What's Your Least Favourite Type of Bus Passenger

[Violet Octopus]

The Person Who Doesn't Move Up To The Back Of The Bus.

You plan your day badly, and end up having to catch a bus during rush hour. So all bus seats are taken, and many more people are standing. Inevitably there is someone who stands in the middle of the bus, oblivious to the fact that the people in front need more room, and there's plenty more space to be made if he'd just step back. So I end up stuck at the very front at the place where people aren't actually meant to stand, where there's nothing to hold onto.

There are worse types, but that's the one I encounter most frequently.

[Perenelle]

the guy that tries to make conversation with you when yet you're trying as many "conversation ending techniques" as possible

and this doesn't necessarily apply to just people on buses, pretty much people in general that dont get the hint that you dont want to talk to them.
I'm good with being friendly and maybe having a small conversation, but when saying obvious statements to get them to stop talking to you like "oh; well I better get back to reading my book" or "Nice talking to you", or maybe even turning your entire body to gaze out the window, they still dont realize that you're not interested in talking; those people annoy me to the extent where I'm tempted to open the window and throw them out of the moving bus.

[gamerkid]

I don't go on the bus much but when I do I really hate The pair of guys you can hear saying insulting stuff about you just a few inchs away, but that you can't tell to shut up because you don't have any real evidence.

[Zanaril]

Originally Posted by drakeblood4

The "I'm having an ordinary volume conversation unitl I say something about SEX!. Cause my voice immediately gets ten times louder whenever I think of works like PENIS!. Or brag about that crazy DOGGIE STYLE! I had back before I had these sporadically loud conversations about VAGINAS." Type really pisses me off.

It's worse when it's a bus full of high school students.

For some reason, it's the lower years that do this the most. I'm sure we never acted like that...

And then there's the people who stand in the doorway smoking, so to get on the bus you have to push past them (carrying your awkwardly large art folder and heavy schoolbag) and get an unwanted whiff of their tobaco-stinking BO.

[Don Julio Anejo]

My most annoying bus passenger? The honger. Why? Well, if you don't like it (I certainly don't), you can at least understand why "gangsters" and "wiggers" act like jackasses on the bus (or well, in general). They're trying to look tough and rebellious and all that, which pours out to rebelling by playing bad music on cell phones and talking loudly about SEX and BOOZE.

But now imagine a fairly harmless looking Asian guy. Looks like... well, haven't figured out yet what they're going for... either an anime character or a parrot. Probably really smart. Probably also has really rich parents. Is also quite cultured, which you can't say about wiggers.

Now imagine him acting almost exactly the same way as the wigger while on a bus. Hanging out in groups of at least 3-4. Yelling in Cantonese to the point where my $150 noise cancellation DJ headphones aren't helping. Playing really bad J-Pop with really bad quality (read: lots of cracking) on their cell phones. Calling each other just to hear bad J-Pop ringtones. Talking along the lines of: *Chinese word* *English word* *la*. Literally add "la" after every second word...

And they just wouldn't shut up. Never, ever, ever.

The worst part - I can understand 90% of what they're saying despite knowing all of three words in Cantonese and despite them trying to talk almost exclusively in Cantonese.

Also, people who tell me to move my bag from the seat next to me when I'm going to class on a virtually empty bus at 7:30 AM because they want to sit there.

PS: *shudders*.. I had an old Italian guy as a boss for something like 5 months..

[Dracomorph]

Originally Posted by Silverraptor

stuff

He's a crazy person who read Scott Adams' free novel. It's not even that good a novel.

That's all kinds of sad.

[Silverraptor]

Originally Posted by Dracomorph

He's a crazy person who read Scott Adams' free novel. It's not even that good a novel.

That's all kinds of sad.

Hence why I called him a religious nut.

[Katana_Geldar]

Originally Posted by Don Julio Anejo

My most annoying bus passenger? The honger. Why? Well, if you don't like it (I certainly don't), you can at least understand why "gangsters" and "wiggers" act like jackasses on the bus (or well, in general). They're trying to look tough and rebellious and all that, which pours out to rebelling by playing bad music on cell phones and talking loudly about SEX and BOOZE.

But now imagine a fairly harmless looking Asian guy. Looks like... well, haven't figured out yet what they're going for... either an anime character or a parrot. Probably really smart. Probably also has really rich parents. Is also quite cultured, which you can't say about wiggers.

