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badstar...today, I address The Idiots Who Ride Public Transportation...
1. If you must marinate in cheap "perfume", please do so AFTER you get off the bus.
2. Bathe.
3. If half the seats on the bus are empty, you don't need to share my seat.
4. If th seats are full and my backpack or other item is sitting on he seat beside me, don't sit on it. Let me move it. If I'm half asleep and oblivious, please ask me to move it.
5. Likewise, if I'm trying to move said item, don't sit on my arm.
6. Please don't continually snap your gum as loud as you possibly can.
7. If you use your cell phone, please don't use it in speaker mode.
8. There's a reason for headphones- and it's not so that you can provide music for the entire bus. I don't want to hear your Homey G-funk music over my own headphones.
9. Keep control of your spawn.
10. Conversely, little kids are...well, just that. Little kids. Don't scream and yell and threaten to be them because they dared to look cross-eyed.
11. If you only have to go 2 blocks, why are you waiting for a bus? Unless it's dangerously cold out and/or pouring down rain and there's supposed to be one along like...now, it's faster to walk. And if you wait for half an hour for a bus when you only have to go 2 blocks, you really don't have a right to yell at the bus driver for being late.
12. However, If someone's been waiting for a bus for over an hour and 3 busses should have been by in the time they've been waiting, and they comment about it to the driver who finally DOES show up, don't get involved and say things like "Shut up and sit down. Don't you think you should be grateful he showed up at all?" or I am well within my right to say somethign and ask in a polite and civil manner when a bus is a fricken hour late, making me late for work. I'm paying to ride this bus too.
13. Don't pass out religious tracts.
14. If you're sitting beside me on a crowded bus and it suddenly becomes very uncrowded, I'd appreciate if you moved to your own seat.
15. Don't stare at me. Don't say things like "Hey do you have a boyfriend or something."
16. I know I'm not exactly skinny, but I can still sit comfortably in a single seat. If the bus is crowded and I am forced to share a seat with someone 4 times my size, I'm gonna have to sit with one cheek off the seat. Or stand. If I'm already in the seat and you're the one who has to sit down with me, and you're 4 times my size, you're gonna have to do the same thing. Or stand. If I'm already sitting against the window, I'm moved over as far as I can. Don't attempt to move your entire rear end into a placethat it won't fit and smash me over farther when there's no place to go.
17. If I have to share your seat and you insist on sitting by the aisle, would you mind standing up long enough for me to sit down instead of just turning sideways?
18. DON'T try to grope me.
19. If you are riding with a lot of packages, shopping bags etc, please gather them together BEFORE the driver opens the door at your stop so as not to hold up the bus for 6 weeks before you hop off.
20. People fall asleep from time to time, yes. But I really don't appreciate it when your head repeatedly lands on my shoulder.
21. A special note to the bus DRIVERS...in driving the bus, you are responsible for the safety of the passengers on the bus, and making sure that you don't run into other vehicles, over pedestrians, off the road...you know, general traffic safety. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR YOU TO SPEND THE ENTIRE BUS TRIP HOLDING PERSONAL COVERSATIONS ON YOUR CELL PHONE.
1. If you must marinate in cheap "perfume", please do so AFTER you get off the bus.
2. Bathe.
3. If half the seats on the bus are empty, you don't need to share my seat.
4. If th seats are full and my backpack or other item is sitting on he seat beside me, don't sit on it. Let me move it. If I'm half asleep and oblivious, please ask me to move it.
5. Likewise, if I'm trying to move said item, don't sit on my arm.
6. Please don't continually snap your gum as loud as you possibly can.
7. If you use your cell phone, please don't use it in speaker mode.
8. There's a reason for headphones- and it's not so that you can provide music for the entire bus. I don't want to hear your Homey G-funk music over my own headphones.
9. Keep control of your spawn.
10. Conversely, little kids are...well, just that. Little kids. Don't scream and yell and threaten to be them because they dared to look cross-eyed.
