Let me tell you a story:
I was innocently sat down on a seat jamming to all time low, (like you do) and a gang of kids from another school got on and decided to invade my personal bubble.
I look out the window for two minutes and the child's butt is on my shoulder! I was all like "oh hell no!" which mother do you know tells their kid it's okay to put your butt on another person's shoulder? Do they go to leave in the morning for school and their parents yell out as a reminder "remember honey, it's okay to violate someone's shoulder with your butt"
Like everyone, I have a bubble, and if you enter it then you better make sure you like the feeling of frozen fish because that suckers gonna be all over your face. I'm 90% sure, bus rides are just a competition to see who can get your shoulder the furthest up their butt.
My second problem with public transport is waiting for them to show up. Okay, so Imagine, you're waiting in the cold for the school bus. There is no one around, your hands are numb and you look like one of those garden gnomes. Eventually the bus decides to make an appearance and out of no where, everyone else does too. So now it's looking like Alex gaskarth has walked down the street and all of a sudden so have a million other psycho teenage girls, waving their phones on the air. And you normally can't cross them, so you just let yourself get pushed and squashed trying to get on the bus, then pushed and squashed on the bus because there are no seats, I mean the designer really screwed up there though.
I try to be extremely nice to everyone on the bus and so I give up my seat to those who need it. Who else would give up their seat for the elderly, if I didn't? Definitely not the other lesser classy people around me.
Now, I was being a genuinely nice person and gave my seat up for an elderly lady, but some rude child took it and then told me to shut up when I was ranting (yes in public) about how I was trying to be nice, and how father Christmas wouldn't hate me, in the end I was rather rudely trodden on, so I guess this rant was actually aimed at the little booger that doesn't understand manners and genuine kindness. (Fuck you buddy.)
Although saying that, seating, is also a personal irk of mine. If I give up my seat for you, sit in it because I am not embarrassing myself and sitting back down, nor an I exerting unnecessary energy for you.
Can we all agree, Buses don't exactly smell nice here in England? And They sure as hell don't smell any better when people board and Starr waving their fried chicken in the air, and suffocating me and everyone else victim to the fumes. It isn't very smart that the stupid bus windows are way too high for an average height person to reach, I mean do you expect every person on the bus to be 5"6? that is just ridiculous.
Nothing angers me more then when you're already on the bus and it decides to stop early, so there you are, tired and angry from school, lugging an unreasonably big bag on your shoulder and now you have a decision. Either walk, or freeze waiting for the next bus. I mean is it really that Much effort to drive a little further just to get me home? I don't care about the other people, but it's much more effort walking!
WHY is the time between each bus so long? I'm going to let you in on a secret:
a) I hate exercise
b) I hate buses and people
which means I'm not going to voluntarily run for a bus that should quite rightfully wait for me, do bus drivers see the poor souls running and think "oh it would be funny if I start driving now!" and then laugh once they've driven off?!
SOMEONE THREW A BRICK AT MY HEAD! okay, it wasn't an actual brick but it was a Nokia, so yeah technically a brick. it hurt (well duh its not going to tickle is it? is what I bet you're all thinking right now. to be fair so am I...)
Seat hoppers. Seat hoppers. Seat hoppers. Sit down, or get off. Find a seat, and stay sat down. Don't move as soon as another seat is available especially if you're already sat down! But do you know what's worse than seat hoppers? Seat hoggers. I may as well not sit down if you're going to take up the whole seat. My butt has rights, and I have the right to sit down on a seat that I was sat in first!
My pet hate on buses though has to be window openers / shutters. If the window is open, leave it open. Don't shut it just to annoy me because I probably wanted it open to remove the odd odour buses have. (Its sort of Like people and mud) or if you want it shut, ask me first! Don't just lean over me to shut a window that I wanted open. Learn your place on the bus, if I was sat there first the position of the window is my choice.
