Have your Bus change ready

jacko

Dont know if it's just me or does anyone else find this really annoying. While waiting for the bus I always get the correct change (or bus card) ready so when thè bus comes I just hop on ...no problem....
Now heres the problem ... there's this dumb little kid that gets the same bus as me every morning and without fail he's always fumbling in his pockets for change causing a holdup.... but here's the clincher .. his mother gets on with him and she always does the same.

Why can't people have their change ready before stepping onto the bus ... not being sexist or anything but its women who are the culprits 99% of the time ... fumbling in their purses for the coppers ...It obviously pisses the drivers off no end judging by the amount of sighs that can be heard coming from them.

some may think i'm being petty over a small thing but it just does my head in

fletch

Totally agree with ya....thats why I love gettin trains...none of that bul!sh1t. Suppose its like the way women go shopping and then get a complete shock when they get to the till and realise that they actually have to pay! Like that was totally unexpected!

Third_Echelon

I have to say that really pisses me off as well...

Surely they should be thinking, 'ok im about to get on a bus, maybe i should have my fare ready'.. but nooooo.... :eek:

Kêrmêttê

I'm female and always have my money ready at busses and checkout tills.
But then again I'm too efficient for my own good!!

parsi

One thing that always amused me arriving in Heuston and going to get the bus was the sign on the bus saying "Exact change only" but no sign telling you the fare.. were all us people up from the country supposed to be psychic ?

bandraoi

Similiar thing in airports,

Lads you know that when you get up to the check in desk, they'll ask for your passport and your booking code, so have the damn thing in your hand ready to give them not buried somewhere at the bottom of your bag.

tony 2 tone

But then there is the other side to having your change ready, I have found my self getting the money together the night before.......thats getting a bit too scary....or anal.....

simu

parsi wrote:

One thing that always amused me arriving in Heuston and going to get the bus was the sign on the bus saying "Exact change only" but no sign telling you the fare.. were all us people up from the country supposed to be psychic ?

Oh aye, sure all country people have magical leipreachán friends. :-)

As for the change, I always have mine ready, I even put the coins in order of size and have them all facing the same way (heads on top). And I'm a woman so there!

bandraoi

parsi wrote:

One thing that always amused me arriving in Heuston and going to get the bus was the sign on the bus saying "Exact change only" but no sign telling you the fare.. were all us people up from the country supposed to be psychic ?

Here's a little tip that I find very useful - ask for a ticket to Dublin City Centre when you're buying your train ticket in Galway or Limerick or wherever, then you're covered for the 90 bus too and it's cheaper.

JP Mulvano

The worst is the people who get to the top of cinema Q's and debate what film they'll go to.

F&*Ksake I mean come you've been in the Q for probably 10 minutes and now you decide. I think I should be allowed to Knee-cap these kinds of people. you know who you are!! and look out for the angry individual behind you growling.

simu

tony 2 tone wrote:

But then there is the other side to having your change ready, I have found my self getting the money together the night before.......thats getting a bit too scary....or anal.....

Nah, you're okay until you start polishing the coins with ketchup to make them all nice and sparkly for the bus driver.

parsi

bandraoi wrote:

Here's a little tip that I find very useful - ask for a ticket to Dublin City Centre when you're buying your train ticket in Galway or Limerick or wherever, then you're covered for the 90 bus too and it's cheaper.

Do they still do that ? I tried it a few times and got strange looks.. I did it on a contract ticket once as well. It would be a good idea if every rail ticket to Dublin was to O'Connell Bridge rather thane Hesuton..

downey

fletch wrote:

Suppose its like the way women go shopping and then get a complete shock when they get to the till and realise that they actually have to pay! Like that was totally unexpected!

So true!! never took notice of it before till you brought it to my attention!!

tony 2 tone

simu wrote:

Nah, you're okay until you start polishing the coins with ketchup to make them all nice and sparkly for the bus driver.

