Brighton bus drivers

[The Large One]

He probably didn't have correct change

He wasn't even getting on the bus.

Which was probably just as well.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Being short of staff today at the place I work, I ended up having to drive a school minibus.

You'd never guess what the young people on board did for HALF the journey - I'm talking about lads aged 14-16.




















Reciting Shakespeare. Extracts from Twelfth Night to be precise.

Unbelievable!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

You must know all about Brighton bus drivers from up there in Grimsby.

Didn't it occur to you that RM Taylor was born in Brighton ? . Granted , he hasn't been down to Brighton since a holiday two and a half years ago but I doubt the bus driver's attitudes have changed all that much since then.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Maybe Da Man Clay is being "trained to be rude"?

He'll be working on the buses in a couple of weeks, no doubt.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

You should have been on the bus I was on the other night.

Jumped off at Fiveways, just as some young brats were getting on. I didn't see what had happened initially but the next thing I saw when I turned round was the bus driver jumping off the bus, straight through one of the kids, smashed him against the bus shelter, and proceeded to kick him once he'd hit the deck.

Then hit and kick him again once he'd got up.

Charming.

Had he perhaps told the driver YOU were his Dad?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I thought they only recruited lesbians now. The days of the heterosexual male bus driver in Brighton are surely numbered. Perhaps its righteous payback for the sexism of On the Buses.

It all went wrong when Brighton & Hove ousted the Corporation like Homo Sapiens saw off the Neanderthals or VHS saw off Betamax. The Corporation was far cooler but doomed.

Brighton & Hove Buses has recruited women drivers for at least 25 years. In the 1980's a lot of them were former Post Office sorters/van drivers who left RM to go and work on the buses. Bus drivers who wear comfortable shoes are probably more reliable than their straight counterparts.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Maybe Da Man Clay is being "trained to be rude"?

He'll be working on the buses in a couple of weeks, no doubt.

As a cleaner ?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

If music be the food of love play on, give me excess of it in that surfeiting the appetite may sicken and then die,alas no more tis not so sweet now as twas before oh spirit of love how sweet art though...............was like that Ed

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Are they specially trained to be rude, obnoxious and unhelpful or does the company just seek out people like that?

They usually seem OK to me

How stressful would that be tho, having to drive through Brighton's crap traffic all day long, dozy/wino/smackhead pedestrians, arrogant knobs o' cyclists, WAY too many cars, roadworks all over town? Not to mention every second mum with a buggy digging in her purse for five minutes for the correct change and every single foreign student offering up a twenty quid note for a one pound eighty fare. Actually I'm surprised that more bus drivers don't run amok with a lethal weapon having to deal with that shit all day every day. I certainly couldn't do it.

TOTAL respect to the bus drivers

 

[Lord Bracknell]

If music be the food of love play on, give me excess of it in that surfeiting the appetite may sicken and then die,alas no more tis not so sweet now as twas before oh spirit of love how sweet art though...............was like that Ed

Nope.

It was like this:-

SIR TOBY BELCH
O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I
see thee so put down?

SIR ANDREW
Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary
put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more wit
than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a
great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.

SIR TOBY BELCH
No question.

SIR ANDREW
An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home
to-morrow, Sir Toby.

SIR TOBY BELCH
Pourquoi, my dear knight?

SIR ANDREW
What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had
bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in
fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but
followed the arts!

SIR TOBY BELCH
Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.

SIR ANDREW
Why, would that have mended my hair?

SIR TOBY BELCH
Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.

SIR ANDREW
But it becomes me well enough, does't not?

SIR TOBY BELCH
Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I
hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs
and spin it off.

SIR ANDREW
Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece
will not be seen; or if she be, it's four to one
she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.

SIR TOBY BELCH
She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above
her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I
have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't,
man.

SIR ANDREW
I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the
strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques
and revels sometimes altogether.

SIR TOBY BELCH
Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?

SIR ANDREW
As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the
degree of my betters; and yet I will not compare
with an old man.

SIR TOBY BELCH
What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?

