Has anyone had any interesting bus ride experiences?

Now Ken, Being that you are going to ride a bus tomorrow I don't know that I want to tell you my experience on the bus..They have not always been pleasant..Some had been super..others had been scary.. Besides all that I am super sentives to fragrances..so when you get a bus full of smells..things can get intense;)+ I hope your bus ride is pleasant..Gas is too high isnt it!!!

well it mostly depends in what kind of enviroment you live in...but mostly...i don't think anything bad will hapen haha...that reminds me...im the band and going back to school after a parade is done (this is like around 8:30pm) so it's pretty dark and this one guy really wanted to pee and he was all the way back in the bus so what he did....was pretty nasty....he took a water bottle and pee'd in it...he did 2 bottles of water first one he missed badly...very messy it was pretty nasty...i didn't see him do it...but i saw the results of it...(the 2 bottles and the mess he made in the back

Where I live, we have no public transportation. I have to use my truck, and it does 11 miles to the gallone at $3.06 a gallon for regular. I wish we did have a bus with the way gas is going up.

Oh man! I will never take a bus again! ha ha ha It was horrible! It smelled. It was a rough ride. And people just are not very respectable. People stare and make me feel very uncomfortable. Because someone saw me with a cell phone, she wanted to use it to call and make sure she was getting picked up. And then getting to another place to switch buses was horrible!!! The next bus station was not open yet and I was followed by some guy that looked like the Uni-bomber and I was to be his next victim! But thankfully, some other guy came along and saw the situation and sat next to me on the ground. In exchange, I had to give him smokes and turn him down gently on refusing to give my phone number. Eek! I will never ride a bus again. It was very very scary. But hey! I hope your experience is better! :) Tell us how it goes. I would love to hear a good experience. :D

I haven't had too many interesting happenings on the bus, but I have met or seen many interesting people. Like this one guy who got on the bus and told the bus driver that he's a disabled veteran and he'd better wait 'til he sits down to take off or he's gonna sue him. He said it rather loudly, too. There's also a girl who will sit there covering her nose with her clothes because she can't stand the smell and will even get herself to gag. Ohh... what other sorts of interesting people have I seen? I can't remember anyone else at the moment. I don't particularly enjoy taking the bus, but it gets me to where I need to go. Even if it does take me 2-3 times longer than it normally would if I drove myself. It does save me a lot of money, too.

I had to take a bus one summer because my car broke down. I was going to work and this older lady sat next to me, which was weird in the first place since the bus was near empty and had plenty of seating. There was road construction going on since it was summer, so the road was bumpy. Everytime we hit a bump, the woman said "meow". I had a real hard time not laughing because I didn't want to make fun of her!

I know I responded to this already, but I had something happen to me yesterday that I just HAVE to share. I was taking the bus to go shopping and along the way, the bus driver stops at one of the stops. No big deal, right? Except that nobody requested the stop and nobody was waiting there, either. He gets out of the bus, walks into the 7-11 that was nearby, buys himself a Gatorade and walks back to the bus and goes on his merry way. My question is, why couldn't he buy himself that Gatorade when he was on his layover by the Albertson's?

As much as many will give horror stories and some are quite true and yucky to think about, most of the time it's not a really bad experience, at least here in Erie. I used to take the bus all the time, especially in the winter, when I was married and we lived directly on the bus route. I could literally walk out my door, across the street and be picked up by the bus. The few minutes drive to the door of my work was stress free for me, especially in the winter since I didn't have to go out and shovel the drive or start the car up early and fight the ice, etc. Although one winter we had Mario Andretti for a bus driver. He was flying, the streets were ice and he literally went THROUGH a public park instead of around like he was supposed to be doing! Every single passenger got up and got out of the bus at the next stop, thinking we'd rather be late for the job then early for the grave!!!! Needless to say we all had the same idea when we got to work too. Many called to report the incident and luckily there was a crossing guard that called too. It was so scary! But that's the only real horror story I have, other then a few smelly people that I preferred not to sit near or downwind of! LOL

No none really,, but i only ride a bus if im travelling far distances..

A crazy old guy once threatened me with a knife, it was a plastic knife though...

