How to not suck on public transportation

Sim Kid · #1

-Please at least try to control your kid. It's one thing if they're screaming and aren't stopping when you're trying to calm them down, but another if they're screaming to hear their own voice and you're just sitting there reading a book or looking out the window.

-HANDS OUT OF MY BACKPACK/PURSE/POCKETS!!! I'm not giving you an Indian Burn because I'm a jerk...I'm giving you an Indian burn because your hand was inside my backpack fumbling around!

-Don't leave Dirty Diapers in the bus. Bus drivers and the cleaning crew don't deserve to clean that sort of stuff up.

-Don't stick gum on the seats. Throw it in the trash.

-The shelf nearby the door is not a seat. Yeah, I know, you want a seat, but when it's full you'll have to stand and grab onto a bar.

-If you're the front with the folding-up-seats and someone in a wheelchair comes on, then you have to give up your seat because there is no other place for them to sit. No, you're not some kind of Rosa Parks for refusing to get off the wheelchair-seats - you're holding up the bus. Don't be one of those "I DO WHAT I WANT!!!"-type Libertarians-and-Right-Wingers that give everyone else a bad name.

-The "No smoking within 20 feet of the bus" sign means what it says.

-And lighting up a cigarette INSIDE the bus is definitely within 20 feet.

-If you're making a ruckus on the bus, the driver has every right to kick you off. The longer you just sit there and saying "YOU CAN'T KICK ME OFF!!!!", the more everyone will be ready to stand up and physically toss you out.

-The emergency lever is for emergencies only. It's not a toy.

-This isn't a Karaoke bar.

-If I can somehow hear your music CLEARLY, then you really should turn it down.

Jere · #2

Seen lot's of this on the bus, i allso figured that most stupid stuff, aside from the daipers thing, comes from 14 to 25 ish old boys and girls of any heritage.

Damn this made me sound like a old grumpy man.

Ace Mercury · #3

What the crap. I haven't seen anything nearly as bad as what you've described here. Which city do you live in, so I can avoid it?

Random User · #4

Heh, this reminds me of Epic Beard Man.

Metal Man · #5

My busses just have drug dealers and women concealing sawed off shotguns in their dresses, I don't get what's in the water in your town to make them so crazy.

>_>

Deku Tree · #6

I've been riding the DC metro while I'm here on business. It's been nice.

Sim Kid · #7

Metal Man wrote:My busses just have drug dealers and women concealing sawed off shotguns in their dresses, I don't get what's in the water in your town to make them so crazy.

>_>

Some of those "I REFUSE TO GIVE UP MY SEAT EVEN TO A DISABLED PERSON"-people are basically what we call, "Libbies". As in people so far right and backwards they make Glenn Beck look like Karl Marx.

Ace Mercury wrote:What the crap. I haven't seen anything nearly as bad as what you've described here. Which city do you live in, so I can avoid it?

Half of htis is actually in Denver&Aurora. The other half is in Fort Collins. Both are college towns.

Lurch1982 · #8

Sim Kid wrote: Half of htis is actually in Denver&Aurora. The other half is in Fort Collins. Both are college towns.

You left out the part about being the only tard on the RTD-Light Rail that paid a fare.

Aurora is awful IMO. Denver proper isn't bad for the bus. About the same experience as Chicago IMO (though a little less nutty).

Sim Kid · #9

Denver has a lot of weird people wandering around.

Lurch1982 · #10

Sim Kid wrote:Denver has a lot of weird people wandering around.

Colfax can get kind of sketchy waiting for the bus, but really Denver's pretty tame compared to other cities I've been to. TBH I feel safer in the worst parts of Denver than I did in some of the better parts of New Orleans or Chicago. There's really no part of the area that I feel I'm "giving my life to chance," whereas I'd use that phrase to describe the bulk of the greater New Orleans area and large sections of Chicago.

Still don't understand why they thought it was a great idea to put Light Rail on the honor system though. Crap like that prevents light rail from gaining traction.

Crazyswordsman · #11

-CSM