Best Bus Story Ever (1 Viewer)

[pete]

I am often tempted to do this.

He gets great enjoyment from it.

Lately, he's taken to ringing them before he even leaves work.

"Is the bus going to turn up today? Thank you."

 

[krystal]

this seems like a fine idea to me.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

A bloke i work with gets that bus (from Dawson Street?). If it doesn't turn up on time, he rings Bus Eireann from the bus stop and stays on the line until they tell him where the bus is.

It shouldn't be too delayed at that stage - ringing them sounds deadly
The one I get is due to arrive in Naas at 5.30pm but the earliest it has ever come is 5.40pm and is usually close to 6.00pm by the time it arrives. Not much fun leaving work and standing around in the cold for 30 mins. In their wisdom the previous bus arrives in at 4:10pm so the 5.30pm bus is the one that most people who want to goto Newbridge / Kildare get,

Most weeks I email some guy in Bus Eireann the times of its late arrival and always suggest that they put the timetable back by 30 mins so the bus has a chance of turning up at a reasonable time to serve the office workers in Naas.

After a brief honeymoon period of civilised yet bland correspondence on Bus Eireann's part the emails now go unanswered.

 

[avernus]

I got a 746 to the Airport today, in preference to the meandering 16A which was also at the stop - guy said to me "why de hell you not get de otha bloo bus?" deadly serious. angry. In response I, of course, took out a revolver and emptied his head all over the cabin in my imagination.

 

[Cormcolash]

Yes, I'm in the Africacorps, the Boers, yes.

 

[Cormcolash]

I got a 746 to the Airport today, in preference to the meandering 16A which was also at the stop - guy said to me "why de hell you not get de otha bloo bus?" deadly serious. angry. In response I, of course, took out a revolver and emptied his head all over the cabin in my imagination.

No, you only do that when a car salesman is taking you for a drive and talking about how much he wants to ride your wife.

 

[shidheat]

I am often tempted to do this.

The buses have GPS on them so they're actually able to tell you exactly where the bus is.... Apparently anyway. This from a bloke I know who rings up Dublin Bus when the bus doesn't turn up.

Bus drivers are a mixed bag. You remember the wankers a lot easier. I try to not to talk to them where possible. Weekly bus tickets are great for that.

To be honest though, it's the punters on the buses that annoy me more than anything. Scumbags smoking down the back. School kids throwing shit at you. Fucking school kids in general. Endless mobile phone ringtones. Blaring walkmans. etc. ad nauseum.

 

[dudley]

people smoking on the bus is my personal worst gripe, fucking hate it.


had an idea a while ago about a text service a while ago. if someone is smoking on yer bus you text a certain number with the route you are on. dublin bus notify the guards and nab and prosecute the fuckers at the next stop.
i'm sure the resulting fines would make it more than economically viable.

 

[george mcfly]

we have the nicest bus driver ever on the 111 route. he's always in a good mood and even waves at you if his bus passes when you're walking down the street. a genuinely nice guy

another guy on the 7 route is really cool and always waits if he sees me legging it up my street to the bus stop in the mornings

see they're not all bad!

 

[HarpoonFace]

THIS is the best Bus story ever !!!

About 6 years ago 2 lads I school with were out drinking in town one night, and had no money to get home. So strolling along Abbey St., flagons in hand they decide to take a double decker bus. (Don't know which number).
They then proceeded to take the 41 route home, and fucking amazingly got caught whilst going through the airport !!!!!!
The guard at the initial checkpoint waved them through, though they were caught at the terminal.
Apparently one of the guys brothers was due back from holiday that night, so he decided to go into the airport to collect him. So one waited in the bus whilst the other went into the terminal..i think he plane was due in like 40 mins or something. They then fell under siege from armed police in the Airport , and that was that.

Maybe some of you read the article in the Sunday World about them when they tracked them down to their homes in Lusk and St.Margarets respectively? Made them out to be dangerous lunatics...total out of control nutjobs..when in fact they are actually alright fellows, just a bit silly. Though i guess the story makes them seem otherwise.

 

[Anthony]

Criminals heh, salt of the earth.