Now imagine him acting almost exactly the same way as the wigger while on a bus. Hanging out in groups of at least 3-4. Yelling in Cantonese to the point where my $150 noise cancellation DJ headphones aren't helping. Playing really bad J-Pop with really bad quality (read: lots of cracking) on their cell phones. Calling each other just to hear bad J-Pop ringtones. Talking along the lines of: *Chinese word* *English word* *la*. Literally add "la" after every second word...

And they just wouldn't shut up. Never, ever, ever.

The worst part - I can understand 90% of what they're saying despite knowing all of three words in Cantonese and despite them trying to talk almost exclusively in Cantonese.

Also, people who tell me to move my bag from the seat next to me when I'm going to class on a virtually empty bus at 7:30 AM because they want to sit there.

PS: *shudders*.. I had an old Italian guy as a boss for something like 5 months..

He's on the bus and train, his phone calls are a pain, he's Clive the slightly too loud commuter!

[AtomicKitKat]

The "foot on the seat" passenger. Absolutely disgusting. I once had the displeasure of encountering 2 such teenagers putting their slipper-clad feet up on the seats. It's one thing to raise your knees against the back of the seat in front of you. It's quite another to be lounging on the long seats(those facing sideways) with your feet up on where someone else will be sitting. They combined this with "gratuitous profanities". Truly a double-threat.

Another time, I encountered a man in his 40s who put his socked feet up on the headrest of the seat in front of him.

Twice now, I've also had the displeasure of riding in a bus with a mentally disturbed passenger. These are the types who just break out into weird verses of songs(that I've never heard of), or suddenly start blurting to some invisible person beside them. Why they're allowed to be out and about unmedicated is beyond me.

[Thes Hunter]

Originally Posted by Perenelle

the guy that tries to make conversation with you when yet you're trying as many "conversation ending techniques" as possible

and this doesn't necessarily apply to just people on buses, pretty much people in general that dont get the hint that you dont want to talk to them.
I'm good with being friendly and maybe having a small conversation, but when saying obvious statements to get them to stop talking to you like "oh; well I better get back to reading my book" or "Nice talking to you", or maybe even turning your entire body to gaze out the window, they still dont realize that you're not interested in talking; those people annoy me to the extent where I'm tempted to open the window and throw them out of the moving bus.

Funny, I was going to say the same thing... but since most of the people who do this to me are older ugly (and possibily married) men, I was going to classify them as "Men who continue to hit on me when I am quite clear I am not interested, and would like to not make conversation."


However, I have also run into chatty women....

[Katana_Geldar]

One thing I hate to see on buses (and anywhere else) is the parent who over disciplines their kids. Sometimes kids are just curious and it is hard to make them sit still at times, I know as I was one of those kids so on public transport my dad always tried to distract us so we wouldn't disturb other people (although one afternoon we entertained the bus with songs ).

These parents clearly think their kids are a distraction, and the child is just starving for attention while being ignored by their mother who is usually talking to a friend, on the phone or her ipod. Then the kid, bored out of his mind as kids often are...decides to go for a walk...

I'm a teacher, I know how to deal with these sort of kids and they're usually lovely if they you know are interested in them and listen. And this is why it upsets me to see them get screamed at and get backhanded. Kids are just being kids and aren't born with the inherrant ability to behave in public, people should realise that.

[SurlySeraph]

...you know, I'd always thought your avatar had a very exasperated-teacher-like appearance. That explains that, then.

Generally I've found parents more annoying than kids. It's kind of cute to hear a kid ask lots of questions. Hearing a parent, unprompted, explain to their three-year-old what every single object they can see is and does is rather less cute.

Though the kids who are annoying are really damn annoying. I still remember that one who attempted to count to a billion, and over the course of that very long ride did so successfully, at least by his own understading (he counted one through 99 then 100, then to two hundred, then counted the next hundred and said it was 1,000, then 10,000, then 100,000, then 1 million, then finally got off shortly afterwards after spending several minutes telling his mom he had counted to a million). Nothing like listening to an annoying-voiced kid misunderstand math and be unable to aid his understanding out of the certainty that his angry-looking cell-phone-wielding mother would flip out at you for talking to her precious child. This was at least 6 years ago, and I can still feel his triumphant whines of "A hundred thousand niiinety niiiiine - A MIIILLIIION!" burning a hole in my sanity.