11. If you only have to go 2 blocks, why are you waiting for a bus? Unless it's dangerously cold out and/or pouring down rain and there's supposed to be one along like...now, it's faster to walk. And if you wait for half an hour for a bus when you only have to go 2 blocks, you really don't have a right to yell at the bus driver for being late.
12. However, If someone's been waiting for a bus for over an hour and 3 busses should have been by in the time they've been waiting, and they comment about it to the driver who finally DOES show up, don't get involved and say things like "Shut up and sit down. Don't you think you should be grateful he showed up at all?" or I am well within my right to say somethign and ask in a polite and civil manner when a bus is a fricken hour late, making me late for work. I'm paying to ride this bus too.
13. Don't pass out religious tracts.
14. If you're sitting beside me on a crowded bus and it suddenly becomes very uncrowded, I'd appreciate if you moved to your own seat.
15. Don't stare at me. Don't say things like "Hey do you have a boyfriend or something."
16. I know I'm not exactly skinny, but I can still sit comfortably in a single seat. If the bus is crowded and I am forced to share a seat with someone 4 times my size, I'm gonna have to sit with one cheek off the seat. Or stand. If I'm already in the seat and you're the one who has to sit down with me, and you're 4 times my size, you're gonna have to do the same thing. Or stand. If I'm already sitting against the window, I'm moved over as far as I can. Don't attempt to move your entire rear end into a placethat it won't fit and smash me over farther when there's no place to go.
17. If I have to share your seat and you insist on sitting by the aisle, would you mind standing up long enough for me to sit down instead of just turning sideways?
18. DON'T try to grope me.
19. If you are riding with a lot of packages, shopping bags etc, please gather them together BEFORE the driver opens the door at your stop so as not to hold up the bus for 6 weeks before you hop off.
20. People fall asleep from time to time, yes. But I really don't appreciate it when your head repeatedly lands on my shoulder.
21. A special note to the bus DRIVERS...in driving the bus, you are responsible for the safety of the passengers on the bus, and making sure that you don't run into other vehicles, over pedestrians, off the road...you know, general traffic safety. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR YOU TO SPEND THE ENTIRE BUS TRIP HOLDING PERSONAL COVERSATIONS ON YOUR CELL PHONE.
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Date: 2005-02-14 06:59 am (UTC)yes your frustrated about waiting for the bus, but it is not going to be the drivers fault the bus is late. It's your right to comment to the driver as wasted of an effort that is going to be, what ever they are going to tell you still isn't going to make you on time and is just going to annoy the driver.
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Date: 2005-02-14 12:37 pm (UTC)the mta sucks and i'm paying to use it. yeah, certain things can't be controlled like traffic and weather, but othr things like people not doing their job properly can be. and if i find out that someone's screwing up, i'm going to call the MTA and complain. (Believe it or not, it's actually gotten somethign done before)
to much thought this early in the morning...
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Date: 2005-02-14 07:37 am (UTC);->
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Date: 2005-02-14 08:46 am (UTC)No complaints here.
It's all true. And if I wanted to think about it, I could probably help you make it longer.
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Date: 2005-02-14 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-14 03:32 pm (UTC)when you stop, "This ain't yo' bus" is not a useful response. Neither
is, when asked, "About where are we now" (because the bus driver
doesn't call out stops as he's supposed to), "We're not there yet."
24. Bus driver groupies...find a new hobby. The bus driver's job is to
drive the bus, not to make idle chit-chat with you. You're annoying
and need to purchase a life. (Do y'all have bus driver groupies in
your part of the world? We had 'em in Dallas, and we've got 'em in
Erie.)
25. It's a guide dog. It isn't going to bite you (but I might).
bus drivers and cell phones
Date: 2005-02-14 05:05 pm (UTC)http://www.mtamaryland.com/resources/contactmta/contactform.cfm
I don't know for sure if they are allowed to use cell phones on the job or not. My guess is that, for safety and insurance, they'd not be allowed to. And I'm sure they'd love to hear from you about drivers that do use them. But, heck, this is Maryland. Land of the Free and the Home of Entitlement Programmes.
Re: bus drivers and cell phones
Date: 2005-02-14 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-14 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-15 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-15 02:57 pm (UTC)