button that opened the doors.

Of course, it only took ten minutes, but seriously, the guy couldnt have taken the thirty seconds to drive to the bus stop, or at least let me off the bus so I could've walked to the bus stop.

Now thats what I'm talking about!

Ahhhh Brum, the home of the happy northener! I guess bus drivers in Brum are more freindly than bus drivers down here?

They tend to be quiet polite and friendly, even if they don't understand you.

Birmingham is really not north.

Not at all.

Most bus drivers on the Santa Cruz metro service are pretty nice. One is a complete asshole though. He drives the express campus bus, which only stops at a few places.

One time I was on said line, with this jerk driver, and the girl standing next to me was sweating even though it was quite cold out. She looked very ill. As we were coming up to a stop that this bus line didn't stop, she asked him if he could just let her off. He said no. She then asked with a very emphatic please, stating that she needed to get off the bus because she was going to throw up.

He just pointed at the bus's trash can.


what a jerk... But all the bus drivers I have are thankfully nothing like that.

They tend to be quiet polite and friendly, even if they don't understand you.

Yes, now forgive me if I ofend or make a massive generalisation, but in my experiance most Brummies I have ever met have been insanly happy people. Hahah or of course it could just be that they seem that way when measured up against most Londoners?

You DO have bus stops, that is an improvement from where I live.

Oh, and those buses DO have ringbells. Here you need to shout "Stop, please!"

Have you seen a bus going at 120 kph with a full charge of passengers inside?

Have you been in a bus where the driver is listening to reggaeton at full volume?

Come to Latin America and you will know the TRUE heinous bus drivers.

One threatened once my younger male brother with a machete because he complained about the bus smelling like garbage.

For some reason I find the end point a bit funny.

a Bus driver drenched me today by smashing into a big puddle at warp factor 9 and ruined not only my directions to where I was going but also my birth certificate etc (also one failed my mates diving test by swerving out in front of her)

however my hate is reserved for KFC staff because there is a reason why women don't work there for long



your so close I can feel you

Its funny how many people say they can feel me, are you enjoying it too?

Yes, now forgive me if I ofend or make a massive generalisation, but in my experiance most Brummies I have ever met have been insanly happy people. Hahah or of course it could just be that they seem that way when measured up against most Londoners?

Most Birmingham people I see these days are chavs :( that or stressed out working class/middle class people. Idk how things where with the ones you met but things seem to be getting grimmer...
Though the people in the office where I'm currently doing my work experience are really friendly, happy and talkative :)
Yes I am slacking off on NSG rather doing the work they set me :D

SE London, I livein the wonderfull Borough of Lewisham.

Well, if you're going to live sarf of the river...

Some nice views of Canary Wharf though.

On an overnight journey in India, we asked the bus driver if he could turn down the music that was blaring from the speakers as we couldn't sleep.

'Sure', he replied, 'of course, I have it this loud so that I can't sleep either you know'.

That was a fun journey.

Not.

Well, if you're going to live sarf of the river...

Some nice views of Canary Wharf though.

Sarf is proper London though innit!

Naaa nor do I, what got me was the guy was obvisouly doing it on porpuse. I tell bus drivers, every single one of them(bar one) are cunts. Ask the black woman running down the road to catch the bus, only to dave the driver pull of at the last minute, just because he's a ****.

I see them wait about as often as I see them leave, and they tend to usually be more likely to leave in the CBD. But I suppose like everything it's different in different places, in fact I hear that there are slightly more problems with the buses further south, but not by that much.

For some reason I find the end point a bit funny.

It is funny to hear the tale, indeed. I bet it wasn't funny when it happened. You just don't expect a bus driver to reach for a long bladed instrument when you complain about something.

It's like a McDonald's cashier pointing a gun at you because you told him you got the wrong order. It's totally unrealistic and fantastic.

It is funny to hear the tale, indeed. I bet it wasn't funny when it happened. You just don't expect a bus driver to reach for a long bladed instrument when you complain about something.