I do take the bus once in while, especially when my husband can't drive me to a place I need to be. It wasn't that bad though since most of the bus driver will be very friendly explaining things to you when you don't understand which bus to take or which route...except when it comes to waiting for passangers. I just have to run my breath out when I'm 2 minutes late as the bus won't wait for me and wait another 15-30 hours for the next one....phew. But did i save a lot of money on gas by taking the bus ??? My asnwer will be "NO". Considering the bus ticket that I have to pay everytime I get on the bus...I can just save them for gas and drive relax in my own car....leave whenever I want. Here, it wasn't that much different.

i think its been good or bad is depend what experienced that we've got.actually i dont like riding by bus.i like riding motorcycle or car.and i think it will save a lot of money on gas by taking a motorcycle or car.but its depend on where do you want to go.

I love riding the bus... first I save soo much... second you meet interesting people... but always keep an eye on your personal items, make sure you know what buses to get on or off at... and if you do not have good balance then try to make sure you have a seat at all time

I had a very frustrated and somehow funny bus ride once with some friends. It was a Sunday, and we all arranged a bus trip to an amusement park that is around 2 hours away from the place we live. Before we left, the woman resposible for the trip and the park tickets collected the receipts we had. She stayed there, and we left with a guide (there were also many children/teenagers with us). We had a stop in the middle of the way to use the restroom and have a coffee or something, and it took around 20 minutes. When we all got back to the bus, we all noticed it was going very slowly. The driver had to stop on the road, because we had a flat tire. He checked, and noticed there was NO spare tire on the bus, and called for some help. We stayed there, on the road, for around 2 hours until the help arrived. Then, we all talked and got to an agreement that we wouldn't like to go to the park anymore, as we had spent too much time there waiting, and the park would be already opened for hours at the time we got there. So, we all went back home. The woman responsible for our ride was in our city waiting for us to come to deal what we'd want to do. If we wanted our money back, or if we'd like to arrange another tour. Most of us opted for the money back, but she said she didn't have the money at the moment, and asked if we could wait until the next day, when she would be able to pay everyone. We said it was ok, but that we wanted back the receipt she's taken from us signed by her to have some kind of prove she owed us. For some reason, she never gave those receipts back, and we had to call the police to solve the issue. She ended up saying she'd only give the money to people who wouldn't want the receipt back. My boyfriend and I ended up getting our money at the same day, but the rest of the group sued her, and after about 6 or 8 months, they got an amount around 6 or 7 times what they paid. It was quite a mess, but man, I had fun on that day! All that police stuff was somehow exciting, and we all laughed a lot at the situation. Quite a story, huh? :)

Me and one of my friends used to goto the institute together at times we used to take the bus when our rikshaw puller was absent. Most of the times I used to get the seat and my friend was not lucky in that matter. One such day I decided that I will offer the seat her the moment I looked towards her to offer the seat one person came and occupied the seat so that day we both went standing in bus. So that day I understood that your luck if you want to give to someone else leaves you as well so we just laughed and decided not to offer the seat to another.

Yeah once i had a intercity bus ride..due to unavailability of other means of transport...that was very good experience not because i loved the bus ride extremely......instead i enjoyed it because incidentally i met the most beautiful girl in my life on that bus ever...the conversation was great and i made the most out of every second on board...

Buses are pretty much a part of normal Singaporean's life. A bus is just a bus here.. no "big deal" really for us...

Well i don't know if we can save a money by taking a bus rather than riding our own car coz i don't have a private car. But i think, yeah you can save more money if you will take a bus, specially if you're having a long long trip by bus. But if you have a private car, you have your privacy and you can move more freely, what you think?

I am in the UK and I travel everywhere by bus or train. Generally speaking its been all good. Apart from the delays, the standing because of overcrowding etc! I couldn't survive without our local service and the drivers are mostly friendly and do the best they can. I hope your trip went well!

When I was little after my dad passed away my mother and I used to travel by bus back and forth to visit relatives. We always enjoyed it. The only problem we ever had was I got car (bus) sick one time. The driver of the bus was a very nice person. He pulled over at the nearest store and got me a coke which helped me to feel better. Other than that we never had any problems riding a bus and rode on off and on for five years until my mother remarried, after which my stepfather was able to take us visiting. Hope this will help, although I know it isn't quite the same as riding a bus to go to work.