13a = HELL!!!!

karlog wrote: »

Ah sure their doing no one any harm. It's good that the law is lenient with these people, they had a rough upbringing its not their fault.

This is sarcasm at its highest

Salt of the earth. :rolleyes:

Your problem OP is that you're not seeing the good in this situation.

Think of the entertainment you're getting on your journey. Imagine sitting on a bus with no crazy people, no junkies, no drunks, no gobby teenagers...the world would be a less colourful place.


PS: I'm a people watcher. Nothing delights me more than watching a few weirdos going about their daily business. I have taken note of the bus number for future reference.

I used to get the 13A when I was working in Dublin. Overheard many interesting and colourful conversations on it. Lots of interesting smells on that bus too. My bus in Cork is dull in comparison :pac:

Carl Sagan wrote: »

Or bus drivers should grow a pair and tell them to get the **** off when they start hassling people.

I've heard of more than one bus driver getting battered for following this advice.

Brendog wrote: »

which is why it smells of asperin and pee

...much like the 83. The waft on it when one oul wan got up last wednesday was dire. You could see people flinch...

Do I feel sorry for all the students slumming it on Dublin Bus with the OAPs & poor people?

No, not one f*cking bit.

I used to get that bus - don't remember anything bad about it other than once when there were flyer things all over it from Dublin Bus/the transport workers' union advising it would be discontinuing service to certain estates in Ballymun due to the drivers being intimidated every time they went in there.

Thought it was really horrible for all the people living in those estates who relied on the service, especially elderly.

Dudess wrote: »

I used to get that bus - don't remember anything bad about it other than once when there were flyer things all over it from Dublin Bus/the transport workers' union advising it would be discontinuing service to certain estates in Ballymun due to the drivers being intimidated every time they went in there.

Thought it was really horrible for all the people living in those estates who relied on the service, especially elderly.

They're bus drivers, not gardai. They shouldn't have to endure that kind of behaviour whilst at work. The union was dead right on that occasion. Not saying it wasn't unfair on the elderly and good folk however but that's what you have to expect when you live in an area like that.

MardiB wrote: »

I'm no student. I work too far from where I live to cycle and don't want to spend forever sitting in traffic when its faster to get the bus. My choice granted, merely pointing out the anti-social things that go on

Why be a dick to students and oaps?

Because they smell bad.

I'm pretty sure (having lived in various parts of the city) that the 77/A/50 busroute is Dublin's worst but mostly because its route takes it through a number of heavily dodgy areas (as opposed to heading or coming from a major bad spot). It really is a 'sit down downstairs' affair and you should be fine but that does not always work of course. Not much can be done until a crackdown begins.

The 77A is bad? I always found the scummers to be very pleasant. Usually they open a window or two if they're smoking, and sometimes have the courtesy to piss into their empty cans, rather than the floor.