Complaining because the bus is running on schedule...

[ElizabethBennet]

So I get on the bus at 10 AM this morning to go to work and I'm minding my own buisness, until about 10 mins in when the girl two seats behind me just starts moaning and complaing that the bus is going too slow. She attempts to rile the driver (BG: I've known him for as long as I've ridden city buses and he is probably the best as far as being on time and keeping the bus civil) loudly and unsuccessfully. He pretty much ignores her. Then she begins verbally accosting passengers that are getting on the bus at different stops.

During the course of this I overhear that she works at a big box store accross the street from where I work (meaning we will get off at the same stop at 10:40AM.) And that she is supposed to start work at 10:30 AM. (Buses run the stops every 30 mins so if she'd gotten on a half-hour sooner she'd have gotten there at 10:10 AM, 20 mins early.)

When she reaized that the bus wasn't going to speed up just for her (that was the first Saturday I can remember in a long time that it actually made every stop on time or early) She whips out her little boost mobile chirper phone (I HATE those) and calls up the Public Transit Office and demands to speak to a supervisor. She then goes into "WHINEBITCHMOANCOMPLAIN" mode breaking to yell to new passengers that the driver is slow/incompetent and doesn't know what he is doing. The Supervisor on the phone tells her that there is realling nothing he can do, because the bus is running on time. She then gives an angry bark and hangs up on Supervisor. Whaddya know its 10:40 and time to get off the bus!

So that was an enjoyable ride, no?

[csdrone]

The phrase "sorry your lack of planning is not our problem" comes to mind with Ms. deliberately late to work.....

[Crazeyal]

One of these days I'm gonna get arrested for hating someone to death.

[Trayol]

One of these days I'm gonna get arrested for hating someone to death.

There's a power I would love to have.
I would hate to be the coroner for that case:
"So how did this man die?"
"He seems to have been killed by hate!? This man was hated to death."

[mattm04]

Where did she get the number for the Public transit Office. Are the posted inside each bus? I have never really noticed that on the few time I have ridden the T(Boston's Subway). The again I plan ahead and make sure i leave plenty of time, epically if in a unfamiliar,ilar city.

[lightmylamb]

What is a "boost mobile chirper phone"?

I think I would've said something, but then she probably would've turned her torments on me. Then I'd be all "You wanna take this outside?" and she'd be all "Yeah", so we'd get the bus driver to stop momentarily, and I'd allow her to exit first, then the bus driver would close the doors and speed off while I was still on. Then we'd be best friends forever. The bus driver and I, that is.

[tropicsgoddess]

If that SC wants to complain about craptacular public transit, she should try the one here in Fort Lauderdale.

[Sliceanddice]

boost mobile is of course a mobile company, that is mostly pay as you go, http://www.boostmobilestore.com/bpdi...o?action=view#, im guessing a 'chirper' is one of those phones for when they had those damn chirping comercials

[Sparky]

Complaining about bus running on time? This suprises me not at all.

Two episodes from my previous life (which is how I refer to my bus-driving days) jump to mind. One occurred when I was sitting at a layover spot. Now I know the passengers didn't particularly enjoy sitting in the YMCA parking lot for five minutes, but the time was built into the schedule and there was nothing I could do about it. Some old goat said "Honey, we're still waiting" in the nastiest, most sarcastic tone possible. I told him I didn't take orders from stinking drunks.

The one that most peeved me though was from some highschool kid. He would ride the first bus in the morning. Now, I had a habit of leaving downtown five minutes late on that run. This is because traffic was so light that I would still get to the end of the line, the high school, on time. In fact, I'd get there five minutes early. This was an hour before school started, so no idea why he wanted to get there so early, but he did. He complained about me leaving late (I enjoyed my little extra coffee break, and had a habit of eating breakfast then). I explained that I left late on purpose because otherwise I'd run early. He said, in the tone your first-grade teacher used when you were naughty, "Everyone else can leave on time so I'm sure you can manage to leave on time too." So after that I made a point of leaving right on time. And halfway to his desitnation, I'd pull over and wait a full ten minutes (enjoying my coffee) so that I arrived at the highschool right on time. See, he wasn't actually complaining about being late; he was complaining that he was only getting there five minutes early instead of ten minutes early. He called the office to complain about me too. Too bad, so sad. The dispatcher told me to do what he asked. I refused. Nothing more was done because they couldn't discipline me for refusing to run ahead of schedule. I really kind of wished they'd tried.

[One-Fang]

Hehehehe. What else are you supposed to do? You should leave on time, I agree. But if you get well ahead of schedule, you must wait. It would unfair to customers arriving at those stops just before the posted time if you'd sailed past 5 minutes ago.

[Difdi]

The only time I've ever complained about an on-time bus...

This one route local to me is always late. It's always late by the same amount of time. In fact, you can just about set your watch to it. 99 times out of 100, it will be exactly 6.5 minutes late. It's been exactly 6.5 minutes late for years. I'm not kidding. It's something of a local joke, in fact.

Then one day, the regular driver was sick, and they had a temp driver. On that day, almost everyone who rides that route to work missed the bus. Because it was exactly on time.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I'd love to hear what she said to the boss when she got to work.

"Sorry I'm late - That damn bus was running ON TIME!!! There was nothing I could do!!"

[froglet]

I'd love to hear what she said to the boss when she got to work.

"Sorry I'm late - That damn bus was running ON TIME!!! There was nothing I could do!!"

Do you really believe she told the TRUTH?

"OMG! This total JERK of a driver was running SOOO late! He was just so stupid! (doubt she would know the word incompetent which is what she would mean) I tried to make him hurry, but he just flipped me off! You could tell the rest of the passengers were annoyed too, anytime I'd complain, they'd groan too!"

Ok, I'm gonna stop channelling suckage now.

[mariamousie1]

There's a power I would love to have.
I would hate to be the coroner for that case:
"So how did this man die?"
"He seems to have been killed by hate!? This man was hated to death."

That would be an interesting episode of CSI. "Well, Grissom, got a scientific explanation for this?"

[Difdi]

That would be an interesting episode of CSI. "Well, Grissom, got a scientific explanation for this?"

"well, you see, the poor man was empathic. The sheer intensity of the hatred caused an aneurysm"