Bus etiquette?

Fbjm · 17-10-2011 02:00PM #1

I don't get buses often, but from my limited experience, what is expected of me (the customer) is to drop €2.30 into the slot thing and the driver prints me my ticket.

So I got on a bus just five minutes ago with my earphones plugged in, got €2.30 out of my wallet and dropped it into the slot. The driver looked at me questioningly. I took my earphones out to hear what he wanted to say, but all he did was continue staring quizzically at me. I tentatively uttered "eh... €2.30?" he shrugged and printed me my ticket.

What did he want from me?

sensibleken · 17-10-2011 02:01PM

Head

TwoShedsJackson · 17-10-2011 02:01PM

Probably wanted you to at least pretend to interact with him, rather than just throwing your money in and expecting him to be telepathic.

Degsy · 17-10-2011 02:01PM

Fbjm wrote: »

What did he want from me?

Please or thank you would be nice.

listermint · 17-10-2011 02:02PM

Its usual practice to tell him where you are going so he can decide if your ticket needs change printed on it.......

mawk · 17-10-2011 02:03PM

Maybe he was lonely?

awesom_o · 17-10-2011 02:03PM

Usually, I take one earphone out and drop the coins in, stating how much I'm paying.

I don't know if this is the case, but on older buses, the coin slot doesn't count your change so you have to say it to the bus driver. I don't know though, just a theory.. I'm probably wrong though.

Harry Angstrom · 17-10-2011 02:04PM

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to rename this thread "Earphones Etiquette"?

Elliee · 17-10-2011 02:04PM

Ehh.. More than likely wanted to hear where you wanted to go and make sure you were paying the right fare? bus fare dodgers. rife.

--Kaiser-- · 17-10-2011 02:04PM

Bus ****!

-Kenny- · 17-10-2011 02:05PM

* In Country Voice*

"Stand Clear Luggage Doors Operating"

17-10-2011 02:05PM

you were rude and expected him to be telepathic and you're complaining...?

Elliee · 17-10-2011 02:05PM

Maybe you've a big dirty snot hanging outta your nose and he was trying to tell you but you were too rude by having the earphones in, in the first place so he thought meh, and shrugged. Id go look in the mirror.

hondasam · 17-10-2011 02:06PM

Fbjm wrote: »

I don't get buses often, but from my limited experience, what is expected of me (the customer) is to drop €2.30 into the slot thing and the driver prints me my ticket.

So I got on a bus just five minutes ago with my earphones plugged in, got €2.30 out of my wallet and dropped it into the slot. The driver looked at me questioningly. I took my earphones out to hear what he wanted to say, but all he did was continue staring quizzically at me. I tentatively uttered "eh... €2.30?" he shrugged and printed me my ticket.

What did he want from me?

Hello, can I have a ticket please, thank you. take your seat.
He cannot read your mind.

fran oconnor · 17-10-2011 02:09PM

You should have taken off your headphones and said 2.30 please from the start, this is the ignorance of being a podestrian:rolleyes:...

Unique User Name · 17-10-2011 02:13PM

It depends on which bus it was. If you're in Dublin and it was a 77, he was probably expecting you to charge past him with a joint in your hand. Actually paying may have taken him by surprise.

BBDBB · 17-10-2011 02:15PM

maybe it wasnt a bus and you just surprised the hell out of a van driver

James Forde · 17-10-2011 02:15PM

Manners you inbred!

im invisible · 17-10-2011 02:16PM

hondasam wrote: »

Hello, can I have a ticket please, thank you. take your seat.
He cannot read your mind.

well now, i'd say it was pretty obvious what he wanted...

having said that, i used to work in a rural bar, and you'd have lads comming in, not acknowledging you, having a chat with the other old lads, then five, ten minutes, maybe even half an hour later giving out because i hadnt got their pint filled...

starch4ser · 17-10-2011 02:18PM

i usually fire a load of coppers into it, nowhere near the actual fare and tell the driver the fare, some time 30 or 40 coins, bit of a nightmare to expect the guy to count it all up...

mikemac · 17-10-2011 02:19PM

There are different fares, you don't just drop in the money
You tell the driver what you are paying

A please or thank you to the driver wouldn't kill you either

Orando Broom · 17-10-2011 02:19PM

Op, earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dRQr9DFDqU

hondasam · 17-10-2011 02:22PM

im invisible wrote: »

well now, i'd say it was pretty obvious what he wanted...

having said that, i used to work in a rural bar, and you'd have lads comming in, not acknowledging you, having a chat with the other old lads, then five, ten minutes, maybe even half an hour later giving out because i hadnt got their pint filled...

It's nice to be nice, a bit of common courtesy goes a long way.

Larianne · 17-10-2011 02:25PM

hondasam wrote: »

It's nice to be nice, a bit of common courtesy goes a long way.

I lived with a girl from Sligo in Sydney that came home amazed one day saying the school children were awful polite, saying Thank You to the bus driver getting off the bus. Never occurred to her that it was politeness and that most/some Irish people do it too. :cool:

Diddler1977 · 17-10-2011 02:25PM

Fbjm wrote: »

I don't get buses often, but from my limited experience, what is expected of me (the customer) is to drop €2.30 into the slot thing and the driver prints me my ticket.

So I got on a bus just five minutes ago with my earphones plugged in, got €2.30 out of my wallet and dropped it into the slot. The driver looked at me questioningly. I took my earphones out to hear what he wanted to say, but all he did was continue staring quizzically at me. I tentatively uttered "eh... €2.30?" he shrugged and printed me my ticket.

What did he want from me?

You need to indicate to the driver either where you are going or what ticket your are purchasing i.e "€2.30, please" or "City Centre please".

After you retrieve your ticket, "bus etiquette" would be to say thanks to the driver and then take your seat.

Tesco Massacre · 17-10-2011 02:25PM

Anyone sit in the front seat upstairs so they can pretend they're driving?

Obviously I don't, but I'd like to know if people do that sort of thing.

mikemac · 17-10-2011 02:27PM

And if it's Dublin Bus 78A you wave a battered piece of cardboard which is clearly a fake pass and then smoke and drink and annoy everyone :mad:

I'll gladly pay a surcharge to get STT on my bus

fran oconnor · 17-10-2011 02:31PM

Unique User Name wrote: »

It depends on which bus it was. If you're in Dublin and it was a 77, he was probably expecting you to charge past him with a joint in your hand. Actually paying may have taken him by surprise.

No such thing as the 77 now.

o1s1n · 17-10-2011 02:32PM

On the subject of Bus etiquette (actually all transport etiquette)

What's the deal with people not knowing the personal space rule? If there are a **** load of free seats, why the hell did you just sit on the two seater right beside me?

Or if you're sitting beside me due to the bus being packed, and eventually two seaters free up all over the place, why haven't you moved? Are you lonely? Do you think because we're sitting beside each other that makes us friends?