I use coke to make them sparkly..... (J/k)
Ketchup would be cool, your pocket would smell lovely all the time then!

eirebhoy

I rarely use buses and I hate holding up queue's for more than 5 seconds but I never know how much I have to pay. If I ask the driver I'll certainly be holding up the queue getting the correct amount so I usually just throw about 2 euro in for a 5min drive.

Tusky

Heres what you do.While sitting on the bus you get change ready and wait for someone to get on and fumble for the correct fare.Next you jump outa your seat , tear down the bus screaming "FILTHY BASTARD" dive into the air smacking them in the face with a flying swan kick, as they stumble back shocked go down on one knee and send an open palm into the crotch ,this will make them bend forward in pain...This is your chance , give them a taste of your knee with a 'raging rising dragon knee of death' to the chin. This will burst them open for sure sending blood spraying in all directions. While they are stunned grab two nearby Grannys. Take on in each arm and clank their heads into the culprit, one on each side of their head.Finish off with a 'naplam backflip to the face' and watch them burst into flames.

The chances are they will be knocked out at this point and you may feel mercy and decide to stop...fight the mercy ! sit on their chest - take out your willy and slap them in the face with it repeatedly while you break their nose with a pliers. ( you can get one in any common hardware shop )

Calmly get up and pop the change that you had ready into the fare thingy and say "85 please" or "1.65" depends if your in a good mood and feeling generous.


But yeah those people anoy me a tad too...specially if your trying to get somewhere by a certain time and your running late

JP Mulvano

No sh1t they make you angry, wow want a rant!!! impressive.

eirebhoy

Tusky wrote:

Heres what you do.While sitting on the bus you get change ready and wait for someone to get on and fumble for the correct fare.Next you jump outa your seat , tear down the bus screaming "FILTHY BASTARD" dive into the air smacking them in the face with a flying swan kick, as they stumble back shocked go down on one knee and send an open palm into the crotch ,this will make them bend forward in pain...This is your chance , give them a taste of your knee with a 'raging rising dragon knee of death' to the chin. This will burst them open for sure sending blood spraying in all directions. While they are stunned grab two nearby Grannys. Take on in each arm and clank their heads into the culprit, one on each side of their head.Finish off with a 'naplam backflip to the face' and watch them burst into flames.

No need to tell anyone what forum you moderate.

OfflerCrocGod

eirebhoy wrote:

No need to tell anyone what forum you moderate.

Nature / Birdwatching?

Rozabeez

its also annoying when a load of kids push past you on the que!

littleninja

Have to agree that it is annoying seeing people holding up queues, it's not too much to ask to actually have the money ready. I usually do have enough change (owing to the amount of coins that I seem to accumulate on an almost daily basis) But if I don't have the right change, I'll give them as near to it as I have on hand at the time. Either way, I would get it ready before I got on the bus.

grimloch

Rozabeez wrote:

its also annoying when a load of kids push past you on the que!

very true, im not being rascist or whatever but its generally foreign students and/or old ladies, once the driver stopped the students getting on because the nearly knocked over some old lady with their barging.

i always have my fare ready so that i take no more than 5 seconds at the machine

Flukey

Just buy a bus pass. I have not used cash on a bus in years, though I use the buses very regularly. No fumbling with change, no slow queues because the bus pass queue is a lot quicker. You can hop off a bus if you see another one behind that suit you better without having to pay any more. Very convenient.

Mutant_Fruit

As for the change, I always have mine ready, I even put the coins in order of size and have them all facing the same way (heads on top). And I'm a woman so there!

Same here, if i'm really bored, and wondering if the bus will turn up 10 mins late, as it usually does, or if it will actually fail to turn up again thats how i ammuse myself.

I also get kciks by using as many coppers as i can, and shortchanging the driver by 1cent!

Chevano Riley

tony 2 tone wrote:

But then there is the other side to having your change ready, I have found my self getting the money together the night before.......thats getting a bit too scary....or anal.....

my mother used to do that for me when i was in school. a 20p, 10p and 5p sellotaped together. one little pile for every day of the week.

