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A Nice Thing

  • 17-11-2016 9:21pm
    #1
    coolaboola
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭


    On the way home this evening I just missed the bus - twice! - despite my best effort to run to catch it - twice! (Wheezing oul' wan barreling down the road - bus driver, you know you saw me)

    As I slumped along after the bus pulled away from the bus stop without me on it a car pulled up and the driver beckoned me. She said she saw what happened and that it was very mean and would I like a lift home.

    I gratefully accepted. We had a grand chat on the way home, including giving out about the mean bus driver who we both agreed was probably a man on a petty power trip. And she dropped me off right at my front door. There are good people out there. :)

    To B from Enniscorthy and N the budding pianist, thank you for the lift and being lovely people.

    (To the bus driver of the 18 bus in Rathmines at 4:45 pm today, darn you to heck. May your life be as pleasant as you are.)
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  • #2
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Do you mean that while you ran to the stop two buses arrived and left?


  • #3
    coolaboola
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭coolaboola


    No, I ran to catch the 18 bus at Rathmines Garda Station and it pulled away as I reached the bus stop. Then it got stopped at a red light so I ran to catch it at the next bus stop on Grosvenor Road - so the bus passed me as I was running toward the bus stop. And again the bus pulled away just as I reached the bus stop. *sigh*


  • #4
    eet fuk
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭eet fuk


    What if your woman was a serial killer or rapist? What then?


  • #5
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,772 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    eet fuk wrote: »
    What if your woman was a serial killer or rapist? What then?

    She'd be dead and probably wouldn't have posted here.


  • #6
    eet fuk
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭eet fuk


    mfceiling wrote: »
    She'd be dead and probably wouldn't have posted here.

    Not if the driver was only a rapist


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  • #7
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Some bus drivers are complete **** in this regard.

    A couple of weeks ago i managed to chase down the bus and literally 5 seconds after the door was closed and by this stage the bus hadn't even taken off I managed to get to the door and banged on it to ask the driver to let me on.The **** drove off.

    Anyone with any sort of decency would have opened the door and let me on.

    Most of the drivers are sound but there is always one who's just a complete tosser.


  • #8
    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    Nicely written :)


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    The budding pianist sounds like a dick


  • #10
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    Some bus drivers are complete **** in this regard.

    A couple of weeks ago i managed to chase down the bus and literally 5 seconds after the door was closed and by this stage the bus hadn't even taken off I managed to get to the door and banged on it to ask the driver to let me on.The **** drove off.

    Anyone with any sort of decency would have opened the door and let me on.

    Most of the drivers are sound but there is always one who's just a complete tosser.

    you really think a driver should let you on after banging on his door?


  • #11
    BettePorter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭BettePorter


    Yeah I saw this along Grafton / outside Trinity last week. I was walking along heading toward centre and a young lad comes whizzing past me heading for a Dublin bus stopped letting ppl on. He was running toward the bus so the driver clearly saw him but closed the doors seconds before he reached front of bus. I just thought, what a fooking wankstain.


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  • #12
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,018 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    The budding pianist sounds like a dick


    You can't bate a budding pianist
    Actually you can. But you'd better be prepared to clean up the mess afterwards if you overdo it :P


  • #13
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    the groutch wrote: »
    you really think a driver should let you on after banging on his door?

    Banged might be an overstatement.

    Knocked on it is probably more accurate.I knocked on the passengers door.


  • #14
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Should have used the manual button to open the door yourself OP

    I remember on the older buses anyway that you'd get "de lads" in certain areas pressing the centre door button at stops which basically locked the transmission (safety feature) so the bus couldn't move until the driver got up and sorted it

    But yea, had this happen a few times when I used to get buses. Another reason I finally got a car.


  • #15
    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    mfceiling wrote: »
    She'd be dead and probably wouldn't have posted here.

    Or... the murderous old lady is posting as the OP wearing the OP's face as a mask? Is that where you were going?


  • #16
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    coolaboola wrote: »
    bus driver who we both agreed was probably a man on a petty power trip.

    These bus drivers are basically drunk on power.
    First of all the dictator controls who gets on the bus. What time the bus leaves at.
    They won the strike. Rolling in money, feeling invulnerable.

    Are these men providing a public service? Or are they Tyrants?


  • #17
    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Ted111 wrote: »
    These bus drivers are basically drunk on power

    About 300-350 BHP. That is pretty awesome like. I admire them.


  • #18
    nullzero
    Registered Users Posts: 16,334 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    ****


    Those men on their power trips, typical.

    To be fair the bus driver was too busy either counting all the extra money he's earning since the pay deal and or thinking of ways to spend his euromillions winnings, have a heart OP.

    Glazers Out!



  • #19
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    It was myself and a girlfriend of mine that picked the OP up. We kinda thought they might be up for a threesome but sure they wouldn't take the damn hint. Even when my girlfriend asked them directly would they like to see her buddy's penis.


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