It's like a McDonald's cashier pointing a gun at you because you told him you got the wrong order. It's totally unrealistic and fantastic.

Well i daresay it was a bit scary to have a random bus driver pull out a machete on you.

To me:
Bus drivers: some pricks who think that their bus license gives them the right to be arrogant. But they are easily enough put down by being nice to them. (Nothing pisses of a grumpy bastard as much as cheerfully saying hello)

Taxi drivers are the worst I believe! (atleast around here). As a good story for this: I was out one night, and was calling it an early night because I had a shift in the morning and had to be sober enough and awake enough to drive there. Anyway I manage to get a taxi pretty quickly (grabbing it as other people jump out ftw!) and got in. The driver was an Indian bloke, and was quite incapable of speaking English. Anyway, he asks me where I wanted to go, I told him my address several times before he finally understood. And starts pulling out. Now, this was actually new years eve so there was a bit of traffic around. When he was pulling out he almost got us hit twice. Then befor he is even pulled out he starts fiddling with a bloody gps thing. I told him "Don't worry, I know where I am going" of course, that didn't stop him and he kept on trying to enter my address (asking me again). So after 3 more near accidents, he finally gets it in. And starts completely ignoring it! He seriously headed the opposite direction and didn't turn around until I told him that he was going the wrong way. After an illegal U turn (almost crashing again) we were on our way. It was the scariest taxi ride of my life. He got lost several times, and finally ended up at home.
Now, usually I am pretty generous when I give out tips (not that common in Aus) but he is the first taxi driver I have given no tip to in a long time.

Powertrippers: I deal with annoying powertripping control freaks all the time in both my jobs. It drives me crazy, because I'll be more experienced (and bare legal responsibility) and they will start telling me what to do and how to do it. Problem is that it is often people who if they complained about me, I would get fired. So, I have to make do with secretly hitting them with a baseball bat in my head.

however my hate is reserved for KFC staff because there is a reason why women don't work there for long

Why is that? I worked at a KFC during high school and during university (about 6 years total) and when I worked there the staff was usually 60-70% female, many of which had been there for years.

Why is that? I worked at a KFC during high school and during university (about 6 years total) and when I worked there the staff was usually 60-70% female, many of which had been there for years.

Last few times i've been to KFC there have been a few female staff members but not many and certainly a majority.

Last few times i've been to KFC there have been a few female staff members but not many and certainly a majority.

It must have something to do with the demographics of where I live. When I was in high school it was probably because the males were working in the oil fields, but they've since dried up so I don't know what would cause it now.

It must have something to do with the demographics of where I live. When I was in high school it was probably because the males were working in the oil fields, but they've since dried up so I don't know what would cause it now.

Well I've been to KFC's in several different cities (including one in Spain) and it seems to be the case of women being a minority.

Ahhhh Brum, the home of the happy northener! I guess bus drivers in Brum are more freindly than bus drivers down here?

Birmingham isn't Northern England, places like Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool are Northern England. Brum is in the Midlands.

Also, the buses are bad in most major cities in the UK. When you get to smaller cities and towns the service normally improves significantly. Or that is what my experiences have been.

I greatly dislike the ones that fail at driving. I've had bus drivers that don't know how to stop and start gently and I'm taking the bus for about 10 mins each way so after a series of jerking stops and starts I end up feeling nauseous.

Lately I've lucked out though and got good ones. :)

...however my hate is reserved for KFC staff because there is a reason why women don't work there for long


OMG are you saying KFC is female people!! No wonder they have to keep the recipe secret if it involves a secret blend of herbs, spices, women employees...

Birmingham isn't Northern England, places like Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool are Northern England. Brum is in the Midlands.

Also, the buses are bad in most major cities in the UK. When you get to smaller cities and towns the service normally improves significantly. Or that is what my experiences have been.

Ohhhh yes it is!:D