miws
WSeaFam2, just today, while I was riding the 128 from Morgan Junction to the Admiral District, some moron whipped a quick left in front of us, causing our driver to have to slam on the brakes a bit. Not too hard, but enough to snap passengers out of daydreaming.
The driver lamented out loud, with a sigh, how she was tired of that happening. I have to give her credit, she didn’t even give the horn a toot. I would have been tempted to lay on it.
And oh yeah. The car drivers just hate it when a bus pulls out ahead of them. Sure, once in a great while the bus driver will pull away from the curb, and there will be an immediate blast of the car horn indicating the bus driver cut off the car driver (who was probably speeding ;-) ) at the last second. But mostly, it’s some self involved jerk, that is offended that a bus pulled out ahead of them from 1/4 of a block away, because, they don’t want to get behind a slow, stinky bus.
Which they aren’t so much anymore. With the improvements that have been made over the last decade or so, there’s no noticeable diesel smell (at least that I can tell) and they aren’t quite as slow as the buses from many years ago.
Mike