walking along Cowley Road in Oxford is hazardous at the best of times
but you would have thought staying on the pavement would keep you safe from buses - not so!

Waiting for the bus to take us back to halls, I looked up to see if the bus arriving at the stop was ours - it wasn't - but what it did do was get so close to the pavement that it's big dangly mirrors hit a friend of mine square in the back of the head, and pushed her far enough to topple her over!

She had a bump on the back of her head and a confused look on her face

The driver was mortified

We, like the drunk bastards we were back then, all howled with laughter as we helped her to her feet....
( Ralph farts in your general direction, Thu 21 Jan 2010, 14:13, 2 replies)

This nearly happened...
...to an old boy on High Street. The Blackbird Lees bus was pulling in and the dozy git just stood with his arm out as the bus arrived. The driver had to brake sharpish to stop from taking the guys' arm off as it was still stuck out. Tit! Though normally bus drivers in Oxford are the idiots...
(satanstolemyteddybear Mu hõljuk on angerjaid täis, Thu 21 Jan 2010, 15:47, closed)

Sounds familiar
They knocked me flying once on Cornmarket Street. Probably the highlight of the experience for me was watching the friend I'd been chatting to slowly realise that I'd somehow disappeared...
(purplegod counting down for Christmas!, Thu 21 Jan 2010, 21:31, closed)