Public Transport - Your Happy Stories

minidazzler · 21-11-2009 12:35AM

benwavner wrote: »

Received a hand shandy on a Bus Eireann bus from Drogheda to Dublin once.....true story.

Not public transport, but same story on my way back from Bere Island with the RDF in 2007! Dropped the hand as well, good times.

bnt · 21-11-2009 12:37AM

I rode a few buses in and around Houston, Texas in August. There's a LUAS-type light rail system covering the downtown Houston area: the buses might not run as often as Dublin buses, but they keep to the schedule. The website actually has friendly maps, not just a list of place names.

I had some trouble finding fare information on the website, since they didn't give a table of fares like I was used to: a single fare of $1.25, and a free transfer if you use a smart card, covers the whole of Harris County, an area almost 5x the size of Dublin. We are talking Houston, a city that runs on oil, so you have to be pretty down-and-out - or a tourist from Europe - to ride the bus there. :pac:

PS: if you want an actual story, though: the weirdest situation was when I was waiting for a subway train in Toronto, and this huge African guy took one look at me and started crying his eyes out. I have no idea why, and didn't want to go and ask, in case he hugged me to death or something. I noticed an inordinate number of emotionally unstable people on the streets of Canadian cities, such as the people sleeping rough in Calgary, in January, when the temperature can hit -40C. :eek:

dubtom · 21-11-2009 01:16AM

-40C. in fairness I'd cry too.

oppenheimer1 · 21-11-2009 02:52AM

You people give out about dublin buses and their drivers, try london bus! Being rude and ignorant is a necessary qualification

smegmar · 21-11-2009 04:02AM

I miss the last 29A bus home, and didn't realize it had gone, luckily another bus was going that way en route to the garage, he picked me up at no fare, went well out of his route and dropped me pretty much at my front door. What a champion. All the way there we were talking about how management in Dublin bus can be assholes

angeldelight · 21-11-2009 04:47AM

I was on a nite link home on my own and it was raining - I asked the bus driver if he'd mind letting me off at the top of my estate rather than at the stop as there was nobody else getting off at my stop anyway - instead he drove into my estate and dropped me near my house

It was mostly to do with me being on my own and a few lads on the bus making comments to any females on the bus I think. I had a giggle to myself thinking of the neighbours looking out their window and seeing a double decker bus going round the green in the middle of the night

ElaElaElano · 21-11-2009 04:52AM

Any time Dessie O' Toole is driving the bus is a happy time. Small lad, late 40s, curly hair. What a hero.

There was one time at a red light and a backlog of traffic, he got out of his seat, stuck his head upstairs and screamed 'I DON'T KNOW WHAT A TRACKER MORTGAGE IS'. On an off day he'll just sing ballads and try it on with aul ones.

Public Transport - Your Happy Stories

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