Saying "Thanks" to the bus driver:

Mickeroo · 30-09-2012 02:20PM

No

I don't think its ignorant not to or anything but would always do it myself.

df1985 · 30-09-2012 03:47PM

No

ive been known to thank atms when im half asleep in the mornings....basic manners?

nbar12 · 30-09-2012 03:55PM

No

I automatically dislike people if they don't say thanks to the driver! I'm also a weirdo and randomly like seeing when a bus driver waves to another when they drive past another bus

fkt · 15-11-2012 11:25PM

A driver told me I have 'no manners' today for not saying thanks. He got told.

BlaasForRafa · 15-11-2012 11:33PM

No

fkt wrote: »

A driver told me I have 'no manners' today for not saying thanks. He got told.

He was right.

wp_rathead · 15-11-2012 11:38PM

No

Yes, ofcourse..

..feck sake I say thanks to the ATM

BlaasForRafa · 15-11-2012 11:40PM

No

wprathead wrote: »

Yes, ofcourse..

..feck sake I say thanks to the ATM

Thats fine. It gets worrying if the atm says "you're welcome" though

fkt · 16-11-2012 04:37AM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

He was right.

When you get off a train do you go find the driver(co-ordinator?) to thank him/her?

starlit · 17-11-2012 02:25PM

No

I do most of the time but there are times I might not if he a bit grumpy but otherwise I usually say thanks.

billybudd · 17-11-2012 04:33PM

I say thank you. Thank you for not getting on a bacterial ridden smelly bus everyday i dont, to myself.

EmptyTree · 17-11-2012 05:45PM

No

fkt wrote: »

When you get off a train do you go find the driver(co-ordinator?) to thank him/her?

Probably not, but since you are walking right past the bus driver as you get off.....It's hardly that much effort is it??

Shanotheslayer · 17-11-2012 11:21PM

No

Whenever I'm with a few mates and we're getting off we make sure to say something different each ''Cheers'' ''Thanks ''Adios'' etc etc.. Usually gets a laugh! Nice to be nice!

LordSutch · 17-11-2012 11:44PM

I reckon saying thanks/Thank you to the bus driver is a local thing, you certainly wouldn't say it to a London bus driver for fear of getting a quizzical look followed by something like "is you soft in the head or somefing mate"?

Come to think of it I haven't noticed it being used in Manchester, Edinburgh or parts of Germany either, the only place I hear people thanking the bus driver as they get off, is here in Ireland! I guess that to many Irish people its just good manners, while to others it might just seem a bit different, and rather old fashioned & quaint?

I'd say cheers myself. or goodnight, or something else, so I wouldn't blank the driver, not sure that I would always say thanks though . . .

CRM Ireland · 17-11-2012 11:47PM

No

LordSutch wrote: »

I reckon saying thanks/Thank you to the bus driver is a local thing, you certainly wouldn't say it to a London bus driver for fear of getting a quizzical look followed by something like "is you soft in the head or somefing mate"?

Come to think of it I haven't noticed it being used in Manchester, Edinburgh or parts of Germany either, the only place I hear people thanking the bus driver as they get off, is here in Ireland! I guess that to many Irish people its just good manners, while to others it might just seem a bit different, and rather old fashioned & quaint?

I'd say cheers myself. or goodnight, or something else, so I wouldn't blank the driver, not sure that I would always say thanks though . . .

Everyone I know in Scotland says it. I also lived in Spain and its common there.

j72twr6f4e5ako · 18-11-2012 12:30PM

No

LordSutch wrote: »

Come to think of it I haven't noticed it being used in Manchester, Edinburgh or parts of Germany either, the only place I hear people thanking the bus driver as they get off, is here in Ireland! I guess that to many Irish people its just good manners, while to others it might just seem a bit different, and rather old fashioned & quaint?

I live in Manchester and always say thanks to the bus driver. It was something that my mother taught me as a child and I have always done it. I think this idea of it being an Irish thing is a bit of a myth, I'm English, never been to Ireland (yet!), and can't imagine getting of the bus and not doing it.

gallag · 18-11-2012 12:35PM

Buses are for people on the bottom rung of the social ladder so I doubt the driver cares if he is thanked by some vagabond.

LordSutch · 18-11-2012 03:14PM

So for just one moment put yourself in the drivers seat > the average Dublin double decker carries 87 passengers,
you reach the City Centre with a full bus load and they all start to disembark, and then as as you prepare for the next journey . . . . .