[Dispozition]

School Girls. Often giggling ones at that. They're loud, and not just normally loud, they're ear-peircingly loud. I'm a drummer, I can cope with loud noises...These, I cannot.

What's worse is the One Stop Wonder. While I admit, I am sometimes this person, I never do it on a full tram! Seriously, would walking 200 metres actually kill you? No? THEN DO IT!

[Katana_Geldar]

GMing is actually rather similar to teaching, in that you need everyone's attention, are expected to pick up after people, have to respond to the people in the room and act accordingly and be extremely on the ball.

[Admiral Walrus]

Mr. or Mrs. "Be Quiet Child"

Mr. or Mrs. "Young Man You Are a Bad Person"

Mr. or Mrs. "OHMYGODBABBY"

Mr. or Mrs. "Dirty Looks to the Dirt Looking"

All of these have happened to me or someone next to me.

I often get the "Dirty Looks" type if I talk to myself (often), draw people (often), or write about the people around me (often).

Also, I get dirty looks if I try to focus my camera on ANYTHING inside the streetcar or if I make any of my views obvious.

[Berserk Monk]

The kind that is grossly overweight and doesn't know how to operate clothes.

[Don Julio Anejo]

Originally Posted by Berserk Monk

The kind that is grossly overweight and doesn't know how to operate clothes.

And seats. And isles for that matter. Seriously, don't stand at the entrance to the isle if the only way around you is to get in through another door.

[Perenelle]

Originally Posted by Thes Hunter

Funny, I was going to say the same thing... but since most of the people who do this to me are older ugly (and possibily married) men, I was going to classify them as "Men who continue to hit on me when I am quite clear I am not interested, and would like to not make conversation."


However, I have also run into chatty women....

I've found that the older men tend to talk to me and make conversation more than women. in fact; I dont think I've ever been randomly talked to by a chatty woman.
Some guys can just be downright creepy though...

[Cobra_Ikari]

Originally Posted by Perenelle

I've found that the older men tend to talk to me and make conversation more than women. in fact; I dont think I've ever been randomly talked to by a chatty woman.
Some guys can just be downright creepy though...

>.>

<.<

*puts on fake moustache, tries again?*

[Perenelle]

Originally Posted by Cobra_Ikari

>.>

<.<

*puts on fake moustache, tries again?*

you're not creepy! *huggles*

[Pocketa]

Originally Posted by Don Julio Anejo

My most annoying bus passenger? The honger. Why? Well, if you don't like it (I certainly don't), you can at least understand why "gangsters" and "wiggers" act like jackasses on the bus (or well, in general). They're trying to look tough and rebellious and all that, which pours out to rebelling by playing bad music on cell phones and talking loudly about SEX and BOOZE.

But now imagine a fairly harmless looking Asian guy. Looks like... well, haven't figured out yet what they're going for... either an anime character or a parrot. Probably really smart. Probably also has really rich parents. Is also quite cultured, which you can't say about wiggers.

Now imagine him acting almost exactly the same way as the wigger while on a bus. Hanging out in groups of at least 3-4. Yelling in Cantonese to the point where my $150 noise cancellation DJ headphones aren't helping. Playing really bad J-Pop with really bad quality (read: lots of cracking) on their cell phones. Calling each other just to hear bad J-Pop ringtones. Talking along the lines of: *Chinese word* *English word* *la*. Literally add "la" after every second word...

And they just wouldn't shut up. Never, ever, ever.

The worst part - I can understand 90% of what they're saying despite knowing all of three words in Cantonese and despite them trying to talk almost exclusively in Cantonese.

Also, people who tell me to move my bag from the seat next to me when I'm going to class on a virtually empty bus at 7:30 AM because they want to sit there.

PS: *shudders*.. I had an old Italian guy as a boss for something like 5 months..

Originally Posted by Dispozition

School Girls. Often giggling ones at that. They're loud, and not just normally loud, they're ear-peircingly loud. I'm a drummer, I can cope with loud noises...These, I cannot.

What's worse is the One Stop Wonder. While I admit, I am sometimes this person, I never do it on a full tram! Seriously, would walking 200 metres actually kill you? No? THEN DO IT!

