In Barbados
the buses go round and round the Island, blaring soca and reggae music incredibly loudly. When I went there they played "Mr Boombastic" and everyone completely straight-faced sang along and bobbed their heads in time. "She say I'm Mr Roooo...."

Whenever we went past a bus stop the bus would slow down just so the conductor could hang out the door and shout sexually suggestive comments to the groups of school girls hanging out. They would shout back that the conductor should get fucked - it was like a kind of endless West Indian version of Withnail and I. "Scrubbers!!!"

But the drivers were the most laid back people you would ever encounter. One driver kept driving his bus through one of the worst hurricanes the island had ever seen. They interviewed him afterwards and he said "I noticed there was a bit of a breeze".
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 16:09, 2 replies)

I love the imagery
*click*

Also, it reminded me of that Lilt advert with the woman waiting for the bus which turns up a day late (or something)
( chart cat has an itch, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 3:38, closed)

Bin there
These guys are just amazing went out to St Lawrence Gap late one night you could hear the bus coming before it reached you, got on paid my fare and was handed the biggest joint I'd ever seen, music so loud my ears started to bleed driver obviously out of it shouting "party party party" for the next 7 miles what a journey.
(raith50, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 10:12, closed)