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//* Voices.. *//
1. Aunties... I hate it when these aunties squeeze all the way past you (when the bus is already crowded enough) just to get to some spot in the bus. Or when they see that a seat has just been vacant, she will squeeze and take the seat as though she deserved it. ARGH. Seriously, we don't owe these aunties anything. It doesn't mean that just because they are older they have the right to be unreasonable and rude. In fact, they are really not that old, and weak (else giving up the seat to them would be perfectly fine). BUT there are some nice and polite aunties out there too. I like these aunties better.
2. One big group of students... Perhaps I've once been part of this sort of group before...but still I don't like them. Especially when I take the bus during peak hours, the group of students always take up alot of space and make alot of noise. They like to block the exit too. Simply irritating having to get past them to get to the end of the bus! Worst still, sometimes they stink! Haha. Just like that time when the bus went past McRitchie Reservoir, and a whole BIG group of students boarded the bus, all wet (from the rain) and sweaty and smelly. I was sitting right at the last row of the bus and when I reached my stop, I decided to skip it; I would rather take a longer time and go to the interchange before coming back, then to squeeze past all of them. Eww...
3. The one person whom I should never be irritated at: the bus driver... This is one in fifteen perhaps. I cannot take it when the bus driver goes at an extremely slow speed (purposely) so that he has to stop at almost every single traffic junction and every single bus stop when there's no one boarding or alighting the bus. It pays to be careful, I know that, but not to this extent for goodness sake.
I guess that's quite enough-- 3 is a magic no. to stop at.
Bus drivers can have quite an attitude too. I was on my way home yesterday at 7 plus after my tutorial, so the bus was really packed. I guess like myself, everyone else wanted to go back soon, and the bus driver jus wants to change shift faster too. Yet, some JOKER has to press the bell when he/she was not going to alight. This happened for about 3 times. So the bus driver got quite pissed, he jus kept looking through the rear mirror, while keeping the exit door open, waiting for someone to alight. He just kept waiting and waiting and waiting. Until the bus driver behind our bus sounded his horn. But still, he waited a while more, as though silently insisting that someone is to get off the bus, until he decided to move off in the end. When the bus driver behind overtook us, he really gave this bus driver some kind of stare. Haha. Both drivers got such attitude, it makes it so interesting to see. But seriously the JOKER was really irritating-- wasted quite some time like that, else I could have reached home a few more minutes earlier after a long day at school.
Despite all these, I still like to take bus, especially to and fro NUS, it's much faster than taking the MRT. I like to take bus with Dear too, cos can take the time to talk to him as well. All in all, without the luxury of a car, simple thing like taking a bus can be a joy too. *minus the inconvenience and infrequency of the bus sometimes*