 

[Napalm]

On the 77 one time, a new driver ( one of our cousins from the asian sub-contintent ) take's a right turn off the greenhills road into an industrial estate, get the bus stuck when he realise's where he is, asks for directions outta the estate, 15 mins later we re-appear on the greenhiils road where he tells everybody to get off the bus as he has to go somewhere else.

 

[mc moley]

us hardcore legends langdon beck were coming back from a gig once on the 84 and were mad drunk and started buzzin with these other lads....anyway boys will be boys and we ended up drawin willies alll over the bus. there wasnt many people upstairs at all so we got a bit carried away.
when we were driving through bray however a gaurd saw our bassist Wedge drawing a huge 3 foot willie on the window so the gaurd followed the bus to the bus station. anyway there we were being damn cool and drinkin our tins and drawing willies when to our suprise FIVE gaurds stormed the bus and threw us off it with our gear. anyway they took our names for everything from vandalism to drunk in public to indecent exposure or something like it (the female gaurd saw ross' dick when he was taking a piss after he got kicked off)
so we hoped in a taxi and got the expensive thing all the way back to kilcoole where we bet the bus back and wouldnt let him pass.....the end.

 

[therealjohnny]

The driver of the 38 was one of the nicest people in the world!
She used to always have a friendly good morning and a bit of a chat as you got off the bus.
She would see me coming and wait at the stop as I negotiated crossing 4 lanes of traffic. One morning I was running late and waved to her as the bus was passing. I went into a shop, took my time, flicked through the newspapers. When I came out I saw she'd pulled the bus over to wait for me!This is in traffic in the city centre now!

Not sure how everyone else on the bus felt, but that morning I thought she was the nicest person I've ever met!

Here's to you nice bus driver woman, wherever you are

 

[Ex-User (250)]

people smoking on the bus is my personal worst gripe, fucking hate it.


had an idea a while ago about a text service a while ago. if someone is smoking on yer bus you text a certain number with the route you are on. dublin bus notify the guards and nab and prosecute the fuckers at the next stop.
i'm sure the resulting fines would make it more than economically viable.

snitch.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

no - i definitely think the pigs need to start focusing on really important things like smoking on busses. maybe they could reintroduce hanging instead of fines?

andrew

 

[Ex-User (250)]

no - i definitely think the pigs need to start focusing on really important things like smoking on busses. maybe they could reintroduce hanging instead of fines?

andrew

huh, yeah, what's next, the privatisation for the gardai? 'seems like they're concentrating on taking our money right now, not catching kiddy pron pedlars. i'm looking at you, mr. colley.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

no - i definitely think the pigs need to start focusing on really important things like smoking on busses. maybe they could reintroduce hanging instead of fines?

andrew

huh, yeah, what's next, the privatisation of the gardai? 'seems like they're concentrating on taking our money right now, not catching kiddy porn pedlars. i'm looking at you, mr. colley.

 

[LMD64]

The driver of the 38 was one of the nicest people in the world!
She used to always have a friendly good morning and a bit of a chat as you got off the bus.
She would see me coming and wait at the stop as I negotiated crossing 4 lanes of traffic. One morning I was running late and waved to her as the bus was passing. I went into a shop, took my time, flicked through the newspapers. When I came out I saw she'd pulled the bus over to wait for me!This is in traffic in the city centre now!

Not sure how everyone else on the bus felt, but that morning I thought she was the nicest person I've ever met!

Here's to you nice bus driver woman, wherever you are

urrr, yeah, he female 38 drivers are nice. some of the men are total fucking pricks.

but i have to agree with Dudley, smoking on the bus is the WORST POSSIBLE OFFENCE in my book and should be therefore punishable by stripping the skin off the perpetrator(s) bodies, rolling them round in salt and vinegar, disembowelling them and stringing their carcasses up by their intestines out the back of the bus in a jolly festive fashion.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

urrr, yeah, he female 38 drivers are nice. some of the men are total fucking pricks.

but i have to agree with Dudley, smoking on the bus is the WORST POSSIBLE OFFENCE in my book and should be therefore punishable by stripping the skin off the perpetrator(s) bodies, rolling them round in salt and vinegar, disembowelling them and stringing their carcasses up by their intestines out the back of the bus in a jolly festive fashion.

that's a really gay thing to say.