Having spent three years as a student travelling to and from Aberystwyth
where there is -usually but not always- a train every two hours, and now living in the outskirts of Norwich, I probably have more than my fair share of terrible public transport stories.

Here's a Norwich one:

I was nearly two hours late for a works do in Norwich after the bus I was in hit someone. A pair of teenagers were trundling along the path, one on a push bike, the other on one of those damned mini moto things. The one on the mini moto suddenly just fell sideways, completely rigid, into the road. Kind of like a plank of wood. And got hit by the bus.

To be fair though, the bus driver breaked so quickly, she was obviously on the ball. Which was maybe unfortunate for the lad standing near the front of the bus... he went flying forward and hit his head against the windscreen with enough force to shatter the glass.

Cue sitting on the bus, having to wait while the ambulance and police do their thing... and while the bus company send a replacement bus, which is what took a longer. While getting snotty text messages from people already in the pub. Because obviously, I'd chosen to have the bus journey from hell instead of sitting in the pub getting drunk.

I believe both casualties were fine. Incidently, the lad who broke the window declined the advised trip to hospital because him and his mate were on the way to play snooker. [I told someone at work this, and -for anyone from Norwich - they said "Well, that's people from West Earlham for you" ].
(deviant fluffy bunnies has nothing funny to type here, Thu 29 May 2008, 21:55, 3 replies)

I have felt your pain.
Yes that sounds exactly like someone from West Earlham! I lived there for 5 years when I was working at FRI up the road.

Then I moved to Peterborough, where they would seem like Nobel laureates by comparison.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Thu 29 May 2008, 22:57, closed)

Aberystwyth Train
Loads of students, Loads of luggage, and a two coach sprinter train. You'd think they'd learn wouldn't you?

Been there, seen it, bought a car soon after
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Fri 30 May 2008, 0:02, closed)

West Earlham
You know the average amount of GCSEs obtained at Earlham (A-E) is 2?

NICE!
(TheHBoxster is probably playing Beatles Rock Band on, Fri 30 May 2008, 17:11, closed)