Overheard on a bus - an explanation.

As positive as I try to be, a lot of times this site ends up being a laundry list of things I can't stand. This comes as no surprise to me, as it seems to be a trend in my life. That is, I may not be good at finding success, but seem to have an uncanny ability to spot bullshit, stupidity, and people being general morons.


(Not that I’m ever a general moron – no).

Uh... Anyways … one of my major pet peeves is being forced or subjected to something that could easily be stopped by a higher authority.

Case in point – when riding public transportation like a bus, there are rules posted that indicate that riders should not bother other riders. In my case, one of the specific Common Sense Guidelines is to ‘Respect other passengers' privacy’.

As I’m not an employee of the public transit authority (and neither are most of the general rider population), enforcement of said rules typically falls on the driver (oh sorry, ‘coach operator’).

Problems arise because I’ve found most bus drivers to be idiotic, or they do stupid things, like be racist, and therefore are unable to concentrate on anything but drive the bus, or too stupid to actually do part of their job and enforce the ‘Common Sense Guidelines’.

Never mind that ‘Unreasonably disturbing others by engaging in loud, raucous, unruly, harmful, abusive or harassing behavior.’ ... is a criminal offence.
So, if such behavior is criminal, and drivers are supposed to enforce it, why then am I subjected to it regularly by other riders? In other words, why are other riders morons?

I respect the ‘guideline’. I mind my own business.

But for some reason, there are individuals who maybe due to inadequate parenting, or for some other reason, cannot seem to get that the rest of us don’t want to hear Rihanna pumped up on your phone loud for us to ‘groove’ to. Or, that I don’t care if you missed your flight because you slept in, again, and need to complain about it?

What bothers me more is the lack of enforcement.

So, what’s the solution? How can I ‘fight back’, even if it’s otherwise meaningless?

Well, it occurred to me I have a blog. It also occurred to me that taking down the information I’m forced to hear on the bus is my own business.

So, why not print it out here? My hordes of readers can decide for themselves on the level of idiocy.

With that in mind, I present the first two installments of ‘Overheard on a bus’.


1) 01/20/2011

People: Caucasian female, mid-20’s, bottle blond, glasses, overweight, and appeared to be wearing blue scrubs.

Evidently all the men in her life are perverts even though they are married and have kids, and are all hitting on her. She also cannot stand all the assignments she gets at school. They are below her, but she doesn't feel the need to complete them - it's a waste of her time.



2) 01/21/2011

People: Caucasian female, early/mid-30’s, bottle blond, slim and Caucasian male, early 40’s.

Tang is apparently a great thing (better than orange juice) along with Vanilla Wafers were the best thing about Sunday school. I don't know why, but I cannot begin do describe how many levels that's fucked up.