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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

bus

had another couple of those bus days recently.
got to listen to two people talking about computer games in a way that would have had jay jumping for joy. both seemed to know what they were talking about. me i couldn't care less as i can't play the ones on www.popcap.com let alone the ones for xcubeboy2boxplayer. it took me a bit of time to work out that one of them was a girl as she was wearing a bikers jacket that hid her shape, a doo-rag (as i believe they are called - see i could be hip...) that covered her hair. i suppose the earrings should have given it away or the pouty lips in the end it was the voice that did it.
it took me even longer to work out that she hadn't known the bloke she was talking to any longer than she had been on the bus and was in fact chatting him up (again something jay would have appreciated).
the best part came when they were going their separate ways when the girl went over to her mate, who seemed less than pleases that she had been ditched while the other one was on the pull. it got worse as gamer chick was trying to talk her friend into letting the bloke join them. friend had to point out that this was their day out together as friends. they nearly came to blows.
it was sweet.
i liked both of them and to see them cat fight would have been fun.


on the bus going to work. it gets to almost work and then stops, over the tannoy we here the driver say everyone get off as there is no replacement driver. gee thanks, that didn't make me late or anything.
what annoys me about that is that the drivers of the 25 spend an inordinate amount of time getting themselve on schedule, this generally means spending an extra minute at each bus stop to the mounting frustration of the commuters. this is increased by the general knowledge that if you are a tad late for the bus and the driver has closed the doors there is no way he is going to open them for you, because all of a sudden they need to stay moving...
oddly the drivers now have to do less, but they have more frequent driver changes on the 25 than they did before.

sunday's bus was packed.
today was quite full, but also had a pissy tramp on it.
the joy of public transport.

2 comments:

Hobbit's Journal said...

Games are the future.

(repeat that several times in your head as a mantra and then move on to 'Nottingham is the capital')

ems said...

You did mention possibly the only positive thing about the bendy buses there - the tannoy. On the old buses you never knew what was going on and had to rely on Chinese whispers rippling out from front to back and up the stairs. Not convinved it makes the monstrosities worthwhile though.