Re: [Fwd: ] <WARNING: Colourful language inside>

[Mr Simpson <mdoyle@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

David McLoughlin wrote:

> You can't class all your passengers as fwits and drongoes on an email
> from one loon.
>
> If you wonder why some passengers have a low regard for transport staff,
> look no further than what happened to my daughter this afternoon. She
> caught her usual bus home from school, but the driver refused to stop at
> her stop and in fact carried on for five more stops until the shouting
> of distressed children finally got through his thick ears. My daughter
> (12) was dumped three kilometres away from home but had the sense to go
> to a friend's house and phone us. I drove through the rush-hour traffic
> 25 minutes each way to collect her, and finally got home at 5.05pm. I
> established the full details of the bus and driver from my daughter and
> phoned the bus company (Stagecoach) to complain and got an answerphone
> saying they only take calls between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday (the
> buses being a seven day, 6am-midnight business).
>
> By Monday when I phone again at 9am I will be very, very angry.
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand

hehe
aah the joys of the school buses.. I always caught school specials run by government
buses whilst at high school and I always thought about how amazing it was to punish
some poor kid by not letting people off until X stop because some other group of
kids was mucking up! Most cases on my bus it was the kids who were going with the
bus as far as the terminus, who would persistently ring the stop bell, much to the
dismay of the driver, who would get sick of stopping at every stop without anyone
getting off. He would decide he was an express an ignore the bell even if you
personally asked him to get off, insisting that you genuinely wanted to get off! I
was even involved in an interesting diversion - the driver decided that he may as
well take a few short cuts, since he wouldn't be stopping anyway...

Homer