The 14A,
was (still is? I haven't seen it in a while) a silly bus for many reasons. It was run by a practically obsolete bus company (in fact I think it may technically be part of Stagecoach, their tickets were printed on the same paper, in the same design, but without the logo at the top and sometimes it's run on Stagecoach buses, but normally the rickety old Redby buses that should have been scrapped years ago). I used to get it home from school despite the fact that hundreds of lovely shiny new buses went up my actual road, so much so that if there was a queue of a couple of buses at the stop I could get dropped off at my front door, and this stopped a few streets away. Mainly because it went from the same bus stop as my best mate's bus and because nobody used this one, well, I'd be guaranteed a seat.
Oh, and the fact that it went up the main road (ie my road) halfway, then got forced up a side street that it took about five minutes (sometimes literally) just to turn onto, and then dodge around cars parked (perfectly legally) at either side of this street. Any car coming the other way didn't stand a chance.
Or, indeed, any car that tried to cross the street in front of the bus and then got honked at very loudly for driving like a twat.
Hence why the drive of said car ran up to the bus when it next stopped, waited patiently for the pack of primary school children to get on, and then launched into a massive sweary tirade at the driver, 'What the fuck do you think you were doing?' 'You could have fucking killed me!' etc etc. Until an old man at the front stood up and told him to fuck off and learn to drive properly. He fucked off.
(and now for someone completely different, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 0:04, Reply)