The lead foot has a downside
I was on the 160 coming home from work today, and since it was one of the older buses, the driver decided to see if the old clunker handled well at high speeds. I can really see no other reason why he would go along at 70 kph, passing cars. I didn’t mind, it just meant I would get home faster.
Problem is that when I got on the bus, I had to sit in the middle seat at the back. Normally, this wouldn’t be too much of an issue, but you see, buses don’t have seatbelts. When you’re sitting on any other seat on the bus, you have at least something to hold onto. Not me. To avoid T-boning a car running a red light, the driver had to go from 70 to 0 in, oh…really goddamn quickly. I was essentially launched out of my seat, with only my feet somehow moving fast enough to prevent me from headbutting a standing passenger in the crotch. That would’ve been slightly awkward to say the least.
Physics really sucks sometimes.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Is it bad that I couldn’t stop laughing at the visual of you headbutting a stranger in the crotch?
July 6th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Not nearly as bad as reading your comment after recovering from almost-unstoppable laughter!
July 7th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Kinda reminds me of a psycho bus driver driving the 145 last week. He basically sped through the rotunda and cut off a car just at the bus stop there, taking up two lanes and opening the doors.
If I were the driver, I would have been pissed.
Of course, he then proceeded to barrel down Gaglardi to the Production Way/University Skytrain Station. I thought there was a chance the bus would crash sometime, but thankfully it didn’t.