On occasion, I take a shuttle bus home, this shuttle bus is a big, orange school bus. Some of these school buses are on regular routes picking up small children in the morning/afternoon, then pulling double duty as a university people mover in the evening.
as a result of this, there are sometimes funny lists of rules for the kids, and things like that, but also, sometimes I board a bus that has a 'Body Fluid Cleanup' kit.
I find this mildly disturbing. just sayin'
*
The Crabby Librarian
Monday, March 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
bus-ted
from the local paper, The Ottawa Citizen:
"Any hope for a quick end to Ottawa’s 35-day-old transit strike was dashed Monday, and it’s not clear when negotiations between the municipality and the Amalgamated Transit Union will begin again."
blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
*blinding bus rage takes hold of michelle*
can't...speak...so...frustrated...and...angry...
***
For the full article, please follow this link.
Thank-you and have a good day.
"Any hope for a quick end to Ottawa’s 35-day-old transit strike was dashed Monday, and it’s not clear when negotiations between the municipality and the Amalgamated Transit Union will begin again."
blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
*blinding bus rage takes hold of michelle*
can't...speak...so...frustrated...and...angry...
***
For the full article, please follow this link.
Thank-you and have a good day.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Nine
hey lady...
I was getting up, you saw me getting up to let you out, because we were nearly at your stop...but...we weren't quite there...
so, shoving past me while I'm only halfway moved, while the bus is still in motion, causing you to lurch and fall on my lap and then still, Still climbing over me to get out..was a bit unnecessary.
I have no intentions of keeping anyone trapped on the bus, I don't want to make you late for work...or the Tim Horton's line.
Wait an effing minute and I'll let you out next time..or, oh wait, there won't be a next time because I'm never sitting next to you again.
Love,
The Crabby Librarian
I was getting up, you saw me getting up to let you out, because we were nearly at your stop...but...we weren't quite there...
so, shoving past me while I'm only halfway moved, while the bus is still in motion, causing you to lurch and fall on my lap and then still, Still climbing over me to get out..was a bit unnecessary.
I have no intentions of keeping anyone trapped on the bus, I don't want to make you late for work...or the Tim Horton's line.
Wait an effing minute and I'll let you out next time..or, oh wait, there won't be a next time because I'm never sitting next to you again.
Love,
The Crabby Librarian
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Notes...
My other blog persona "Michelle", as opposed to this blog's persona "Crabby Michelle" (oh who am I kidding, they're both crabby), sometimes posts her complaints using a format called 'Notes to the World', which is a really passive-aggressive way of whining; and so I thought, why hadn't I done that here?
Notes to the Transit World
* To the young man this morning waiting at the bus stop behind me, the traditional instructions for cologne application are as follows: open bottle, sprinkle on scent, go out and face the world.
I think you misread these instructions as: open bottle, pour into bathtub, dive in, go out and face the world, stinking like a vegas lounge. No one finds that attractive and they certainly do not want to board a bus (a fun enclosed kinda space) with you.
* To the HSR, yes, I am addressing you as if you are an entity with thoughts and feelings; you might want to think about occasionally hosing down the inside of your buses..usually I'm not that bothered, but this morning, my bus was Dir-ty...there was no surface I wanted to touch, lean on or let alone sit on and it doesn't make for a pleasant ride.
Fantastic does wonders, really, and those Mr. Clean Erasers..amazing.
* To the highschool student who was texting so furiously that your elbows impeded me caused the complete ruination of a potentially record breaking high score in Tetris: what could possibly be that important at 8:30 in the morning..? Seriously? You're going to school, nothing exciting is happening there. Trust me.
Thank-you for coming out, until next we meet.
The Crabby Librarian
Notes to the Transit World
* To the young man this morning waiting at the bus stop behind me, the traditional instructions for cologne application are as follows: open bottle, sprinkle on scent, go out and face the world.
I think you misread these instructions as: open bottle, pour into bathtub, dive in, go out and face the world, stinking like a vegas lounge. No one finds that attractive and they certainly do not want to board a bus (a fun enclosed kinda space) with you.
* To the HSR, yes, I am addressing you as if you are an entity with thoughts and feelings; you might want to think about occasionally hosing down the inside of your buses..usually I'm not that bothered, but this morning, my bus was Dir-ty...there was no surface I wanted to touch, lean on or let alone sit on and it doesn't make for a pleasant ride.
