So very sad

Hammer89 · 17-10-2019 3:30pm #1

If you're from Dublin or live here, you'll know the Dublin Bus driver salute. When two Dublin Buses pass one another, the drivers will invariably salute one another. It could be a head nod, or a wave, or a beep, or the drivers slightly lifting their hand off the steering wheel to acknowledge their comrade on the opposite side of the road. We've all seen it. But today I saw something different.

I saw a Dublin Bus pass a Go Ahead Ireland bus. I watched as the two drivers looked at one another, each of them waiting for acknowledgement before reciprocating, but it never came. The Go Ahead Ireland driver slowly passed the Dublin Bus driver. Standing at the front, I side-eyed my driver to see if a tear would roll down his big fat cheek. Hell, I was sad just watching it, but he was hardened to it.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that they work for separate companies and therefore don't know each other personally, so why would they wave? Thing is, not all Dublin Bus drivers know each other personally. There is or was hundreds of them, but did not knowing one another stop them from acknowledging each other on the road? Of course not because there's a bond there. They're brothers in arms and the fact that the Go Ahead Ireland drivers and Dublin Bus drivers don't share that brotherhood is sad.

brevity · 17-10-2019 3:32pm

When two tribes go to war...

GooglePlus · 17-10-2019 3:36pm

The GoAhead driver was just slow on the reaction, he probably saluted late.

corner of hells · 17-10-2019 3:36pm

brevity wrote: »

When too tribes go to war...

Erm ... imagine if there was another bus company, then tree tribes would go to war.

Bobblehats · 17-10-2019 3:41pm

Was it the 155?

brevity · 17-10-2019 3:41pm

corner of hells wrote: »

Erm ... imagine if there was another bus company, then tree tribes would go to war.

Damn autocorrect

Hammer89 · 17-10-2019 3:41pm

corner of hells wrote: »

Erm ... imagine if there was another bus company, then tree tribes would go to war.

Nobody cares about Imp drivers. Judging by their physical appearance they didn't even care about themselves.

Boom_Bap · 17-10-2019 3:43pm

The real question is, how many cyclists did they nearly hit during this non exchange.

Plumbthedepths · 17-10-2019 3:43pm

I know two DB drivers, they don't even say hello to their kids. What hope has a rival driver got? I bet it was one of those two drivers OP.

Muller1991 · 17-10-2019 3:44pm

GooglePlus wrote: »

The GoAhead driver was just slow on the reaction, he probably saluted late.

We have a thread winner.

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 3:45pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

Was it the 155?

No nobody salutes that driver, but they tend to give the middle finger alright....

brevity · 17-10-2019 3:45pm

Hammer89 wrote: »

Nobody cares about Imp drivers. Judging by their physical appearance they didn't even care about themselves.

Maybe the Ents would be tree tribes

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 3:45pm

Many of them don't wave and quite a few are nervous from what I've seen.

AlekSmart · 17-10-2019 3:56pm

Hammer89 wrote: »

If you're from Dublin or live here, you'll know the Dublin Bus driver salute. When two Dublin Buses pass one another, the drivers will invariably salute one another. It could be a head nod, or a wave, or a beep, or the drivers slightly lifting their hand off the steering wheel to acknowledge their comrade on the opposite side of the road. We've all seen it. But today I saw something different.

I saw a Dublin Bus pass a Go Ahead Ireland bus. I watched as the two drivers looked at one another, each of them waiting for acknowledgement before reciprocating, but it never came. The Go Ahead Ireland driver slowly passed the Dublin Bus driver. Standing at the front, I side-eyed my driver to see if a tear would roll down his big fat cheek. Hell, I was sad just watching it, but he was hardened to it.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that they work for separate companies and therefore don't know each other personally, so why would they wave? Thing is, not all Dublin Bus drivers know each other personally. There is or was hundreds of them, but did not knowing one another stop them from acknowledging each other on the road? Of course not because there's a bond there. They're brothers in arms and the fact that the Go Ahead Ireland drivers and Dublin Bus drivers don't share that brotherhood is sad.

You may need to broaden your horizons a little,I share a stretch of route with several Go-Ahead routes and regularly exchange salutations with their staff,sometimes get a return,occasionally not,which is all OK ?

Perhaps it's a visual acuity thing...and your side-eyed right eye missed the exchange? :cool:

Oddly enough,not ALL Busdrivers feel the need to gesticulate to fellow lodge-members,some may merely raise a (pencilled) eyebrow or lift the nose just a tad.

jiltloop · 17-10-2019 3:57pm

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

I know two DB drivers, they don't even say hello to their kids. What hope has a rival driver got? I bet it was one of those two drivers OP.

Maybe it was both of them!

jimgoose · 17-10-2019 4:12pm

There was a lot to be said for the old broadside, in fairness.

Esse85 · 17-10-2019 4:14pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The real question is, how many cyclists did they nearly hit during this non exchange.

Not enough.

Greyfox · 17-10-2019 4:14pm

Hammer89 wrote: »

If you're from Dublin or live here, you'll know the Dublin Bus driver salute. When two Dublin Buses pass one another, the drivers will invariably salute one another.

Your life sounds like absolute non stop excitement

Plumbthedepths · 17-10-2019 4:16pm

jiltloop wrote: »

Maybe it was both of them!

Possibly they take it in turns to be very cold 'bastards', even trying to outdo one another.
Stay strong private bus driver, you'll get the 'wave' some day.

tdf7187 · 17-10-2019 4:16pm

This reminds me of when the two Thomas Reacts (from Thomas the Tank Engine) accounts on Twitter went to war.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/discover/this-has-to-be-the-weirdest-twitter-spat--ever-722150.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=nextandprev

BDI · 17-10-2019 4:19pm

They have completely different jobs and social statuses, why would they salute each other.

One is a man with a very high skill set. He can drive a bus. He has a pension, a thousand quid a week, job for life, shift allowance, sick pay, probably lives in his own house in Beaumont or just outside Dundrum. Nice wife and kids who will all go to a nice school.

The other guy is just a bus driver. All he can do is drive a bus.

MrAbyss · 17-10-2019 4:37pm

just drive the ****in bus.

ToddyDoody · 17-10-2019 4:42pm

Ah, but the theory goes that it's better to break up cosy cartels.

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 4:49pm

MrAbyss wrote: »

just drive the ****in bus.

10 & 2 or 9 & 3.... That is where they must be ..

Edgware · 17-10-2019 4:52pm

Maybe one was the paedo bus driver and the other was too old for him to wave at when he could be waving at school girls

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 6:21pm

Edgware wrote: »

Maybe one was the paedo bus driver and the other was too old for him to wave at when he could be waving at school girls

I see what ya did there..... ;-)

Hammer89 · 17-10-2019 8:00pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

I see what ya did there..... ;-)

What did he do?

Jonybgud · 17-10-2019 8:51pm

Dublin's a kip....

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 8:54pm

Hammer89 wrote: »

What did he do?

A certain bus driver on the 155 out of Donnybrook is a paedo....

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 8:55pm

Jonybgud wrote: »

Dublin's a kip....

That's why I always get out of it as quickly as possible.

odyssey06 · 17-10-2019 8:58pm

I imagine if there are no passengers they go into full wacky races mode and deploy tacks, spikes, scythes etc...

So very sad

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