Dear Lord, avoid…read more
The sad thing is they've clearly put a lot of money into maintaining the buses, which seem to run well and are comfortable, even if the wifi's intermittent. Now if they'd only put as much effort into their driver hiring and training.
Had a waaay too tightly-wrapped driver out of Chicago today who started by barking at me about how to hand him the ticket, and just seemed like he was losing it, a lil bit. He had this thumping, pounding music cranked on the bus, then switched it to classic rap & R&B, but you know, it's a bus, people want to sleep and watch their own movies, read, etc. The audio assault went on for an hour, and then he put on one of those screamy, obscenity-ridden, violent shoot-em-up movies. Oh, and he'd already made it clear that we were NOT to talk to him while he was driving unless there was an emergency, so no "hey, fella, how about turning it to headphones only". Nevermind kids on the bus, people trying to rest, etc.
I finally went up to him at a stop and asked him to turn off the noise, and he got super-defensive about it, explained at me what he was doing and what he would do and when in a weird passive-aggressive way. Then he did the same overexplaining at the rest of the passengers over the loudspeaker. Very glad to get off that bus.
Ride takes 1.5 hours longer than Mega, is like a remake of Do The Right Thing, minus good pizza. Maybe I'll just drive next time.
