Sue, with your folksy roots, I think you might be the legend of zelda. If so I would like to play you with a wii. To my earlier point about buses definitely being worse, I must confess, this is pure anecdotal evidence. Much like Sean, and others on here, I have spent much longer waiting for my buses of late - if it were just on my way into town (routes 12, 63, 363) I might say roadworks. But s'more than that - I take buses all over, I like to look out of the window, I'm lazy and like to walk as short a distance as possible- and this has been going on for minimum a couple of months, here (in ED and Camberwell environs), at Elephant (in both directions) and in town. Anecdotal, and as I've said earlier, might be coincidence. But you deniers out there are clearly an albino conspiracy. How can you be any more sure that it isn't than it is?