People with FREE travel passes

jahalpin · 10-12-2007 6:13pm #1

I was getting on the bus on O'Connell Street this afternoon, I was waiting in the queue for the people with tickets and this women comes up to me and tells me that I'm on the wrong side and that it's only for people with disability passes and OAP passes, this is the second or third time that this has happened and it really annoys me

Any comments etc?

MagicMarker · 10-12-2007 6:14pm

I hope you pushed her to the ground and kicked her in the face?

You should have told her you have no legs and therefore qualify for a disability pass.

Dord · 10-12-2007 6:16pm

WTF?

You queue one side if you want to pay as you get on, the other if you have a ticket.

TBH, I'd tell her to eff off! :mad:

Random · 10-12-2007 6:25pm

Joe Robot wrote: »

WTF?

You queue one side if you want to pay as you get on, the other if you have a ticket.

TBH, I'd tell her to eff off! :mad:

In a nice calm relaxed way! You don't want a whack of the handbag

Fratton Fred · 10-12-2007 6:27pm

They should bring in free travel for under 18s like in London. That will shut the old gits up

biko · 10-12-2007 6:32pm

Seem excessive to give them free travel AND a VIP line at stops. Dublin only? I've never seen this.

Lands Leaving · 10-12-2007 7:10pm

biko wrote: »

Seem excessive to give them free travel AND a VIP line at stops. Dublin only? I've never seen this.

Its not true as far as I know. Can't say I've ever been told to move. Although Oaps always try to barge people out of the way. swift elbow sorts em out though

WindSock · 10-12-2007 7:25pm

jahalpin wrote: »

and this women comes up to me and tells me that I'm on the wrong side and that it's only for people with disability passes and OAP passes, this is the second or third time that this has happened and it really annoys me

Thats because those people are Principals of the line

Old people go out on buses for the day just so they can nag people and feel important. I don't really mind, as long as they aren't driving.

L1011 · 10-12-2007 7:27pm

WTF? There has *never* been a queue for people with social welfare passes. If you can be arsed dividing the queue at all, right of the queue is for people who aren't paying cash - and that includes the little cardboard tickets used by huge amounts of passless people - and left is for those with cash. I'd have told the old bag she was mistaken (as nicely as I could) and refused to move.

*Angel* · 10-12-2007 7:37pm

I hope you told her that was wrong, I hate when older people think they are so above the younger population.

Lands Leaving · 10-12-2007 7:38pm

*Angel* wrote: »

I hope you told her that was wrong, I hate when older people think they are so above the younger population.

Especially since they've been shrinking since the age of 65

Mrs. MacGyver · 10-12-2007 7:42pm

My argument if confronted by one is to say its not in social welfare legislation!
Seriously though theres one queue for pre-paid tickets and one with cash. If anything they should queue in the cash line since it enteres nearest the driver and he would need to verify the pass concerned!

Karoma · 10-12-2007 7:55pm

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

My argument if confronted by one is to say its not in social welfare legislation!
Seriously though theres one queue for pre-paid tickets and one with cash. If anything they should queue in the cash line since it enteres nearest the driver and he would need to verify the pass concerned!

QFT. Tell her to call the cops or tell Daddy Dublin Bus Driver.
They usually go in the pre-paid ticket queue. It used to always be quicker. It's not like the drivers ever really check their passes.

To be honest, I'll usually let little ol' people in front of me in a queue anyway - as if I need to "let" them. They usually just jump the queue. I'm relaxed. I'm calm. This is okay. They don't have as long to live. It's okay. *rocks back 'n' forth*

andyl222 · 10-12-2007 8:32pm

hahaha that old trick, the auld ones at the 123 bus stop on o connell street are forever saying that. I always just laugh at them, or a nice condescending pat on the head works a treat while saying,"well of course it is". Failing this a sturdy chokeslam against the side of the bus usually winds the little blighters.

snickerpuss · 10-12-2007 9:45pm

You'd hardly queue on the left to use the ticket machine which is on the right. It's on the right for a reason! Also the promo posters for the tickets say "Skip the queues, use a pass."
Old people... *shakes fist*
They always elbow you or push you out of the way to get on first. If they weren't so rude about it I'd happily let them on before me.

