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I was on a bus once that had stopped, not because of traffic, but because there had been a crash a bit further up the street involving another bus. Given that it was a bus that needed shifting i'd guess that some kind of spcialist moving vehicle would be required to get it out the way, so we'd be looking at hours rather than minutes for it to get sorted. I had somewhere to be and could just walk the rest of the way, so i asked the driver to open the doors. Would he? Would he fuck. He honestly intended to keep us all trapped on the bus for however long it took to sort out the mess up ahead, rather than just opening the doors and letting those of us who wished to leave to do so. No traffic was moving and we were right next to the kerb, so there was no possible way any accidents could happen but he point blank refused to open the doors. Health and safety be fucked, the man was just being a prick.
I didn't have the presence of mind of the OP to use the emergency release button though, so i just yanked the fuckers open, told the driver to fuck off and stormed off the bus. Of course, it was made slightly less dramatic by the fact that my initial yank massively underestimated the force required to keep a bus door open, as its constantly being pushed shut by the hydraulics, so it just opened a little bit and then snapped shut again. It's useful info for the future though, if you need to open a bus door for some reason without using the button, make sure and pull it really hard, cos theyre tough.
(unciebana It's good, but it's not right., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 23:14, Reply)