So the bus I take to pick up my kids at the day care center is a bus that is paid for by companies to haul their workers from public transport to the office. The bus starts from the metro at one end and goes to the RER at the other end, between the two is a distance of 2 kilometers with passages through mainly industrial zones.
I try to be on best behavior with the busdrivers since they literally go around in a small circles which makes them kind of grumpy. Or so I thought when sometimes they would drive right by without picking up passengers. And then I realized that maybe they don't know they have passengers.
Why? Firstly since the bus runs mostly in the mornings and evenings other buses use the bus stop for parking so usually view of the bus stop is blocked by another giant bus.
Secondly the bustop is almost always full of people only these people are not waiting for the bus. They are just a group of older maghreban gentlemen sitting around taking advantage of the free seats and chatting. Seriously I've taken the bus in the morning and in the evenings it's always the same group.
The other day I got to the bus stop and to my surprise the older gentlemen were not there. This was because an homeless guy had moved in.
So from the busdriver's perspective he is on a route that goes in small circles and sometimes he can't see the bustop because it's being blocked by a giant bus or if he can see the bustop it's either filled with people who don't want to take the bus or if it's empty it's because the people who want to take the bus are hiding counter wind to avoid the bad smell coming from the homeless guy and appear at the last minute frantically waving their arms as if for rescue.
Not the best bus route I admit but maybe not so dull.
I try to be on best behavior with the busdrivers since they literally go around in a small circles which makes them kind of grumpy. Or so I thought when sometimes they would drive right by without picking up passengers. And then I realized that maybe they don't know they have passengers.
Why? Firstly since the bus runs mostly in the mornings and evenings other buses use the bus stop for parking so usually view of the bus stop is blocked by another giant bus.
Secondly the bustop is almost always full of people only these people are not waiting for the bus. They are just a group of older maghreban gentlemen sitting around taking advantage of the free seats and chatting. Seriously I've taken the bus in the morning and in the evenings it's always the same group.
The other day I got to the bus stop and to my surprise the older gentlemen were not there. This was because an homeless guy had moved in.
So from the busdriver's perspective he is on a route that goes in small circles and sometimes he can't see the bustop because it's being blocked by a giant bus or if he can see the bustop it's either filled with people who don't want to take the bus or if it's empty it's because the people who want to take the bus are hiding counter wind to avoid the bad smell coming from the homeless guy and appear at the last minute frantically waving their arms as if for rescue.
Not the best bus route I admit but maybe not so dull.
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