Freezie debate
As many of you may know, it’s against the rules to bring food on the bus. I usually don’t enforce this, unless someone tries to bring something extremely messy on. I pulled up to a stop in Richfield, and a kid, probably in highschool, was waiting with an already-opened freezie (basically a snowcone in a plastic tube).
It was warm on this day, and I feared that he would drip all over the seats. I told him he couldn’t ride with it, and after some bargaining, I agreed to let him on if he dumped out the top part of it and didn’t eat any.
He sat in the side-facing seat directly behind the driver, which is the only spot the driver can’t see in the mirror, and when he got off on Lake Street, he wasn’t holding his freezie anymore. By the time it occurred to me that he had eaten it, he was out the door and I had lost the opportunity to slam the door in his face.
Sure enough, when I got to the end of the line, I found an empty freezie wrapper on the floor of my bus that I had to pick up. Disrespectful little *&@$, he should have been grateful that I let him ride at all. Most drivers wouldn’t have even given him the opportunity to debate. I was really hoping he would be waiting to catch me on the way back, so I could yell at him and let him wait for the next 4.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
That and people who eat sunflower seeds and spit the nasty, slimey hulls on the floor should be made to clean this crap up….if only we could make them.
May 26th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I did that once. I remember being told you can’t eat on the bus by the driver after he saw me carry some candy bars on. So i ate them during the ride and left the wrappers in the seat. I laughed the rest of the day! You bus drivers could use the excersise of picking up the wrappers so i don’t want to hear any complaining. Ha!Ha! Some of the buses have a special mirror so the driver can see who is sitting in the side seat directly behind the driver. It isn’t against the rules to bring food on the bus. Just eating it is. Some times if someone is eating hot food with a strong recognizable odor(like barbecue chicken wings for example) the driver will just yell out “Hey you back there–Do you want to share that with the rest of us?” and that usually takes care of the problem.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Littering is one of my biggest pet peeves. You have a wrapper and you hold onto it until you find a garbage can- this is really not a hard thing to do. It saddens me that people are so lazy and selfish that they no longer care about the aesthetics of their environment. Bus drivers have a hard enough job- they shouldn’t have to pick up other people’s trash too.
Jun 19th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
we are not janitors we are bus drivers in you all want to sit in a pile of trash go for it ! I don’t care I don’t sit back there
Apr 8th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Every bus driver has his own set of rules. Last bus driver i had said he doesn’t care what you eat on the bus as long as you clean up your mess. Another driver said before that one Asolutely No Eating on the bus except for popcorn, gum, or peanuts. Some drivers won’t let you drink anything at all for fear of it being liquor inside the container.