Fantastic does wonders, really, and those Mr. Clean Erasers..amazing.
* To the highschool student who was texting so furiously that your elbows impeded me caused the complete ruination of a potentially record breaking high score in Tetris: what could possibly be that important at 8:30 in the morning..? Seriously? You're going to school, nothing exciting is happening there. Trust me.
Thank-you for coming out, until next we meet.
The Crabby Librarian
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Eight
Time of Day: Morning
Journey: Home ---> Work
ipod: The Verve
Situation: I get on the bus, I move to the back and I sit down. You get on the bus, and you stop, three inches past the yellow line at the very front, there are seats, room to stand in the middle and at the back, but you station yourself like a sentry at the very front.
Why it's annoying:
Standy McNoMove, who I assume must be a friend of yours, gets on about 2 stops after you, and stands on the other side of the bus entrance, making it nearly impossible for people to get by..and so we wait, at every stop, for people to file through and the driver won't leave until we get people on the bus.
Why do you stand there!?!
What the hell is wrong with you!
I will step on your foot the next time this happens.
The Crabby Librarian
Journey: Home ---> Work
ipod: The Verve
Situation: I get on the bus, I move to the back and I sit down. You get on the bus, and you stop, three inches past the yellow line at the very front, there are seats, room to stand in the middle and at the back, but you station yourself like a sentry at the very front.
Why it's annoying:
Standy McNoMove, who I assume must be a friend of yours, gets on about 2 stops after you, and stands on the other side of the bus entrance, making it nearly impossible for people to get by..and so we wait, at every stop, for people to file through and the driver won't leave until we get people on the bus.
Why do you stand there!?!
What the hell is wrong with you!
I will step on your foot the next time this happens.
The Crabby Librarian
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Seven
Time of Day: Morning
Journey: Home ---> Work
ipod: Foo Fighters
Situation: I left early, to catch the earlier bus, to get to work early. See a theme? I get on the express bus and settle in, outside it begins to pour. We stop downtown, half the bus empties out, and I am left with the usual students. The bus driver gets up and informs us that this bus will not be completing its journey to the school today, it is now out of order, please go catch another.
Why it's annoying:
It's Pouring out. We stand and wait, another bus comes, I board it, but it's not an express. We trundle towards campus only to see another express bus fly by. I check my watch, it's the express bus I would have been on normally, had I left home later.
I got to work 5 minutes later than I would on a usual day.
That did not make me Early.
But it did make me crabby.
The Crabby Librarian
Journey: Home ---> Work
ipod: Foo Fighters
Situation: I left early, to catch the earlier bus, to get to work early. See a theme? I get on the express bus and settle in, outside it begins to pour. We stop downtown, half the bus empties out, and I am left with the usual students. The bus driver gets up and informs us that this bus will not be completing its journey to the school today, it is now out of order, please go catch another.
Why it's annoying:
It's Pouring out. We stand and wait, another bus comes, I board it, but it's not an express. We trundle towards campus only to see another express bus fly by. I check my watch, it's the express bus I would have been on normally, had I left home later.
I got to work 5 minutes later than I would on a usual day.
That did not make me Early.
But it did make me crabby.
The Crabby Librarian
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Six
Time of Day: Afternoon
Journey: Mall ---> Home
Situation: A passenger, clearly fresh from work, gets on the bus with several bags, including one from the LCBO. Every couple of minutes, he fishes a cranberry tinted bottle of Bacardi Breezer out of the bag, to take a swig.
Why it's annoying:
It's the middle of the afternoon, you're on a bus and you're drinking Bacardi Breezer's...really?
The bus is unpleasant enough without a drunken party at the back, in the middle of the afternoon!
Wait until you get home and man up; buy a less girly drink!
The Crabby Librarian
Journey: Mall ---> Home
Situation: A passenger, clearly fresh from work, gets on the bus with several bags, including one from the LCBO. Every couple of minutes, he fishes a cranberry tinted bottle of Bacardi Breezer out of the bag, to take a swig.
Why it's annoying:
It's the middle of the afternoon, you're on a bus and you're drinking Bacardi Breezer's...really?
The bus is unpleasant enough without a drunken party at the back, in the middle of the afternoon!
Wait until you get home and man up; buy a less girly drink!
The Crabby Librarian
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