Cookie

I hate the queues for ATMs. ppl wait until they are AT the ATM before starting to hunt through their pockets for their wallets for their card. :mad:

the_syco

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

I also get kciks by using as many coppers as i can, and shortchanging the driver by 1cent!

The bus driver gets pissed off if you pay the £1.65 with 1p's and 2p's (before the euro). Has that changed @ all? It cloged up the machine, and when he asked "was that all of it?", i take the remainder handfuls out of my pocket, and give it to him

Cookie wrote:

I hate the queues for ATMs. ppl wait until they are AT the ATM before starting to hunt through their pockets for their wallets for their card. :mad:

Depends what part of the city I'm in :rolleyes:

=====

Mainly, for the bus I've either a bus ticket, or a €2 coin. As for the cinema, I already know what I want to watch, unless I've seen nearly everything, then I ask; "is there any good violent films out, lately?"

blobert

People tend get impatient when they are queing for things, but once they get to the top of the queue they get lazy and start taking their time.

Saruman

I got myself one of them coin holder thingies in Roches stores. i can get any ammount of change out in seconds now rather than counting it and going through it. Its so handy as now i can actually use the 1 and 2 c coins

_Kaiser_

Interesting thread...

Relies on the premise that

(1) you've been standing at the bus stop for a while (in which case yes theres's no excuse for not having the change ready) as opposed to running like a madman for it before it pulls off (generally with the driver laughing in the mirror at you as you chase it for a few yards) and you stand up to 30 minutes waiting for another one while they pass in 3's in the opposite direction! (Anyone who's waited for a bus to town from the Blanch Centre in the evening will know what I mean).

and..

(2) That you know the exact fare, cause rarely will they tell you the correct one, or you guess, they hit the button and THEN smugly tell you how much you've just been overcharged by (and who REALLY is gonna go all the way to No 59 to cash their change ticket - now if you could cash them anywhere that sells bus tickets in the first place tho..... )

dazberry

I was driven demented over the summer 'cos of this because it happened fooking every evening going home - and I'm guessing its all the fault of Bewleys Hotel at Newlands Cross.

Ok, a lot of foreign tourists - no problem - they're more than welcome. But but but, picture this:
Mostly these would have been couples, maybe with kids. So, they have to ask the bus driver - which is fine. But as they're asking, they block BOTH passages (i.e. the ticket passage) on to the bus. So the bus driver figures? it out and tells them. Out comes some cash note. Bus driver explains coins only. Fumbling begins - coins are inserted ... While this process is going on NO ONE can get on the bus at all

Then you have the gangs of foreign teens - which in fairness sometimes were prepared and had prepay tickets. But geez, talk about a wave of people trying to get thru' one small door at the exact same time (elbow deployment required - purely for safety reasons). But you know the upshot of all this - your eardrums are in pretty bad shape before you even get on the bus, never mind when you get off. On one occasion even had a pair of teens snogging practically in my right ear - sigh.

Glad I got all that out - thanks

D.

PurpleFistMixer

When I'm getting on a bus I'm usually in a rush. I'm paranoid if I don't pay and get seated fast enough, the bus driver'll just shove me off the bus and go tearing off down the road laughing like a madman/woman. People fumbling is highly irritating, especially if you've been both running and getting your change out at the same time.

But it's annoying that it seems every other day they're upping the price by 5 cents or whatnot, so you never know how much the fare actually is. Still, no excuse. I usually get out what fare I think it is, then additional money for what I could be.

Or you just say "45cent" or whatever much, give the money, and get off wherever. Which I don't recommend... it's illegal.. probably... *shifty*

snappieT

Cookie wrote:

I hate the queues for ATMs. ppl wait until they are AT the ATM before starting to hunt through their pockets for their wallets for their card. :mad:

I keep my ATM card in my hand, but still in my packet in the queue for the ATM, for fear that YET another scumbag will think that it's great fun to take someone's ATM Card, even if they haven't a barney what the PIN is....

snappieT

Kaiser2000 wrote:

Interesting thread...
(and who REALLY is gonna go all the way to No 59 to cash their change ticket - now if you could cash them anywhere that sells bus tickets in the first place tho..... )

I have to point out; most charities and almost all people begging in the streets will gladly accept your bus refund. Imagine how much extra cash they'd make if everyone that wasn't going to get a refund gave them away.

