Comments on: Cell phone sin http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/ What's happened to you on the bus? Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: George http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 George Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:21:13 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1385 I comment rarely on blogs but just wanted to stop and say Great Content. I comment rarely on blogs but just wanted to stop and say Great Content.

]]> By: Jeanne http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1110 Jeanne Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:28:52 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1110 I'm a different kind of bus driver. I have been known to kick people off for offensive language and even for eating on the bus. The "rule" is, you may bring on a drink as long as it has a cover on it. Food is not allowed, but what do you say to someone who gets on with a bag of fast food? How do I know they aren't bringing it home? I did have a teenage girl that got on every day. By the third day, I figured out she was the one leaving sunflower seed shells on the floor every day. I watched her on that third day and saw her letting the shells drop from her mouth to the floor. I pulled the bus over, walked to the back where she was seated and looked at the mess on the floor and then at her. I told her she could either clean that mess up or get off the bus. She looked at the mess. She didn't say a word...she walked out the back door. It was actually pretty funny, and educational for the rest of the passengers! Click on my name for more bus stories...from this drivers perspective! I’m a different kind of bus driver. I have been known to kick people off for offensive language and even for eating on the bus.

The “rule” is, you may bring on a drink as long as it has a cover on it. Food is not allowed, but what do you say to someone who gets on with a bag of fast food? How do I know they aren’t bringing it home?

I did have a teenage girl that got on every day. By the third day, I figured out she was the one leaving sunflower seed shells on the floor every day. I watched her on that third day and saw her letting the shells drop from her mouth to the floor. I pulled the bus over, walked to the back where she was seated and looked at the mess on the floor and then at her. I told her she could either clean that mess up or get off the bus.

She looked at the mess. She didn’t say a word…she walked out the back door. It was actually pretty funny, and educational for the rest of the passengers!

Click on my name for more bus stories…from this drivers perspective!

]]> By: Jay http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1094 Jay Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:25:37 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1094 I don't think there is anything wrong with cell phone use on the bus so long as it is reasonable and not loud. I'll get a call occasionaly and I try to keep it short and speak softly so I am not disrupting everyone on the bus. Just being polite seems to be an easy rule to follow... I don’t think there is anything wrong with cell phone use on the bus so long as it is reasonable and not loud.
I’ll get a call occasionaly and I try to keep it short and speak softly so I am not disrupting everyone on the bus.
Just being polite seems to be an easy rule to follow…

]]> By: John Wilson http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 John Wilson Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:44:01 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1067 One other thing about cell phones: There's been some research into why hearing other people's cell phone conversations is more annoying that hearing an ordinary in-person conversation: the fact that you hear only one side of the cell phone conversation apparently doesn't fit with input the brain is used to... it's like someone singing off key (which I do a lot)! Oh, by the way, if any of you ride in South Minneapolis, do you ever hear me and my Communist friends discussing politics on the bus or train? Do you find it educational, entertaining, or annoying? One other thing about cell phones: There’s been some research into why hearing other people’s cell phone conversations is more annoying that hearing an ordinary in-person conversation: the fact that you hear only one side of the cell phone conversation apparently doesn’t fit with input the brain is used to… it’s like someone singing off key (which I do a lot)!

Oh, by the way, if any of you ride in South Minneapolis, do you ever hear me and my Communist friends discussing politics on the bus or train? Do you find it educational, entertaining, or annoying?

]]> By: John Wilson http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1066 John Wilson Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:19 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1066 I'd say talking on a cell phone at a reasonable volume is OK. Excessive loudness, especially if you're using foul language or talking about an offensive subject, is not OK. As to the comment about enforcing other rules: Since the last strike, drinks in covered containers have been legal on buses. Personally I think non-messy food should be legal at the driver's discretion. That would encourage more bus commuting as people could use their commute time productively. I've rarely seen anyone smoke on buses, thank Laura! I’d say talking on a cell phone at a reasonable volume is OK. Excessive loudness, especially if you’re using foul language or talking about an offensive subject, is not OK.

As to the comment about enforcing other rules: Since the last strike, drinks in covered containers have been legal on buses. Personally I think non-messy food should be legal at the driver’s discretion. That would encourage more bus commuting as people could use their commute time productively. I’ve rarely seen anyone smoke on buses, thank Laura!

]]> By: Nadie http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1004 Nadie Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:26:55 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1004 I don't think its a big deal to speak on your cellphone. I bus from work everyday and sometimes this is the only time I will have to make important phone calls that I didn't get to make during my lunch break before certain offices close for the day, etc. As long as your speak in a normal tone voice. No sex talk, swearing or talking about drug scams though. I don’t think its a big deal to speak on your cellphone. I bus from work everyday and sometimes this is the only time I will have to make important phone calls that I didn’t get to make during my lunch break before certain offices close for the day, etc. As long as your speak in a normal tone voice. No sex talk, swearing or talking about drug scams though.

]]> By: Leon http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1002 Leon Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:48:52 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1002 I'd say it's acceptable as long as the call is utilitarian in nature. For example, "Meet me at so-and-so intersection, I'll be there in five minutes, bye". On one of my last shifts, I had a woman sitting right behind me on a silent bus who who made three separate 10-minute calls to her friends to tell them about her yeast infection. Or the guy who kept yelling into his phone "I keep telling you, it ain't my baby! You gotta believe me!" That's what not to do. I’d say it’s acceptable as long as the call is utilitarian in nature. For example, “Meet me at so-and-so intersection, I’ll be there in five minutes, bye”. On one of my last shifts, I had a woman sitting right behind me on a silent bus who who made three separate 10-minute calls to her friends to tell them about her yeast infection. Or the guy who kept yelling into his phone “I keep telling you, it ain’t my baby! You gotta believe me!” That’s what not to do.

]]> By: Diane http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 Diane Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:52:22 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-1001 saying something to anyone about any of these things is not worth getting beat or shot over, not one person seems to want to back up a bus driver, therefore we are on our own, we are just trying to do are jobs and go home to are families just like you do, sorry these days you are on your own. saying something to anyone about any of these things is not worth getting beat or shot over, not one person seems to want to back up a bus driver, therefore we are on our own, we are just trying to do are jobs and go home to are families just like you do, sorry these days you are on your own.

]]> By: Mel http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Mel Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:16:26 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-974 WWEPD? WWEPD?

]]> By: J http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-971 J Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:53:33 +0000 http://www.bustales.com/route/unknown/cell-phone-sin/#comment-971 I almost forgot! Here's "exhibit A" from "overheard in MPLS" Man with American flag sticking out of his backpack: It’s against the law to eat on the bus, isn’t that right, driver? Bus Driver: Are you serious? Man: Yeah, I’m serious! Woman with drink: I’ll spill this drink all over that chair and make you sit your ass on it! 16 Bus into downtown So I ask you, if there's no drinks allowed on the bus, WTF is the deal with this "woman"? better yet, what kind of bus driver is that?!?! I almost forgot! Here’s “exhibit A” from “overheard in MPLS”

Man with American flag sticking out of his backpack: It’s against the law to eat on the bus, isn’t that right, driver?
Bus Driver: Are you serious?
Man: Yeah, I’m serious!
Woman with drink: I’ll spill this drink all over that chair and make you sit your ass on it!

16 Bus into downtown

So I ask you, if there’s no drinks allowed on the bus, WTF is the deal with this “woman”? better yet, what kind of bus driver is that?!?!

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