BusesWe've got a local bus driver who likes to pull away slowly just to see how far old ladies with shopping trollies will chase him down the road. By popular demand - tell us your thrilling bus anecdotes.
Thanks to glued eel for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 13:14)
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Not bus related but near enough and a blatant pearoast.Blatant Pearoast
Not traumatic for me as such but I nearly gave myself a hernia laughing.
Sheffield gets a lot of bad press regarding its public transport system. To be fair as if you don't live on the tramline you're stuck with First (the worst) Buses.
Being fortunate enough to live slap bang in the middle of the City Centre I am able to catch trams to just about anywhere that I may need to be.
Right so having begun the trip out towards the cinema just outside the City Centre I am happily sat upon the tram as we pass through the outskirts of Sheffield. As the Tram arrives at the Attercliffe stop for whatever reason the driver has pushed the wrong button in the cab and both sets of doors have opened. Nothing overly fascinating in that. My attention is drawn away from the extra set of open doors to an elderly lady in her mobility scooter. The tram platform and the entrance to the tram are about level, occasionally there is a lip of a couple of inches.
As the lady is trying to get the scooter on to the tram she is hitting the lip. The conductor makes his way down and utters the immortal line.
"Jus' rev it me duck, you'll be reet"
She follows these instructions with aplomb. Backing the scooter up about ten feet. She hits the accelerate and becomes a blur. She hits the little lip buggy bounces up into the tram. Sadly she didn't apply the brakes as quickly and promptly shot out the (mistakenly) open doors opposite landing on the opposite side of the track and crashing into the platform.
To this day it is probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
The conductors reaction was just as funny. After looking through the doors to make she was ok, which she was, he simply called after nher
"Look here Penelope Pitstop, this is a tram stop not the start line in Wacky Races"
I have never had the misfortune to simultaneously wet myself and soil myself but i was pretty fucking close that day.
Length she went a good six feet past the tram before she landed.
(, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:22, 1 reply)
Just as good as the first time I read itCheers!
(, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 11:05, closed)
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