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10 Bus Travel Annoyances
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BTAs - to me, that is!
1. Men who stand so close to you along the aisle and there you have his crotch so close right next to your face, and sometimes, the smell is just so... ~ ~ *yewh* (for goodness sake, if you are guilty of this act, please do everyone a favour and give yourself a good wash down there first!)
2. Mobile phone users who think that everyone needs to know about the current conversation. (Eh, Ah Lim, I don't need to know what you did with your Xiao-yu last night leh. Next time, please try to boast to your friends about your "sexcapadesescapades when you are not in the bus lah!)
3. People whose bags are so precious that they have to 'chop' a place on the seat.
Worst if they go marketing and have the wet plastic bags placed on the seats AND they offer the seat to you... :| (excuse me har, how to sit there with all the fish blood, unknown liquids, etc. on the seat?)
4. People who have long legs. So long that they simply can not fit into the space between this chair and the next. They have to resort to supporting their legs on the hinds of the chairs in front - usually accompanied with constant rythmic shaking.
Oh, and ladies, you must have had the bad experience of having your hair caught between their knees and the back of the chairs... ouch!
5. People who hang their umbrellas on the back of the chairs - knocking into your head each time they hang it or take it off.
6. Ladies who simply refuse to open their handbads/totes/slingbags/etc. to locate their EZ-Link cards when there is a problem reading the card - even when there is a long queue of people waiting behind to get on the bus.
Instead, they choose to perform the ever-so-familiar ezlink-dance.
EZLink Dance Steps
Step 1: Raise your arm a bit (handbag around elbow).
Step 2: Bring down your arm just a bit.
Step 3: Repeat Steps 1 and 2 till satisfied. (Sometimes, I see people improvise these steps to include banging their handbags/barang barangs on the card readers.)
7. People with Rotiboy/Baker's Boy/whatever-you-can-name-them Boy coffee buns.
Yes, I am a coffee lover. But the strong artificial coffee smell in an enclosed place is definitely not pleasant! Makes me giddy most times! Durians are much better by comparison!
8. Extra careful bus captains (I will have you know they are bus captains ok!? Not bus drivers hor!) who would travel at break-neckpatience speed that even the bengish motorized bikes can overtake!
Also not forgetting waiting at the zebra crossings for people who have just started crossing the traffic junction at the other side of the road! YES! This happened on route 163 in Seng Kang before! Incredible! And I was one of the blessed few who could witness this show of ultimate kindness.
9. The automatic stage update function that prevents people from tapping their EZ-Link cards before the bus nears the stop.
Come on! The gahmen also trust us liao, IRs(read CASINO) approved also, good test of Singaporeans' strength right?
10. People who simply refuse to budge when there is OBVIOUSLY a lot of space at the back of the bus and they are right in the middle near the exit doors, blocking the aisle. These people block the way and others have no way of boarding the bus at all!
Some of them even ignore the bus captains when they tell them to move to the back!
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moe at 5/19/2005 10:53:00 AM
