Personally at home, I never use public transport, as my work is a 20 minute walk from my house.

Have you ever been to Florida?

Yeah, having been to Florida I can totally see where you're coming from. My wife and I made the mistake of forgetting our drivers licences when we went to Orlando a couple of weeks ago, and pretty much had to take taxis everywhere because there was no way we were waiting for the I-Drive trolley in that heat.

Definitely need to drive next time I go, now that I'm a bit more used to the roads.

I live in Florida. What's the problem?

I live in Florida. What's the problem?

I believe you have outlined it right there... Heh.

No no. I live in a town in England. It's not the infrequency of the busses that annoys me. It isn't the incompetent drivers. It isn't the people who haven't showered for five days and prefer to stand with both arms on the rails. It isn't the fifteen year old chav who has his music blaring out of his phone, yelling to his mate on the other end of the bus about how he couldn't get it up to bang Shaniqua. And no, it isn't even the fact that they keep hiking up the prices for the bus.

My only problem with public transport, is that it takes longer for the bus to get from one side of town to the other than it does for me to walk the distance, and I get to pay two pound for the pleasure. Whoo pah.

ON TOPIC: Discussed umbrella battle tactics with an old dude. Strangely, without those sage words he told me, I would of lost a few more fights than I have. Hoo yeah crazy umbrella warrior.

I live in Florida. What's the problem?

I believe you have outlined it right there... Heh.

Agreed.

Where in Florida, Cg?

I live in Florida. What's the problem?

I believe you have outlined it right there... Heh.

Agreed.

Where in Florida, Cg?

I'm in Ft. Lauderdale.

Oh nice. Tampa area for me.

Our bus service... No, in fact, all of our public transport services are completely useless. You pretty much can't go anywhere by train unless you live in Dublin, flights from Ireland have pretty minimal destination variation and the bus service is both expensive and utterly useless. A bus pass for a month for a student is about €75, and for that you get a terrible service with frequently cancelled route times for no reason and the ones that do run are sporadic and slow. Which is why I have a bike, which costs me €10 in petrol every 200km. So I'd usually spend €20 a month maximum. Our transport is actually painfully embarrassing.

Jesus! I thought £35 a month bus pass was bad!

A full adult one is €85 a month! This nation is a rip-off. I shan't even go into train prices. x 2

That's seriously insane, then again, a single bus fare in London is £2, but it's only £1 if you have an Oyster, just outside London it's £3 for return bus fares. London transport isn't as expensive as I thought

London transport is awesome. I want tubes over here. I don't really have anything to compare it to but the public transport system here is quite awesome I'd say. Sure, people whine when the bus is late or whatever but I mean... The bus I take to the city center (about 10 min ride) goes every 7 mins. After 6 pm, every 15 mins.

People always complain about the TFL! "merrrrr the tube only runs till half 12"

FOR FUCK'S SAKE! IT'S A TUBE THAT TRANSPORTS YOU TO ANOTHER PART OF LONDON UNDER THE CITY.

Old alcoholic cruiser in a Hawaiian shirt with his cask of cheap wine get's on the train, "I'll go sit next to J.C." he mutters to himself. Comes and sits next to me. Starts telling me a story about when he was really drunk and lost out in rural areas, came across a big ditch, made by a comet. Stumbling through he found a different looking rock, seems significant, keeps it. Finally finds his way to the pub, the Ettamogah pub. Where he reckons they stole this rock off him, cause it held special powers. Lot's of (Australian) indigenous story's of special rocks and locations. Like, Wilpena pound, natural quartz ampitheatre.

So I know this isn't conversation on public transportation, but it's... it's worth mentioning... because it's really fucked up. And it happened on a train.


When I went to school in San Francisco, I commuted via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit - it's a train thing), and the cars were relatively empty since it wasn't during commuter hours. I'm sitting in this empty car, and out of all the seats on the train this random older dude sits next to me. It was kinda weird. Then he brings his legs up to his chest, and puts his coat over his legs - to form a little tent thing over his legs... if that makes any sense.

Part of his coat kind of fell on my leg, and I didn't really realize it until later. But this one area of my thigh was noticeably warm the whole ride Then I felt something move from under the coat that was on my thigh. Something moved and then slid off. I turned and I glared at this dude, and right away he got up and ran off the train at the next stop. I yelled "what the fuck" at him, but he was already gone. Then I realized that for a half an hour, his hand was on my thigh

*sigh*

Oh lordy!

Oh man all these bus events keep flooding back thanks to this thread, like the time an old man in the middle of the summer sat opposite me and my friend at the back wearing very high white shorts, and he unnoticably slipped a bollock...or on a nightbus back from Brixton Academy a one-legged guy in a wheelchair just started randomly pissing everywhere...or when this fat woman spent 20 minutes trying to get one of those motorised carts on, finally succeeded, and every 10 seconds kept yelling at me "DOES THIS BUS GO TO EEEAST CROYDON?" with me saying "no, west Croydon", and her saying "TELL THE DRIVER WHEN WE GET TO EAST CROYDON I HAVE TO GET OFF", till I eventually yelled "I'M NOT GOING TO FUCKING CROYDON LADY."

Oh and before I forget, a few months ago actually....this guy got on the bus, looked a bit grizzly, had stubble, bright red flaky skin, bloodshot eyes, shoulder length greasy hair and black jacket...got on...sat down...after a few minutes he stuck his finger in his mouth, brought it out COVERED IN BLOOD....and started playing with it. I actually started to panic incase he touched me, I don't like touching gross stuff and I don't like zombies...he looked and staggered like a zombie.