I play by my own rules, nobody else's, not even my own!

duckygalway · 24-03-2010 12:32AM #1

Remember when you were young and didn't care about anything?! Then in college you notice people who can be a bit sticky on certain things. Well at what point and where do people come from who get all up on rules and regulations?!

Started a thread in the Galway forum about a bus driver who wouldn't let me off at a stop as it wasn't an official one but there is a bus bay there, he was stopped for a red light and people get off there all the time.

A lot of the responses go on;

-it's the law
-expressway buses can't, regional ones can
-you shouldn't distract the drivers attention
-why would you get off at a major intersection
-passenger safety comes first
-insurance
-would you risk your job
-etc.

Is it just me or does the whole situation stink of "the man"?!

"DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"

ball · 24-03-2010 12:35AM

You asked to get off, and he said no.

Get over it

starbelgrade · 24-03-2010 12:37AM

I don't care - I have a car. When I want to stop somewhere, I hit the brakes.

johnnyskeleton · 24-03-2010 12:37AM

I've never heard someone describe a bus driver not letting them off between stops as an expression of the encroachment of a autocratic government into the inalienable rights of man before.

It seems to me that other people just want to get home on time.

Kasabian · 24-03-2010 12:38AM

OP , rules is rules, now get behind the white line

Ruu_Old · 24-03-2010 12:39AM

G'wan ya rebel ya! You tell 'em!

RayM · 24-03-2010 12:39AM

duckygalway wrote: »

"DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"

Picture the scenario... He obliges you, and then five other people see the door opening and decide that they want to get out too. Meanwhile, the lights turn green while they're rummaging around in the luggage bay. Everyone else, including the traffic behind, gets pissed off.

Danbo! · 24-03-2010 12:40AM

If your thread in the Galway Forum didnt go the way you wanted it to, it certainly isnt going to go your way here

duckygalway · 24-03-2010 12:42AM

Stee wrote: »

If your thread in the Galway Forum didnt go the way you wanted it to, it certainly isnt going to go your way here

Haha -no it's not like that, just an observation! I'm not getting hung up on it but just thought about people who really follow things to the line!

Cheap Thrills! · 24-03-2010 12:43AM

Eh, fire exit.

Screw the man, man.

starbelgrade · 24-03-2010 12:44AM

Buses are like taxis for the underprivileged & beggars can't be choosers.

duckygalway · 24-03-2010 12:45AM

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Eh, fire exit.

Screw the man, man.

That's what I'm talkin bout!!!

ejmaztec · 24-03-2010 12:48AM

duckygalway wrote: »

I play by my own rules, nobody else's, not even my own!

Perhaps he couldn't understand your alien tongue.

masseyno9 · 24-03-2010 12:49AM

lonad wrote: »

OP , rules is rules, now get behind the white line

Don't make me tap the sign...

24-03-2010 12:50AM

Had this before, wrecked my tits to be honest..

abouttobebanned · 24-03-2010 12:51AM

Ever notice how holier than thou people become on this forum. No fcuking way they're like that in real life.

racso1975 · 24-03-2010 12:51AM

or the fact you called him dude? That prob wasnt the 90's stop!

duckygalway · 24-03-2010 12:54AM

racso1975 wrote: »

or the fact you called him dude? That prob wasnt the 90's stop!

I didn't actually say that -more for dramatic effect on here... no?!

starbelgrade · 24-03-2010 12:55AM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Ever notice how holier than thou people become on this forum. No fcuking way they're like that in real life.

Bless you my son.

tony1kenobi · 24-03-2010 12:56AM

I always use the red button when I want to get off a bus.....it has a wicked theme tune that goes with it....and it never fails.

mink_man · 24-03-2010 01:01AM

same with boards really..different rules for different people mostly people who lick up to mods.

AnonoBoy · 24-03-2010 01:04AM

If I was there and he let you off I would have karate-chopped the driver in the neck, grabbed the wheel, spun across the traffic, over the embankment into the oncoming traffic and killed everyone in a firey ball of death.

Is that what you wanted to happen OP? Is it? Cause that's what happens when drivers let people off when they're not supposed to!

oppenheimer1 · 24-03-2010 01:12AM

duckygalway wrote: »

Remember when you were young and didn't care about anything?! Then in college you notice people who can be a bit sticky on certain things. Well at what point and where do people come from who get all up on rules and regulations?!

Started a thread in the Galway forum about a bus driver who wouldn't let me off at a stop as it wasn't an official one but there is a bus bay there, he was stopped for a red light and people get off there all the time.

A lot of the responses go on;

-it's the law
-expressway buses can't, regional ones can
-you shouldn't distract the drivers attention
-why would you get off at a major intersection
-passenger safety comes first
-insurance
-would you risk your job
-etc.

Is it just me or does the whole situation stink of "the man"?!

"DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"

What you do is press the little red button over the door. SFA they can do then.

oppenheimer1 · 24-03-2010 01:15AM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Ever notice how holier than thou people become on this forum. No fcuking way they're like that in real life.

Yes they are, people always give out about others when they are breaking the rules, but make exceptions for themselves when they do. Notice how every other driver is either a lunatic aor a snail?!

People are hypocrites. Boards.ie is populated by many of them.

duckygalway · 24-03-2010 01:17AM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

What you do is press the little red button over the door. SFA they can do then.

Hehe -would you actually do it?!

tech77 · 24-03-2010 01:35AM

duckygalway wrote: »

Remember when you were young and didn't care about anything?! Then in college you notice people who can be a bit sticky on certain things. Well at what point and where do people come from who get all up on rules and regulations?!

Started a thread in the Galway forum about a bus driver who wouldn't let me off at a stop as it wasn't an official one but there is a bus bay there, he was stopped for a red light and people get off there all the time.

A lot of the responses go on;

-it's the law
-expressway buses can't, regional ones can
-you shouldn't distract the drivers attention
-why would you get off at a major intersection
-passenger safety comes first
-insurance
-would you risk your job
-etc.

Is it just me or does the whole situation stink of "the man"?!

"DUDE, THE BUS ISN'T MOVING -PEOPLE ALWAYS GET OFF HERE. LET ME OFF!"

Someone's gonna make a movie out of this some day.
"In a World where Expressway bus drivers just keep on going...
One man... had had enough
From the creators of Speed
and the director of Falling Down
comes a road movie like no other..."

flynnlives · 24-03-2010 02:45AM

'A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure' -Margaret Thatcher

duckygalway · 24-03-2010 02:47AM

flynnlives wrote: »

'A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure' -Margaret Thatcher

Only 24!! Sold car to raise funds for travelling... I'm cool, really.

RayM · 24-03-2010 03:08AM

flynnlives wrote: »

'A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure' -Margaret Thatcher

A politician who spouts that kind of shite can count herself as a cúnt.

kryogen · 24-03-2010 03:10AM

tell him you are a bomb, unless he lets you off you are taking him with you

starbelgrade · 24-03-2010 03:26AM

Maybe there was already a bomb on the bus, ala Speed & that's why he didn't want to stop?

I play by my own rules, nobody else's, not even my own!

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