Here´s the essence of why riding public busses is a traumatic experience:
- Their Robo Cop doors are flippin' death traps. Ever got sausaged in there? That's the punishment you get for not managing the suicidal jump out on the street within 0.2 seconds!
- The people! Feral thugs and killer nerds are forced to mingle for 20 minutes. A ticking bomb.
- Anarchy in the aisles! The narrowness causes panic in riders who think they can't make the exit in time unless they waltz over you.
- Trying to get a hold by grabbing the loops hanging from the ceiling can dislocate your shoulder.
- The person next to you. There are several types. I especially dislike two of them: The ones that make some kind of pole-dance-turn to approach you ass-ahead, which in 99% of the cases results in the person missing her/his designated seating area and landing on your left/right arm and the ones that touch down on the right place but with their 100 pound bag placed directly on your lap.
- The MASSIVE potential for airborne disease mayhem.
- It is a MUST that there be one person in the bus that takes a twisted pleasure in exposing his / her private life to EVERYBODY in the bus by making intimate phone calls while at the same time assuring that absolutely everybody in the bus can follow.
- This is true for Austria: The busdriver is the person that hates you the most. And he leaves no doubt about that.
2 Comments:
Oh, poor fragile brittle Verena got pushed around in a bus a few times.. If only we could all move around on our own personal mini-clouds!
Tough it out! So what, if bus drivers in Ottawa behave like they're transporting potatoes. It's not the worst there can be. In Campinas, for example (he-he, keep rubbing the Brazilian theme in), they not only behave like they're transporting potatoes, they also seem to be treating this process as a competition - who transports potatoes from point A to point B faster. Every time I ride a bus I feel like one of the characters of 'Turbulence'.
Moreover, I was told that in Rio bus drivers are called 'pilots'... As in 'Formula 1 pilots'. Can't wait.
Awwww, POOR MAX,
it must be horrible in Brazil...hey, do you want to switch? i come down there and ride the bumpy busses while you can enjoy the quiet OC Transpo system...btw i am not talking about OC Transpo in particular, this is the story of life long suffering ;-)
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