Passenger No 1 - Thank you, Passenger No 2 thanks, Passenger No 3 thank you, Passenger No 4 thans, Passenger No 5 Thanks, thanks thank thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thank you thanks thank you thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks thank you thanks, all the best* thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, bye now, thank you thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks thanks, thnks thanks thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks, thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks thanks, thnks thanks thanks thanks, thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thank you thanks thanks thanks, 81 82 83 84 85 86 87.

That's me with the asterix

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Hippies! · 18-11-2012 03:15PM

They should install a touchscreen just alongside him and you can tap a thanks button on the way out.

steve9859 · 18-11-2012 03:19PM

Ok..,,I dont get a bus often, but the ones I do get, the doors to get off are half way down.

So how do the 95% of you all say thanks? You shout it down the bus or something?!

FloatingVoter · 18-11-2012 03:21PM

steve9859 wrote: »

Ok..,,I dont get a bus often, but the ones I do get, the doors to get off are half way down.

So how do the 95% of you all say thanks? You shout it down the bus or something?!

Most of the buses I get (daily) never open the middle doors.

Corruptedmorals · 18-11-2012 03:41PM

No

I think people are overstating that getting loads of thanks would be annoying to the driver. A bit different I know but I'm on tills for a whole shift, just over 7 hours- I will be thanked hundreds of times during it. It's normal, I acknowledge them (granted I'd have more time to do so than a bus driver) and the peop-le who don't say it stand out and not in a good way.

SwanEater · 18-11-2012 04:18PM

Saying "thanks" is nice, nothing wrong with that. I like to go one step further though and offer a small gift to those hard working men.

Last time I was getting off the bus I handed over a nice freshly plucked wing to the man, much to his surprise.

I like to share the fruits of my labor with others, I am such a nice fellow...

Plumpynutt · 18-11-2012 04:40PM

No

I remember saying it to a bus driver in London and getting a confused look from him, which in turn confused me. It was all very confusing

Standard Toaster · 18-11-2012 05:31PM

I'll always say thanks but only if the actual driving was okay. There's some shocking bad bus drivers. Lashing on the brakes randomly or hard unnecessary acceleration. Don't get me started on late bus drivers when there's a driver change.

The brother is a bus driver and yes they do appreciate the thanks they get. God knows they put up with a lot of sh!te from Joe public.

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 18-11-2012 05:45PM

steve9859 wrote: »

Ok..,,I dont get a bus often, but the ones I do get, the doors to get off are half way down.

So how do the 95% of you all say thanks? You shout it down the bus or something?!

You should go up to the front of the bus and bang on his glass. Give him the thumbs up. "Thanks mate. Appreciated. Won't forget this". Then go back to the middle of the bus and alight by the middle door.

Manners cost nothing.

OnTheCouch · 18-11-2012 06:45PM

No

Of course in many countries you enter the bus at the front and leave via the back, so you don't get a chance to thank the driver.

Bodhran · 18-11-2012 07:00PM

No

I'd imagine that those who don't say "thank you" to the bus driver, wouldn't say "please" or "thank you" to anyone else providing a service to them. They've just got no manners!

cartell_best · 18-11-2012 07:11PM

No

Bodhran wrote: »

I'd imagine that those who don't say "thank you" to the bus driver, wouldn't say "please" or "thank you" to anyone else providing a service to them. They've just got no manners!

I believe "those" type of people who don't say please or thank you, even to a service provider, do not use it any aspect of their lives. It's a pity really, because please or thank you, from my perspective, can actually make another person's day a lot easier. After all, its not only acknowledging another persons existence, but showing them appreciation.

We've all seen the news in the last 24 hours of all those poor children killed in a collision with a train in Egypt. A bus driver is more than someone who drives a bus. For that very moment of our journey, we place our very existence in his/her hands.

Quirk_Douglas · 18-11-2012 08:16PM

No

Neewbie_noob wrote: »

Do you say thanks to the driver upon disembarkation? Maybe it's me, but I find it absolutely cringe worthy when people alight from the bus and walk past the driver without acknowledging the driver. I make it my mission to say it every time I pass him.

The white man's burden.

shalalala · 18-11-2012 08:21PM

No

Most of the time I do. But if I thought the driver was bad at driving or had been mean to someone then I won't say a thing. People would prob think I am being ignorant but in my mind the driver knows I usually say it and I am telling him off. Sounds a bit mad actually.

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