SIR ANDREW
Faith, I can cut a caper.

SIR TOBY BELCH
And I can cut the mutton to't.

SIR ANDREW
And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong
as any man in Illyria.

SIR TOBY BELCH
Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have
these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to
take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost
thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in
a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not
so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What
dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?
I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy
leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.

SIR ANDREW
Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a
flame-coloured stock. Shall we set about some revels?

SIR TOBY BELCH
What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?

SIR ANDREW
Taurus! That's sides and heart.

SIR TOBY BELCH
No, sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see the
caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!





Teenage lads going on about legs and thighs. Have you ever heard the like?

 

[Lander]

It is a fact bus drivers are miserable!

Wouldn't you be putting up with prats like THPP just said!

And the staff get to work for the early shift via a staff bus usually, and most engineering staff that "park in the garage to hide" park as buses take a while to get there as it isnt that ideal when quite a few of them live in other towns/villages in Sussex.

And I'm sure none of you actually know how hard it is to drive a bus, the brakes are very harsh on some buses and they are mainly controlled by an engine stop (retarder). Most bus drivers can be nice its just probably at the end of a shift when they are getting pissed off with rude customers...

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Where is Malvio?? and Feste??

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Who said culture was dead on NSC ?

 

[Stoo82]

It sounds like pure thugary Lord Braknell. Kids these days have nothing else to do with themselfs. I blam the government.

 

[bright1064]

Funnily enough I have just had an experience with said Bus company this evening...

I got on a 7 bus from Brighton station, and was greeted by a fairly rude driver who pretty much 'eye-balled' me for getting on the bus with my ticket!
As I went upstairs I thought to myself "All these bloody bus drivers are twats, all the same" etc etc.

Then I changed to get a 1 bus, and was greeted with a really nice bus driver. I've been on his bus before, some of you may have too? He is a Geordie and always has a Newcastle sticker on the front of the bus he is driving. Well I got on the bus, and he was really friendly to EVERY passenger as he always is.

Anyway, I took my seat upstairs and we stopped at a bus stop. One passenger getting off the bus started REALLY laying into the driver, and being deeply unpleasant towards him for no good reason. It was something pathetic about the way that he put his brakes on (the driver didn't brake hard at all!) This was holding everyone up in the meantime, so I shouted down to the bloke to "get off the bus" as he was getting on my nerves. He was quite clearly one of these busy-body people, who like to moan about anything and everything.

Anyway it made me think about how typical it is that the nice people always have to take the shit! The driver clearly loves and enjoys his job, and in a job like that I think the way he is always smiling and is always friendly is a testament to him.

I wasn't about to let some idiot ruin the drivers day, because frankly he is the last bus driver to deserve it! So when I got off I told the driver "For what it's worth, you are one of the nicest bus drivers I've ever seen, don't take no notice of idiots like that!". The bus driver beamed from ear to ear, and it was quite clear that I'd made his day.

That was my good deed for the day, and I feel all the better for it!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Where is Malvio?? and Feste??

I guess they were in a taxi.



Malvolio, btw.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I'm a regular bus user and I find nearly all the drivers are polite and helpful. Obviosly, some will be more polite than others and some get to know regular customers.

There will always be bad ones, or more likely ones who have had bad days. how stressfull must it be when people step out infront of you knowing that, but for your driving skills, you could kill somebody?

And then there are the roadworks and getting it in the neck for being late.

Using the buses so often, i have a fair number of gripes. I usually fire off an email to the company, doubt that it makes much difference but get's it off my chest. I've also had the odd altercation, especially when buses have gone early up the Avenue when they have to come back down again.

To be fair, when i explained to one late night driver what it had meant by him being early, leaving me with a long walk, he turned his bus around and did the 'loop' again.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Where is Malvio?? and Feste??

Micky has been unsucessful in getting these two here on loan , according to the Argus

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Where is Malvio?? and Feste??

Take the first left past Pende

 

[Dover]

I think the bus drivers are bloody heroes in the town. The public can be unreasonable.