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[Orian Tabris]

Beerfish wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Beerfish wrote...

Step 1: make sure you know what bus to take to get to your destination.
Step 2: make sure you know how often and at what times the buss arrives at that stop.
Step 3: Get on the bus and pay your fare.
Step 4: Tell the bus driver you have never taken a bus and tell him where you need to get off.
Step 5: Sit at the front of the bus near the driver.
Step 6: there should be a pull cable that rings a bell that lets the bus driver know you want out at the next stop.
Step 7: Thank the bus driver for his help.
Step 8: Walk to your final destination.

Do I have to do part 7?

YES!

It's not a requirement, but it's a nice thing to do (even if it's their job, and so they will be doing it irrespective of who gets on and off).

I mean, it's not like if you don't, the bus driver will murder knife you.

[Obeded the 2nd]

Orian Tabris wrote...

Beerfish wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Beerfish wrote...

Step 1: make sure you know what bus to take to get to your destination.
Step 2: make sure you know how often and at what times the buss arrives at that stop.
Step 3: Get on the bus and pay your fare.
Step 4: Tell the bus driver you have never taken a bus and tell him where you need to get off.
Step 5: Sit at the front of the bus near the driver.
Step 6: there should be a pull cable that rings a bell that lets the bus driver know you want out at the next stop.
Step 7: Thank the bus driver for his help.
Step 8: Walk to your final destination.

Do I have to do part 7?

YES!

It's not a requirement, but it's a nice thing to do (even if it's their job, and so they will be doing it irrespective of who gets on and off).

I mean, it's not like if you don't, the bus driver will murder knife you.

True, if they gave me a lift for free I'd say thank you otherwise they're just doing thier job.
No thank you for that.
I must be the only person who thinks a thank you must be earned not just thrown around randomly, if everyone did that people would be a lot more happier every time they were given a thanks.

[Beerfish]

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Orian Tabris wrote...

Beerfish wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Beerfish wrote...

Step 1: make sure you know what bus to take to get to your destination.
Step 2: make sure you know how often and at what times the buss arrives at that stop.
Step 3: Get on the bus and pay your fare.
Step 4: Tell the bus driver you have never taken a bus and tell him where you need to get off.
Step 5: Sit at the front of the bus near the driver.
Step 6: there should be a pull cable that rings a bell that lets the bus driver know you want out at the next stop.
Step 7: Thank the bus driver for his help.
Step 8: Walk to your final destination.

Do I have to do part 7?

YES!

It's not a requirement, but it's a nice thing to do (even if it's their job, and so they will be doing it irrespective of who gets on and off).

I mean, it's not like if you don't, the bus driver will murder knife you.

True, if they gave me a lift for free I'd say thank you otherwise they're just doing thier job.
No thank you for that.
I must be the only person who thinks a thank you must be earned not just thrown around randomly, if everyone did that people would be a lot more happier every time they were given a thanks.

My assumption is that since you barely seem to know what a bus is let alone how to get on one that by asking the bus drivier for help they would probably be nice and tell you where to get off, thus the thanks.

[Obeded the 2nd]

Beerfish wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Orian Tabris wrote...

Beerfish wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Beerfish wrote...

Step 1: make sure you know what bus to take to get to your destination.
Step 2: make sure you know how often and at what times the buss arrives at that stop.
Step 3: Get on the bus and pay your fare.
Step 4: Tell the bus driver you have never taken a bus and tell him where you need to get off.
Step 5: Sit at the front of the bus near the driver.
Step 6: there should be a pull cable that rings a bell that lets the bus driver know you want out at the next stop.
Step 7: Thank the bus driver for his help.
Step 8: Walk to your final destination.

Do I have to do part 7?

YES!

It's not a requirement, but it's a nice thing to do (even if it's their job, and so they will be doing it irrespective of who gets on and off).

I mean, it's not like if you don't, the bus driver will murder knife you.

True, if they gave me a lift for free I'd say thank you otherwise they're just doing thier job.
No thank you for that.
I must be the only person who thinks a thank you must be earned not just thrown around randomly, if everyone did that people would be a lot more happier every time they were given a thanks.

My assumption is that since you barely seem to know what a bus is let alone how to get on one that by asking the bus drivier for help they would probably be nice and tell you where to get off, thus the thanks.

If I ask for help I'll thank them 100%, I hear bus drivers can be kinda dicks though.
That true?

[MichaelStuart]

Words are free, so I always say thank you.
The amount of annoying people bus drivers put up with were I live, it is the lest they deserve.

[Obeded the 2nd]

MichaelStuart wrote...

Words are free, so I always say thank you.
The amount of annoying people bus drivers put up with were I live, it is the lest they deserve.

So the people who take the bus are annoying? I can believe that.

[Fishy]

Well you enter the bus and you have a place to put the money.. Change or paper .. But use change.
Take a bus of course that goes in the place you want it to go .. So call a bus station or most city have a web page with all the route and hours and the price. You can purchase a month pass .. In my place it's around 100 per month..

Also don't use the closest bug station to where you live ... Check the one that goes where you want it to go .. Sometime you only have to walk for 5 min for the bus that will take you directly to where you want it to go .. That can save you a frigging longer time.. Trust me.

When you sit on the buss .. Most of the time you have some kind of rope you can pull hanging close to the window. You pull it to signal the driver he need to stop . He still stop at the next place. Sometime they do no stop when the're nobody waiting and if you don't signal the bus driver will not stop. Unless it's  the bus station.

Also if you have more than 1 bus to take.. When you go out you take a ticket for transition.. You ask the driver for it when you enter for the first time the bus .. So you enter .. put the money where it need to go and ask for a transition ticket. Always ask for one if you don't use a pass.. It can save you money.


Also I want to share my secret. If you have high anxiety .. Take the bus when you have nothing to do before the apointement. This way you won't have any pressure and you can adapt. That what I do in a new city .. I take the bus for the whole day .. getting the 'feeling' of how they function before anything important... That help a tons with anxiety.


After a week normally it's become second nature and after a years .. It's more casual than cooking Kraft dinner.

Modifié par Suprez30, 06 novembre 2012 - 01:19 .

[Eternal Phoenix]

I thought it was £2.30? The worst parts of getting a bus (peasant wagon) is waiting in the cold weather for the bus to come and then sitting on the bus with dirty smelling peasants (and most of them do smell). I always dread getting a bus for those two reasons. Then sometimes you see buses overcrowded but thank God I've never had the displeasure on being on one of those.

I mean don't people have showers when they get up in this country? Even the women stick nowadays.

"But we're rushing for the bus!"

That's still no excuse to be sticking.

Oh and by God the worst scenario is if one of them peasants comes and sits next to you. Most of them have a sticking aura around them and are ill and could spread their illness on you. Take something with you to fend them off because they are impossible to reason with.

Good luck and God be with you.

(Yeah I'm half-joking and serious as usual. Most of what my comment says is true though. I'm sure even the poor folk who get on hate it just like the middle class who there are a fair share of on the bus.)

Modifié par Elton John is dead, 06 novembre 2012 - 02:14 .