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  • No, you don't get a meal voucher [long]

    I recently had to travel cross-country on a certain bus that's named after a dog. :P On the bus to Denver, it was really messed up. They had to have 2 or 3 sections [buses] because there were so many people, and it meant that the routes got messed up. For example, I was supposed to get there at 6-something and other people were supposed to get there at 8-something. Not sure how we all ended up on the same bus, but whatever.

    So we didn't get there until after 9, primarily because our bus driver had never driven that route before and kept getting lost. It was frustrating, to say the least. Added to that was the confusion about whether we should stand in the St. Louis line or get our tickets changed. The employees kept changing their minds.

    But this is about an SC. So, this guy comes up to me and starts complaining about how his bus got there 4 hours late. OK, I talk to him because I'm frustrated too, and it would be really frustrating to be 4 hours late, miss my transfer, whatever. But he keeps going on about it and how much he hates the bus. [And I'm thinking why didn't you take a train or a plane then? He kept going on about the money, but THEN said he HAD the money for a plane ticket...so I'm not entirely sure what he was going for there...]

    Then he starts complaining that they didn't give him a meal voucher. I'm not entirely sure of the bus company's policy, but I think you have to be waiting a substantial amount of time to get a voucher. I got 2 the last time I rode the bus, but that's because my bus to Denver was 2 hours late and it turned out I had to spend the night in the station. [FTR...that sucked ass.] But like I said, I'm not sure. Still, if they said no...they said no. You don't have to wait long enough. [Which is true. The next bus left at 10-something...and the next bus after that at 11-something. It was only if you couldn't fit on the 11-something bus that you'd have to wait until the next morning.]

    OK, so the line starts moving. He ends up YELLING out at this bus employee how mad he is that he can't get a seat on this 10-something bus [as it's full] and if she could get him a meal voucher 'cause all he wants is a meal voucher. He keeps repeating this. She just tells me that she can't do anything about that and she's really busy right then.

    So then they said we had to go back to the ticket line. *sighs* Fine, whatever. That guy follows me. Another bus employee comes over [dressed in a DRIVER'S uniform] and he starts bitching to HER about how he was 4 hours late and they wouldn't give him a meal voucher, blah blah blah.

    I loved her response. :P She was like, "Do you see this shirt? And this tag? It means I'm a driver. I have no authority over that."

    She also very sneakily put 4 more people on her bus, including me and sadly the SC guy. I had to sit right behind the driver's seat...not a comfy spot, but at least I made it.

    And apparently, the entire way to St. Louis, he bragged about how he was cheating on his fiancee, how girls hit on him all the time [riiiiiight ], and how he had tons of girls all over the United States.

    Then, when we got to St. Louis, he said that he wanted to go to a bar and have a drink...and wanted me to go with him. Um...hell no! For one thing, I'm not going to go haring off to a bar in a totally strange city with some jerk I don't know. And secondly...this particular bus company has a policy about if you're caught drinking, if they even smell a whiff, or find out you've been drinking...they can kick you off the bus/not let you on.

    I still wish I'd found a bus employee to tattle on him and say he'd been drinking, just so I could have been spared the "pleasure" of his company to Pittsburgh.

    Oh. He also stole a glass from a restaurant. We had a 20-minute-or-so break...and he went to a restaurant in a travel center. Brilliant.

    He was a good reminder that no matter how annoyed I got at being late and everything...I should NOT ever act like that!
    "And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride!"
    "Hallo elskan min/Trui ekki hvad timinn lidur"
    Amayis is my wifey

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    This is when I would've somehow gotten the name of his fiancee, where she lived and her phone number and then made a phone call claiming I was the other wo/man that her fiancee was cheating on.
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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      If I could have thought of how to do that, I think I might have...

      On the other hand, the process of getting her name and number would probably have somehow convinced him I was into him. *shudders* *brain bleach*
      "And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride!"
      "Hallo elskan min/Trui ekki hvad timinn lidur"
      Amayis is my wifey

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