Dublin Bus made an extra 3 million in unrefunded bus tickets last year... I'll never throw my refund in the bin PURELY by principle

fletch

Cookie wrote:

I hate the queues for ATMs. ppl wait until they are AT the ATM before starting to hunt through their pockets for their wallets for their card. :mad:

What I really hate at ATM's is those people who read every word on every screen when they're gettin money out. They must know the sequence by now & I know they're dif for each ATM but you get to know them.
You see them standing there ponderin...Mmmm...what doo i want to do! Jus wrecks my head.

Ste.phen

snapscan1212p wrote:

I have to point out; most charities and almost all people begging in the streets will gladly accept your bus refund. Imagine how much extra cash they'd make if everyone that wasn't going to get a refund gave them away.

Dublin Bus made an extra 3 million in unrefunded bus tickets last year... I'll never throw my refund in the bin PURELY by principle

for some reason i thought they gave that to charity? (probably just so people wouldnt complain?)

vector

dazberry wrote:

...as they're asking, they block BOTH passages (i.e. the ticket passage) on to the bus...

Come to Cork most drivers only open one "passage" regardless.

Saruman wrote:

I got myself one of them coin holder thingies in Roches stores. i can get any ammount of change out in seconds now rather than counting it and going through it. Its so handy as now i can actually use the 1 and 2 c coins

Cool, I now have 4 drawers full of sub 50c coins accrued since 2002.
I want to lodge them but will a bank trust my bagging or their weighing scales?

nlgbbbblth

jacko wrote:

Why can't people have their change ready before stepping onto the bus ... not being sexist or anything but its women who are the culprits 99% of the time ... fumbling in their purses for the coppers ...It obviously pisses the drivers off no end judging by the amount of sighs that can be heard coming from them.

not have change ready means you are disorganised

having your change ready means you are organised

it's trendy, cool and more fashionable to be disorganised

i.e. "organised people are nerds and are boring and predictable"

just like it's cool to say you can't remember your Inter/Leaving Cert results

BTW - I always have my bus card ready and can remember what I got in my Inter Cert

nlgbbbblth

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

But it's annoying that it seems every other day they're upping the price by 5 cents or whatnot, so you never know how much the fare actually is.

:rolleyes: I think there have been maybe 3 or 4 increases in the last 13 years
[plus the Euro changeover]

hardly translates to a fare increase 182 or 183 times a year

simu

nlgbbbblth wrote:

just like it's cool to say you can't remember your Inter/Leaving Cert results

Good point. How could anyone forget that?

vector

nlgbbbblth, the coolness or uncoolness of organisation - or indeed anything - is related to the effort required.

Counting change takes some daily effort so it is uncool.
You are using a bus pass which takes no daily effort so that is cool.

it's just another example of crappy ireland. over here in london the majority of people buy their bus tickets in advance for the week/month/year. all you have to do is show it to the driver. there is also the smart cards which you just touch it to a reader. in centeral london the buses don't accept cash so you buy a ticket from a machine at the stop.
and the way off the bus is by the rear doors so no having to fight past hordes of people trying to get on!

JP Mulvano

Hold on you're saying Ireland is crappy, and believe me I do agree to some regards, because people take alot of time in a queue of a bus or ATM. thats a bit harsh.

I'd rather take alot of time in a queue than be dilapidated super power bent on following our "Friends" across the pond to the brink of annihilation, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRGG

Dub13

parsi wrote:

One thing that always amused me going to get the bus was the sign on the bus saying "Exact change only" but no sign telling you the fare?

