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A good shove
Man with large gym bag gets on bus. Sets bag down on top step. Man will not pay and tries to talk his way onto bus. Driver picks up bag and throws it out the door and off bus. Driver then gives man a good shove and he flies off bus, damn near into the [...]
Thank You Sister!
I believe it was 1983 or 1984. The now extinct route 52E. I was to be the last person on the bus at Oak and Washington before it took it’s right turn to head for the freeway and downtown Saint Paul. I had one leg/foot on the bus. There was an extremely large woman in [...]
Nemo, the unluckiest driver
This is a story about ‘NEMO’, his nickname will become apparent shortly. He drives the service 36, [a single deck route]. One day he is on route for his terminus which is right outside the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, he has a full load of passengers mostly Japanese and American tourists. He reaches the terminus, [...]
Metro Transit vs. Campus Circulator
A young woman told the driver she needed to transfer to the 3, and asked what stop she should use. The bus driver was giving her some very convoluted directions–get off at a certain stop, walk a few blocks in a certain direction, etc. etc. She was clearly new in town and looked very uncertain.
Get what you pay for
So after a string of car-related mishaps (none my fault of course) I dropped the car at the body shop for the second time in a week, and hopped on the 21 to get to work. Two blocks later the bus engine starts making a really loud noise. The driver pulls over and turns off [...]
Candy Hearts
On Valentines Day our bus driver gave out candy hearts to all the women on board. Then, about halfway through the trip, our driver said to the men on board that he would buy them lunch if they got up and put together a romantic sentence using the candy hearts. Nobody volunteered, but it was [...]
A cheap ride
I was a poor college student who only had bus fare for a non-peak ride. Unfortunately, it was peak time. I got on the bus and dropped in the non-peak fare, avoiding eye contact with the driver, and began making my way to the back. The driver said “Hey, it’s peak, you owe more money,” [...]
Who’s got the keys to the bus?
This happened about fifteen years ago to a driver named Chuck. He was making his last trip of the night, from Hennipen and Lagoon to Selby and Snelling. This was back in the days of paper transfers, when the driver would tear a transfer off a book mounted in the transfer cutter. The transfer cutter [...]
Completely and entirely lost
I took the 672 from work – Plymouth -> Minneapolis downtown as I always do. It was a very bad rush hour day so our bus driver decided that we will take back roads instead. Well, back roads led into more back roads and he got completely and entirely lost. 30 minutes later we were [...]
Can’t reach the pedals
The 4 had it’s hazards on at my stop. As I walked on to the bus, the driver mumbled something at me but i had my ipod on. After a few minutes of sitting there and passengers talking in the background, I took off my ipod and noticed that the driver wasn’t leaving because she [...]
