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Thanks - I did go a bit OTT but as you acknowledge there are a few cocks on here. You seem to be one of the better people that use the 185 - and there are a few. So thanks.


sophiesofa Wrote:

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> Blimey this thread is compeltely out of control.

> I still think every company has really good, ok,

> and really crap employees, including bus

> companies. We should all try and remember that

> not all bus brivers are meanies.

>

> Beaver14uk when I read the beginning bit of your

> first post I was pleased that you'd come on here

> to stand up for yourself and other bus drivers but

> sadly your post took a turn for the worse. But...

> I don't blame you for being on the defensive

> because on earlier pages of the thread there had

> been a lot of comments about bus drivers having no

> brains. If I was a bus driver and read that I

> would be extremely pissed off. Please don't drive

> through East Dulwich and think we're all cocks and

> in return I won't get on a bus and assume you're a

> cock.

I don't think so



Muley Wrote:

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> I suspect that 'Lenk' is the username of Angry

> Nigel. The bad driving is a result of trying to

> control a large vehicle and type on a Blackberry

> simultaneously, and the rudeness is due to

> annoyance at passengers constantly interrupting

> the posting of his wit and wisdom on the EDF.

>

>

> Perhaps arrange to have him abducted by clowns

> when Zippos returns?

beaver14uk Wrote:

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> You had best ask Nigel that question next time you see him if indeed you have the front rather than hiding behind a keyboard.


I'm not hiding behind a keyboard, I'm just using it to type.


You know and speak to "Nigel" so I thought you could ask him a question, that was all. Obviously not.

I was also praising the work the rest of you do (see the bit that says "hard work and good service"). I was not asking for a comparison with fare evaders or a rude answer, just asking how you felt about this "Nigel" spoiling your good reputation.

Wow! Beaver14uk takes control of the thread and some.....


Having been suitably shamed, I will endeavour to say 'good morning' to all bus drivers from now on.

And will take the registration number of, and report any driver who does not say 'good morning' back.

I parked outside the Clockhouse on Barry Rd when a bus pulled up beside me. The driver opened his doors and started shouting and swearing at me because he didn?t like where I had parked. I looked at him and said ?what?s your problem; you could get a bus through there.? He closed the doors and drove away. Only time I have had a snappy comeback at the right time instead of the next day.

No because I have been on another route today - where people do actually say please and thank you to the driver.



immaterial Wrote:

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> Had any interesting adventures with the ED

> commuters today, Citizen Bus Driver?

Think you will find that Arriva operate the 176.



Mark Wrote:

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> beaver14uk Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > No because I have been on another route today -

> > where people do actually say please and thank

> you

> > to the driver.

>

>

> The 176?

Personally, if I was a bus driver, I'd dread and possibly even go so far as to say hate the pick up through ED. I always thought it must be horrid going through areas like Brixton, Herne Hill, Streatham or anywhere on a main school bus route but WOW and OMG! if I had to go through ED :-S

KoolBananas Wrote:

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> Personally, if I was a bus driver, I'd dread and

> possibly even go so far as to say hate the pick up

> through ED. I always thought it must be horrid

> going through areas like Brixton, Herne Hill,

> Streatham or anywhere on a main school bus route

> but WOW and OMG! if I had to go through ED :-S



Quite so. I mean ED with the appalling traffc jams, the violent and abusive pssengers with their offensive smiles and "pleases" and "thank-you"'s. Gve me a trip through Brixton any time - with screeching children being slapped in their prams by angry teenage mothers; surly youths chomping on smelly fried chicken, playing their music loudly and giving dirty looks at anyone who looks remotely irked; gags of teens with their jeans round their knees, effing and blinding and disrespecting each other; mad housewives with their shopping trolleys cursing at the driver etc etc. Compared with such civilised districts I am sure ED must be a descent into Hell!

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