Hate using buses after 4pm

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Postby Josef » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:56 pm

glasgowken wrote:
crusty_bint wrote:all i got was kicked in the head by a pack of bus drivers


Lies, you expect me to believe they actually got out of their cabs ? ::):


I did recently get on a number 9 in Renfield Street where a ned (sixteen stone-ish, Old Firm T-shirted) spat at the driver (late fifty-ish, ten stone weakling), who proceeded to get out of the cab, chase the guy out on to the street, wrestle him to the ground and sit on him until reinforcements (the driver of every passing bus for the next ten minutes - who said worker solidarity doesn't exist any more) and the Polis arrived.

Moral of the story - dunno, try and persuade any ned who might be bothering you to spit at the driver?
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Postby glasgowken » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:20 pm

Brilliant :D Wish I could have seen that.
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Postby Josef » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:27 pm

I was well impressed too. Mind you, it did take me half an hour longer than usual to get home :)
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Postby scaryman2u » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:20 pm

crusty_bint wrote:all i got was kicked in the head by a pack of bus drivers


Crusty.. How did you get into that situation ? :wink:
I`ve had a few run-ins with them myself but not to the fisticuffs stage ::):
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Postby mr moto » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:19 pm

and do not forget the smell of piss and vomit ,as well as various other body odours from some passengers on late night buses . i use my car or my motorbike for transport, and if i am going out for a drink then i will either get a taxi or walk home. i have not been on a bus for years now ,and i see no reason to use one .
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Postby glasgowken » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:46 pm

Is it just me, or are buses getting more packed recently.
Less buses on the service I suppose.
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Postby Fat Cat » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:51 pm

glasgowken wrote:Is it just me, or are buses getting more packed recently.
Less buses on the service I suppose.


Spot on.

Is it just me, or are the seats absolutely manky. I lothe to actually sit down now.
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Postby escotregen » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:54 pm

Not really strictly on-topic ‘cos it happened before 4 o’clock; this afternoon in fact.

Scene: at Govan bus terminus I’m on the wee local bus 121 sitting at the stand. I recognise the driver as one of the regulars. Another, smartly uniformed, driver comes the door and speaks in what sounds like a Polish accent to our driver: ‘Are you wanting to reverse?’

Our driver looks truly uninterested and silently shakes his head.

Polish driver: ‘You know your reverse lights showing?’

Our driver looks truly uninterested and shakes his head.

Polish driver: ‘Oh I thought you’d want to know’.

Our driver looks interested and… wait for it… shrugs his shoulder.

Polish driver smiles in a confused way and goes back to his bus at the rear.

Later on the short journey I get up for my stop. You can plainly see a big black wummin and her wee kid and pram running for the stop. They are just short of the stop with the kid in front, waving his arms about trying to do a ‘bus stop’ signal.

The driver keeps up his speed and stops just that bit further on from the stop. He opens the door for me and I just know that if I get off he will close the doors pronto and be away. I stop astride the door and turn and look at him and say something like.. ‘Here’s a wimmun running for this bus’. Driver glowers at me and shrugs shoulder. Big black wummin makes it onto bus with kid and pram and declares her thanks for the driver for waiting. Driver says nothing, doesn’t even shrug shoulder.

I thinks later of this little bit of a cosmopolitan Glasgow scene… where the ‘native’ driver was the only character incapable of speaking even one monosyllabic word of English.
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Postby gordon » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:55 pm

Yeah, the random stains are quite worrying, as is the debris left by some boggin' wean having a Gregg's sausage roll rammed down their throat by their sister/mother (both look about the same)

Its not nice.

Although thankfully the hot weather looks like its drawing to a close, bringing an end to the need for breathing apparatus to avoid the smells of the 40 when you're coming home from work.....
Malcolm Tucker is always right.
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Postby glasgowken » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:00 pm

I used the 40 the other day, never NEVER again :roll:

As for stains, I prefered the old vinyl seats, much easier to keep clean.
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Postby Fat Cat » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:11 pm

escotregen wrote:I thinks later of this little bit of a cosmopolitan Glasgow scene… where the ‘native’ driver was the only character incapable of speaking even one monosyllabic word of English.


Cosmopolitan Glasgow! I read this in our local papers and wonder where the hell they're talking about. Bus drivers must attend some kind of grumpy school. Talk about have a nice day. It's all they can do to even open a door to let you on.
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Postby My Kitten » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:14 pm

Fat Cat wrote: It's all they can do to even open a door to let you on.


Most of them struggle with that. I was on two buses last night that smelled suspiciously pish laden. It got to the point that I was paranoid, but noticed I was the only soap user on the bus (both supposidly posh buses 38 and 44).
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Postby Fat Cat » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:26 pm

My Kitten wrote:[(both supposidly posh buses 38 and 44).



Is that the post 38 that goes to Garthamlock where patrons shout "does this bus go tae the Bar-L mate?"

Eau de Pish seems a popular fragrance in Glasgow.
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Postby My Kitten » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:39 pm

Fat Cat wrote:
My Kitten wrote:[(both supposidly posh buses 38 and 44).



Is that the post 38 that goes to Garthamlock where patrons shout "does this bus go tae the Bar-L mate?"

Eau de Pish seems a popular fragrance in Glasgow.


heh indeed, im at the posh end (cough newlands/giffnock/eastwood piss artists)
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Postby Fat Cat » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:42 pm

My Kitten wrote:
Fat Cat wrote:
My Kitten wrote:[(both supposidly posh buses 38 and 44).



Is that the post 38 that goes to Garthamlock where patrons shout "does this bus go tae the Bar-L mate?"

Eau de Pish seems a popular fragrance in Glasgow.


heh indeed, im at the posh end (cough newlands/giffnock/eastwood piss artists)


Ooooh, get you.
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