After using buses and trains almost every day for the last 10 years I have managed to compile my hatred for public transport into four short points. Because it wouldn't actually be so bad if all of the passengers just behaved like normal fucking humans.
Reasons Public Transport Sucks Ass.
1. The smell: I do not understand why or how every single bus in the Glasgow area smells like piss. This again relates to the idea of the other passengers not behaving normally because clearly, at some point in time, someone has pissed them self on this bus. Therefore making the 45 minute long journey to work in the morning a lot more unpleasant than need be. If it's not the smell of piss it's food? Not the smell of a lovely chocolate pastry on the bus oh no, it's someone who has chosen to sit right beside you eating the smelliest tuna sandwich they could find or the strongest packet of cheese and onion crisps.
2. The noise: Oh dear lord the noise. If it isn't the insistent smacking of food in your ear it's a child crying their eyes out or a mother loudly trying to console them. It's teenage boys and girls and their shrieky goosebump provoking overly loud laughs coming from the back of the bus. Worst of all- the music players. I sit on the bus/ train with my earphones in enjoying my latest music purchase to then be interrupted by some individual strutting onto the bus wearing their finest tracksuit and playing the latest bass hunter song through the speakers on his phone. Like, excuse me, you see what I'm doing here? You see these little things in my ears? They're called headphones and I use them (mainly so people don't know I'm secretly listening to Britney Spears) so that my music choice isn't an annoyance and inconvience like you're being right now.
3. The creeps: especially on nighttime journeys there always has to be some creepy guy who decides that you are the chosen one to hear his life story which you literally couldn't care less for, as your main focus is his alcohol scented breath being so close to your face. There's always the guy who has a few teeth missing who moves to sit beside you and says you're "the most beautiful lassie he has ever seen". Please people, let us endure our journey home without being creeped on.
4. The time it takes: Trains are not so guilty of this one. Buses however, let's hope you're never in a hurry if you're travelling by bus. Actually, it seems the later you are, the longer the bus will take. If you're in a rush there is no doubt that the bus will stop at every single stop and the passengers will take what seems like forever to retrieve their money from their purses. A 15 minute journey can easily needlessly turn into an hour.
So what about you guys? Do yous hate public transport just as much? What's your least favourite thing about it?
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