Could that be something to do with the fact that there is no set fare....it could be 45c,55c,85c,125c,165,175,305c.

gazzer

another thing that really pi***s me off on the bus (for some reason it happens nearly all the time on the number 7) why oh why do people insist on standing downstairs on the bus when there are plenty of seats upstairs... dont know how many times a bus has flown by the stop cos it looks jammers downstairs but there are loads of seats upstairs... it like people are afraid to go upstairs cos if it is full and they come down everybody will be laughing at them..

I can understand it if there are a load of scumbags upstairs and maybe you feel a bit threatened if you are on your own... but when i worked in Ballsbridge it happened nearly every day....

nlgbbbblth

gazzer wrote:

another thing that really pi***s me off on the bus (for some reason it happens nearly all the time on the number 7) why oh why do people insist on standing downstairs on the bus when there are plenty of seats upstairs... dont know how many times a bus has flown by the stop cos it looks jammers downstairs but there are loads of seats upstairs... it like people are afraid to go upstairs cos if it is full and they come down everybody will be laughing at them..

I can understand it if there are a load of scumbags upstairs and maybe you feel a bit threatened if you are on your own... but when i worked in Ballsbridge it happened nearly every day....

agree totally
there's no shame in going upstairs checking for a seat - if there's none so what? at least you have tried

people who do that really bug me - especially when I am getting off and have to plough through people blocking the downstairs area. I usually say "there's loads of seats upstairs" in a pissed-off voice.

there should be some law that makes it legal for us to "glass" (preferably with broken bottle or shattered pint glass) people who stand downstairs while there are seats upstairs

PurpleFistMixer

The only reason I can think of for standing downstairs when there are seats upstairs would be that you're getting off on practically the next stop and there's no point going all the way up just to come back down a second later.

In which case you might as well just walk!

Victor

For those that don't know how much the fare is either :

(a) use a timetable to work it out

(b) consider "how long is this journey" - from O'Connell Street €0.85 usually gets you to the canal, €1.25 gets you to roughly the city boundary.

(c) state destination clearly to driver while holding 8x20c (or combination of other coins that allow 80c, €1.20, €1.40, €1.60 ) and 1x5c. This will get you anywhere from the city centre to anywhere between Swords, Lucan and Shankill.

Kaiser2000 wrote:

now if you could cash them anywhere that sells bus tickets in the first place tho..... )

Cue people stealing bus ticket paper to write up receipts for "€499.15"

dazberry wrote:

While this process is going on NO ONE can get on the bus at all

Say "excuse me".

On one occasion even had a pair of teens snogging practically in my right ear - sigh.

Did you ask to join in

Victor

gazzer wrote:

another thing that really pi***s me off on the bus (for some reason it happens nearly all the time on the number 7) why oh why do people insist on standing downstairs on the bus when there are plenty of seats upstairs... dont know how many times a bus has flown by the stop cos it looks jammers downstairs but there are loads of seats upstairs... it like people are afraid to go upstairs cos if it is full and they come down everybody will be laughing at them.. I can understand it if there are a load of scumbags upstairs and maybe you feel a bit threatened if you are on your own... but when i worked in Ballsbridge it happened nearly every day....

It's sheep syndrome. Someone is going 3 stops or getting off in the next few stop. People board. The wolves go upstairs, but the sheep see someone standing there and think "oh, upstairs must be full". The more sheep the worse it gets and the higher percentage of sheep / confused wolves at the next stop.

PHB

tbh I find people who use change really annoying, I always have a bus card handy which saves a lot of time in the stop stages as I don't need to deal with the driver, you ****ers are wasting all of my time, which could be as much as 5 minutes a day, working out to 30 hours a year!

Have your bus ticket ready

sliabh

Well some of us don't take the bus regularly to know what the fare is going to be. So you are dependent on the driver (or the person behind you snarling and grinding their teeth, while fiddling with their machette and eyeing the two grannies accross from you with bloodshot twitchy eyes) to tell you what the fare is. And then you try to count out your change, realise you don't have enough and accept that you have to chuck in the €2 coin anyway.

I used to get annoyed about things like this and people that cause this sort of hassle. I'd plan to have them against the wall when the revolution came. But I realised that I'd need a wall about the size of the great wall of China.