Crazy people on buses (or any form of public transport)

i was that woman.

cil_aine wrote:

A couple of days ago, i was getting on the bus with two other friends. It was pretty busy downstairs and we were the last to get on. While we were getting on, this woman starts shouting "can you move down please!!" etc etc. So people did, a bit, anyway. It turned out that this woman had a seat free next to her, and was refusing to move her 3 bags in, and was refusing to move along in her seat. she kept sayign she had lots of bags, but one woman had six another had a baby "try carrying a ****ing child in your arms, woman!", one girl said. The whole downstairs started having a go at her. This one particular woman kept asking the driver to do something, but he wouldnt do anything.

The whole bus started tutting the lady, who in fairness, was being very selfish. There were plenty of older people who needed to sit down, and the woman was sitting in a seat FOR the elderly. My friend pointed it out, but a woman just goes "she ain't old love, she's just ****ing ugly!" Anyway, the woman who had been shouting earlier starts calling the woman a fat selfish **** and a fat stuck up bitch and so-on. really laying into her. at which woman sitting down started yelling "driver, please restrain this woman!" and "it is an offence to use such language, stop it now!" " I SHALL NOT MOVE!" etc etc

there was some space free near us, a little ledge which she could have put her shopping on, and me and my friends offered to look after her shopping if she moved it out of the way so people could move or sit. the foul-mouthed woman started sayign to us "why should you look after her ****?! why cant she ****ing move along?"

And then, she starts kicking this womans bags all over the bus, and then went right up to her face and yells "YOU STUPID ****ING ****!" and then smacks her one and starts ripping her hair out, at which hair went flying and a clump of it hit me in the chest! the people on the bus were tryign to restain the woman and tryign to tell the other lady, ironically, to sit back in her seat. she kept yelling, "somebody call the gards!" and the driver? did absolutly nothing, it was utter chaos and he did nothing. then the crazy woman proceeded to get off and slapped the woman around the face. the rest of the bus kept sayign to her "you brought it on yourself, there were old women and mothers tryign to mvoe and sit down, youve got an attitude problem!"

It was the craziest bus ride ever. Anyone else have any similar experiences?

Yeah i did . One time i was on the bus and it was packed and there was a bit opf space left and the bus wouldnt stop. I hate people who are all up in them seles and dont care what way they treat other people. :mad:

LundiMardi wrote:

I was that man...

Moral of the story: people get "bus brain", to coin a phrase from that woman who writes books from an insider perspective... The babylon books...

Anyway, people who are usually normal, sane, reasonable people, get on public transport and change completely.

I thought this this thread was about buses ?

This happened as I was on the 46A into town form UCD one evening.
This kind of ever-so-slightly prudish-looking, well-to-do chap is sitting in the seat in front of me, upstairs and in the left aisle of seats. So then this total pike gets on with another dodgy-looking middle-aged couple. The couple sit down in the seat behind me, while the initial scumbag (about 30-ish), sits in the seat in front of the guy already in front of me. So 2 seats in front of me.
The scumbag, call him Al, seats real sidelong in his seat, suprise suprise, he starts rolling a joint. He notices the prudish chap, call him Fionn, looking at him, and starts with the "Alroi bud, hows it goin wit ye?" craic, and Fionn replies politely, etc. So the pikey chap starts shiting on about hash and how "people, when you say "hash", dey tink "oh, drug, dats drug dat is!", but man, its just herbal med-i-cine, yeknow?". So being the total tosser that he is, 'Fionn' acts intensely interested in what Al has to say, hanging on every word. Al extends the block of hash to Fionns nose: "Here bud, have yerseldf a smell o' da'" and Fionns is all "Oh, really, roysh, wow, myes, mmm, I've never smelt hash before, actually, loike."
So Al starts on:
"Ah yeah man, like, I nevar had any family atall meself, like, i fookin raised meself on da streets, I was on de heroin before I was turteeyan (13), and Im on de metadone now, like, yeknow? Ill fookin tell ya, bud, sum people, dey do be fookin drinkin pints and gettin demselves pissed, but meself, id nevar touch de drink, bud. never. I just hav me cannibis; me herbal medicine, and im down to Xmg of de metadone now."
And I'm cringing at every moment of this guy feeding bull**** to the guy in front of me. So Al continues:
"Yeh, like I hav Hepatitis now for a few years, like. I got it offa sum burd, like. But Im lucky, bud, I have the kind dat yer body can foigh', yeknow? Wat abou' yerseldf?"

So the stupid conversation goes on with the pikey chap banging on about how all he does is wean himself of the methadone and never touches drink or "or any o dat ****e". He asks Fionn:
"Wat are ye doin yerself man, are ye in college or wat?"
Fionn: "Oh, mm, no, I work in IT, mmm, yes."

So Al says: "Ah, bud, its computars, like, dats like de "New Age", now innit? Did ye evar see dat film de "Matrix"? "

Fionn: "Oh, no, emm, I havent seen it..."

Al: "Listen, mate , you get yerself de Matrix 1, de matrix part 2, and de matrix part 3, make de toime, to watch dem, coz ill tell ye bud, its like, dey never had bullet time, before de matrix. dey invented bullet time, dyeknow? like, nowadays dey can go and follow a bullet and watch it werevar it does be goin, as fast or as slow as dey want, yeknow? it's fookin mad, man, ill tell ye".

So I'm struggling not to tear my hole laughing at these two eejits right now...eventually Al the pike gets off the bus, after shaking hands and saying long goodbyes to his new mate Fionn, and as soon as he's gone down the stairs, the woman who got on with him fomr behind me, leans forward and says to Fionn: "Don't fookin moind him! He does everdytin! he says he doesnt drink?! Yeah roigh! He only drinks bottles o vodka! dont fookin mind him, he does cocaine, herion, everdytin! He didnt get hepatitis from a burd, i'd say he gave it to a burd!"

Quite funny, the fool in front of me turns bright red and realises what a total tosspot he's been made. Haha "did ye ever see de matrix bud?" :v:

About 2 years ago of a Saturday night (last bus) some guy gets on skuttered with a chinese(or chips) under his arm. He remains silent for a few minutes... next thing he shouts out
"The bus driver my best friend, he brought me to the pub and now he is bringing me home to my door".

Another few minutes pass, next thing the man while crying, "my wife, my my wife would not even do that, the bus driver does it, and my wife won't... maybe I should have married the bus driver.... all you woman, please treat this bus driver with respect. He brings you where you need to go and does not ask for anything in return"....

The bloke in tears get's off the bus along Collins ave thanking the bus driver.

The guy was very emotional about that bus driver....

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Another time, on the 20b during the summer the bus stopped at the lights on the collins ave malahide junction. It's pissing rain so the bus is packed, the bus driver (french guy) announces there will be a show on downstairs. Bus driver get's out of his cabin and begenins juggling for the people. The rest of the way down to Annsleys bridge he sings over the mic.

Now, you may think I am a fool(waffler) making this up... which is what many thought until 2 people I go to college from clontarf confirmed it... apparently he has been there quite some time and does a route from the clontarf area. Funny guy, and how he still has/had a job suprises me.