Sep 29 2006
He yells and he cusses, and smells up the busses
Today, as I was ensuring I didn’t have to lug three tonnes worth of glossy publications and leaflets[1] by hand, I got the the bus to work. Okay, I’ll admit it. I usually get the bus to work. But I’ve been prety good recently about walking home. As I was saying, as I was getting the bus a fine and upstanding member of Garda Siochana pulled us over.
See, the was a bus already picking up passengers at the stop at the top of O’Connell St., so our bus driver pulled in behind and let the people get on. Only this very fine member of the Traffic Corp didn’t like this. And proceeded to tell him to pull in and then ticketed the the bus driver.
Honestly. What a load of crap. Especially seeing as he wasn’t stopping anywhere that he wouldn’t have been stopping anyways. I mean that he would have had to wait behind the other bus in any case, so he wasn’t causing any more of an obstruction to the rest of the traffic than he should have been. Fussy cops.
But as we sat, watching the lights change from green to red to green to red, as the garda wrote out his ticket, this crazy woman came along and asked the bus driver if he’d be so good as to open the door so she could hop off and grab and Metro while we waited. Was she insane? The bus driver gets a ticket for stopping a few feet short of where he should do, god only knows what the cop woulda done if he’d opened the doors again between stops and let some get on and off! The horror of it all.
Anyone use Google Reader? Isn’t the new layout very snazzy altogether? Must start learning those shortcuts so I never have to use the mouse again 
- from the college higher options thing I mentioned a while back ↩