Rhyme · 10-12-2007 9:48pm

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

Seriously though theres one queue for pre-paid tickets and one with cash.

This.

On Dublin Bus it's Cash to the left, tickets to the right. Anything else is nonesense.

Also, always let people off before you try and get on. The ignorance on the 27 is astounding.

MIN2511 · 10-12-2007 9:56pm

OP was this off peak time?

I think people with free passes should not be allowed on the bus at peak times...

Lands Leaving · 10-12-2007 10:00pm

MIN2511 wrote: »

I think people with free passes should not be allowed on the bus at peak times...

that doesn't make sense? what if they need to get their prunes or go to the wool shop for knitting needles at peak time. do you mean they should pay at peak times?

jahalpin · 10-12-2007 10:12pm

It was peak time, they changed the rules a few months ago and now passholders can use the bus all day

The old ones are terrible, they usually use their sticks to push people out of the way and they also push onto the bus when people are still getting off. Some of them also have those trolly things which they put into the buggy \ wheelchair area and make anyone using a buggy use the aisle

phasers · 10-12-2007 10:19pm

Lands Leaving wrote: »

that doesn't make sense? what if they need to get their prunes or go to the wool shop for knitting needles at peak time. do you mean they should pay at peak times?

no, just stay at home obviously

need food? tough, wait until an empty bus comes Gertie.. :cool:

old people seem to think Dublin bus owes them something, they skip the queue and leave their little trolley things in the middle of the aisle
a swift kick soon gets them to move it

Lands Leaving · 10-12-2007 10:22pm

phasers wrote: »

no, just stay at home obviously

need food? tough, wait until an empty bus comes Gertie.. :cool:

old people seem to think Dublin bus owes them something, they skip the queue and leave their little trolley things in the middle of the aisle
a swift kick soon gets them to move it

they also infect the afternoon buses, and slow everything down by taking ten minutes to get on and off the bus. and there's one at every stop so a twenty minute journey takes twice that.

I say call in the sunset squad robots from futurama

phasers · 10-12-2007 10:28pm

Lands Leaving wrote: »

they also infect the afternoon buses, and slow everything down by taking ten minutes to get on and off the bus. and there's one at every stop so a twenty minute journey takes twice that.

I say call in the sunset squad robots from futurama

they can be hooked up to a computerized world where they play shuffleboard and wait for their children to call

and if they're travelling in a pack they discuss who should get on first
"ah jaysus Rose no you go first I insist"
"now don't be silly Dorothy you go first"

and God help you if you don't immediately spring up to let them sit down

Lands Leaving · 10-12-2007 10:39pm

phasers wrote: »

and God help you if you don't immediately spring up to let them sit down

I've felt the wrath of the elderly for that and it's not pretty. The rest of the bus gives you the dirtiest looks as well, its not as if they bloody offered their seat either.

Nehpets · 10-12-2007 11:11pm

Glad this topic came up! I buy a travel card most weeks but normally join at the very end of the line (it's pretty damn long!). So I can actually join at the other end?

Nightwish · 10-12-2007 11:17pm

I've had some old bag of a one tell me the same thing as the OP. I gave her an icy stare and growled and she backed away pretty quickly.

L1011 · 10-12-2007 11:30pm

Nehpets wrote: »

Glad this topic came up! I buy a travel card most weeks but normally join at the very end of the line (it's pretty damn long!). So I can actually join at the other end?

Come at the queue from the right and you should be able to get on ahead of most of the cash payers. And old biddies.

If you want to get the ultimate icy stare from old people, go on a bus with a skateboard. Its like you've killed all their friends and defecated on their graves or something. I had a suit on with my deck with me once (looong story) and I might as well have murdered one of the old witches on the 66 the way they stared me out of it at the stop/on the bus.

girlwitcurls · 10-12-2007 11:44pm

respect your elders eh.

Dord · 10-12-2007 11:53pm

Lands Leaving wrote: »

I've felt the wrath of the elderly for that and it's not pretty. The rest of the bus gives you the dirtiest looks as well, its not as if they bloody offered their seat either.

Ah yeah, some oul fecker start giving me abuse about not getting up to let him sit down. He was being really abusive so I called him a c**t!

