Amazingly beautiful.....
I've been wanting to blog about this for months but I just never had the time.
As everyone pobably knows(or you don't because you don't care, I understand), I take the bus every morning to school. From my home, I usually take the 29, which is a "Bendy Bus" just like pictured above. A lot of people love it because you can get in from any of the three doors, and you don't have to tap your Oyster Card if the driver didn't see you. So as long as the inpectors don't come and ask for your Oyster or pass, you can ride for free. I personally hate it. I just think it's the worst invention in the world!! But that's not the point of this post.
Anyways, because I live in the London suburban area, every morning, a lot of school kids take thebus to school. And these kids usually have relly, really bad behaviour. As a result, the divers of the 29 usually have attitude issues. When you arrive at a stop, and because this is a bendy bus, and in the morning the bus is so full, it's very difficult to get to the doors, they might close before you can get off. Usually, when this happens, the person who failed to get off will press the bell repeatedly, to remind the driver that there are people inside the bus who still need to get off. And because the driver usually needs a lot of therapy, he will ignore this. So the person will start screaming, normally words that you don't say i front of your mother, until the next stop, where the person will finally get off while muttering these words. Trust me. It's never a pleasant sight to see first thing in the morning.
But one morning, soething amazing happened...
One woman tried to get off the bus when the doors closed in front of her. Instead of the usual press-the-bell-ten-thousand-times-and-curse-to-the-driver method, she actally screamed, rather politey "Excuse me, driver!! I need to get off!!" And the most amazing thing happened: The driver opened the doors for her. I swear everyone in the bus was smiling to themselves when they saw this. It was the most beautiful thing we'd ever seen!!!
I had a great day that day.
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