I only say thanks if there nice if they drive the bus like its a F1 race car they can go to hell they toss the old people around like rag dolls when they do that.
Also some bus drivers wont stop for you unless your standing right at the post if your running and your five feet from the post they keep going.
Also they keep hiking the rate up.
[QUOTE=JesseR92;24875223]some bus drivers wont stop for you unless your standing right at the post if your running and your five feet from the post they keep going.
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This, This, a million times this.
I can't stand it when I look a bus driver in the eyes (via mirror) while running to the stop, they see me, and close the door, and drive away.
They know I need to be on the bus, they can't stop for ten seconds? that ten seconds isn't going to put them off their normal route, it's shorter then an unexpected red light, which, their route times already compensate for.
I always say: "Have a nice day." :)
UNLESS THEY ARE FUCKING LATE! (As in, it's one of the first stops on the route and they are over 5 minutes late.)
Busses are mass transport here.
You get in in the front and out at the back.
I say good moring when I get in but im not shouting 'thank you' trough the bus when I get out.
(Netherlands btw)
I've had a couple free rides by just being polite to bus drivers.
this "i dont thank the bus driver"
dosnt happen in denmark busdrivers are often popular some get the brithday song sung on their birth day you would be lucky to be a busdriver in denmark
[QUOTE=da_maul;24875494]this "i dont thank the bus driver"
dosnt happen in denmark busdrivers are often popular some get the brithday song sung on their birth day you would be lucky to be a busdriver in denmark[/QUOTE]
I rarely see other people thanking bus drivers (or anything else) in Denmark :) (Hvilken by bor du i?)
Here you never say thanks to a bus driver unless you come running like hell and he opens the doors for you when he was about to leave. Some are kinda nice and says hi when you enter, then you usually say hello back. But never good bye, I think the above is good enough.
I never do this. I say "Hi" when I get on the buss, but that's it.
I don't think it's neccessary.
Here in the Netherlands bus drivers get beat up all the time. :smith:
I just walk off and say "cheers mate".
They always say "you're welcome" or "no probs" in reply.
Unless they are a douche.
Hey, if cars were stripped off the roads, and only buses/trucks were allowed on road, then people might appreciate their bus drivers a bit more.
i give them the peace sign
[QUOTE=Dutchlike;24876014]Here in the Netherlands bus drivers get beat up all the time. :smith:[/QUOTE]
Yep I get in the bus every morning and they get beat up almost every day.
A lot of bus drivers in Britain are moody fuckers and are paid just as well if not better than any other average job. I do say thanks but some of them are just twats.
I've never heard anyone thanking the driver
Say thanks if you want to, don't force people to. Manners is part of who you are. You force them and suddenly you devalue manners all together into just some sarcastic statement people cringe at.
Also, no one lives on $2 an hour. Get your facts checked.
I say thanks and sometimes even make conversation if it is my free uni bus and the guy has a coffee break but I'm in the UK.
Most people in Auckland say thanks to their bus driver.
Driving to school makes you cool
I'm assuming the bus drivers in question here are those who drive school buses, or are were talking about public transport?
words are ultimately meaningless.
I always say thanks for my ride, it's common curiosity :unsmith:
[QUOTE=CounterTunes;24876940]I always say thanks for my ride, it's common [b]curiosity[/b] :unsmith:[/QUOTE]
i'm like, totally [i]piqued[/i] man.
I don't say thanks ever because every bus driver in england is a fat bastard who's racist. A slim white-tshirt wearing cockend who loves to pull out in the middle of the road while you're going at 30 in a 35 zone, or an absoloutely insane middle-aged woman who thinks that she's riding a bike to go pick up the dog from playschool or something like that.
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Or he deliberately ignores you so you get dragged under the wheels and murdered brutally.
Or he overcharges you, doesn't give you back your change. and makes a racist comment about your friend.
A bus driver told me not to talk with him when he is working when i thanked him, so i am not doing it again.
Why the hell should I thank the bus driver? It's his job to drive the bus. It's not like he was forced to do it or he's doing it out of the kindness of his heart. It's not like someone thanks me for the jobs I do. People act really self-entitled and it makes me sick.
I normally thank the driver, but so many of them around here are grumpy bastards and talk to you like crap.
Also Arriva are are thieving bunch, they raise the bus prices every year. I have to pay £5.50 (About $9) for a ticket into Newcastle (About 15 miles from here)
I dont think they could ride on the fuel excuse because the buses going into the city can hold about 80 people seated iirc and they are normally at least half full, there is also a bus every 15 mins. Thats $300-400 per bus for them, $500-700 in peak hours, yet they they still keep ramping the prices up every year.
I always thank my school bus driver.
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