:mad:
It was so funny, he looked like this > :eek:

Nightwish · 10-12-2007 11:55pm

MYOB wrote: »

If you want to get the ultimate icy stare from old people, go on a bus with a skateboard. Its like you've killed all their friends and defecated on their graves or something. I had a suit on with my deck with me once (looong story) and I might as well have murdered one of the old witches on the 66 the way they stared me out of it at the stop/on the bus.

The elderly on the 123 would get up if I sat down beside them. Something about the black boots, rosary beads and metal t-shirts unnerved them.

jimmycrackcorm · 11-12-2007 12:33am

If an auld wan said to me about the ticket side being for the OAPS I'd quickly tell her that I had a face lift and thanks for the compliment.

Toto Wolfcastle · 11-12-2007 12:56am

I don't think they do the separate line thing in Cork...well, not officially anyway. But unofficially, the old ones sit near the bus and as soon as they see the driver coming (they know all the drivers' schedules) they leg it to the front of the queue. It's magical.....like a gazelle with a bad hip. Then they put their bag on the seat next to them so that when the bus fills up, everyone else has to stand.

Prefer driving really. You get to exclude old people that way.

boneless · 11-12-2007 12:33pm

I don't know. These Senior citizens coming over here from Senior, wherever that is, taking up places in our queues...:p

Give them a break people! They live for these scraps in the queue!!

Or just tell them that you have a debilitating and contagious disease and have a special bus pass?

BaconZombie · 11-12-2007 12:55pm

girlwitcurls wrote: »

respect your elders eh.

Recycle your Elders....

faceman · 11-12-2007 1:36pm

we should deport them back to their own country i reckon. Hang on, its not foreigners we're giving out about it is it?

Ive never heard that before either, anyone pop a call to dublin bus to alert them to it?

Mrs. MacGyver · 12-12-2007 10:06pm

Rhyme wrote: »

This.

On Dublin Bus it's Cash to the left, tickets to the right. Anything else is nonesense.

Also, always let people off before you try and get on. The ignorance on the 27 is astounding.

I agree, used to live in Darndale so i know exactly the prob. your talking about

MizzLolly · 12-12-2007 10:46pm

I hate to say but there's a hell of a lotta kranky old twats out there. I got pushed by an old man the other day. I was standing holding onto a bar with my back turned facing the door. This old fella who had a seat despite the fact he doesn't have to pay to get on, gets up, pushes me and says "You can be gettin away from there now, I want to stand there at that bar". That's a load of sh*t coz there was loads of room for him to stand safely. Anyway he stood there for AGES, he didn't even get off at the next stop. Just being a stupid old fu*king prick (sorry but this really annoys me) I said out loud " I don't see what the rush was"... he looked back but said nothing. Probably not used to being questioned since most young people fear being called ignorant etc.. if we stand up for ourselves. I'd NEVER push anybody on a bus like that. I'd never speak to a stranger with that tone or try to publically humiliate them like that!

Stupid old f*cker prob spent his whole life beating his kids around, I find it so hard to have respect for SOME of them to be perfectly honest!

michelleans · 13-12-2007 12:43am

andyl222 wrote: »

a nice condescending pat on the head works a treat while saying,"well of course it is".

Love it

I shall be trying this...

WexCan · 13-12-2007 12:50am

Rhyme wrote: »

This.

On Dublin Bus it's Cash to the left, tickets to the right. Anything else is nonesense.

Also, always let people off before you try and get on. The ignorance on the 27 is astounding.

Driver should use the centre doors more often a la UK so people aren't bumping into each other.

L1011 · 13-12-2007 9:17am

WexCan wrote: »

Driver should use the centre doors more often a la UK so people aren't bumping into each other.

Except no buses delivered since 2000 have centre doors; causing a slight problem on the low floor accessible routes

WexCan · 13-12-2007 9:54am

Oopsie

RadioCity · 13-12-2007 11:29am

I've hear DB drivers refer to old people getting off the bus (not the low floor buses) as "deep sea divers".

Imagine a deep sea diver going down a ladder into the water, thats the way auld wans reverse themselves down the steps of the bus (apparently). It was a Phibsboro driver told me that.

People with FREE travel passes

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