I'm one of those people, so they're my favorite. It's great when I see those people on the bus and we have matching ringtones. It's the best.

I take the bus home with my friends. We're tired, we've had a long day, we always sit in certain seats. We are members of the popular clique. We have perfect hair and clothes, an acronym made of our initials, are key members of Homecoming/Prom/etc. committees, have great grades, etc. Some people compare me to the Libby (I hate TV Tropes, but it's a necessary annoyance?), do I sound like I care? Anyways, on the bus, the following things annoy me:

People that sit in our seats when they know that they're our seats.

No, not innocents that happen to sit in our seats. Losers that know where my friends and I sit and choose to sit there, hoping we'll converse with them.

Solution? We sit in the quad (our seats are in quads of 2 seats facing forward, 2 facing behind), one person stands in the aisle or squeezes with the 2 people sitting together, and talk about how great our lives our. I.e. parties, friends, fun.

People that try to talk to us on the bus.

I'm not interested in hearing about a stranger's day or what they're interested in. I have friends, and if I wanted more, I would have talked to them. They're probably smelly or a nobody, so why would I bother caring?

Solution? I ignore them while my friends glare and then tell them off.

People that ask to borrow my phone, for directions, etc.

Do I look like your mother? I'm nobody's babysitter. Learn to Google Map. It really annoys me when these people have an iPhone or something and still ask.

Solution? Pretending not to speak English. I can do it because I look really obviously Asian, and the two girls I take the bus with aren't white either. Stereotypes FTW in this case.


BTW, on the bus, we're purposefully giggly, pretend to get phonecalls, call each other while on the bus, and have a ton of fun, because we know it annoys everyone else.

[Anatharon]

Originally Posted by Pocketa

People that sit in our seats when they know that they're our seats.

...

Well, that's my daily dose of self-importance from someone on the internet.

Specifically, "your seats"? What makes you specialy deserving of some seats over other people?

[Pocketa]

Originally Posted by Anatharon

...

Well, that's my daily dose of self-importance from someone on the internet.

Specifically, "your seats"? What makes you specialy deserving of some seats over other people?

The fact we sit there every day. It's only when people sit there and know that it's our seat. i.e., a certain girl at our school keeps trying to get in with my crowd. We don't like her for legitimate reasons: she's mean to a lot of people, she plagiarizes her work from both the Internet and our friends, and she has physically and verbally assaulted us before. Now, because we're Homecoming, she wants to be friends with us, and so she keeps bothering us at school. At school, she can whine she's being excluded, so we have to act as if we're okay with her and not tell her off. On the bus, she'll try and sit with us, but because there's 3 of us, we usually all sit on the bus in the quad, and have our bags on one seat or invite someone else to sit there. She tries to beat us to the bus by getting on at an earlier stop because we have optional e.c. classes and she doesn't, so she has the opportunity, and tries to get us to sit with her. If we switch, she tries again, so we decided to just cut her off by ignoring her when she sits In Our Seats.

[Jamin]

Originally Posted by Pocketa

I'm one of those people, so they're my favorite. It's great when I see those people on the bus and we have matching ringtones. It's the best.

I take the bus home with my friends. We're tired, we've had a long day, we always sit in certain seats. We are members of the popular clique. We have perfect hair and clothes, an acronym made of our initials, are key members of Homecoming/Prom/etc. committees, have great grades, etc. Some people compare me to the Libby (I hate TV Tropes, but it's a necessary annoyance?), do I sound like I care? Anyways, on the bus, the following things annoy me:

People that sit in our seats when they know that they're our seats.

No, not innocents that happen to sit in our seats. Losers that know where my friends and I sit and choose to sit there, hoping we'll converse with them.

Solution? We sit in the quad (our seats are in quads of 2 seats facing forward, 2 facing behind), one person stands in the aisle or squeezes with the 2 people sitting together, and talk about how great our lives our. I.e. parties, friends, fun.

People that try to talk to us on the bus.

I'm not interested in hearing about a stranger's day or what they're interested in. I have friends, and if I wanted more, I would have talked to them. They're probably smelly or a nobody, so why would I bother caring?

Solution? I ignore them while my friends glare and then tell them off.

People that ask to borrow my phone, for directions, etc.

Do I look like your mother? I'm nobody's babysitter. Learn to Google Map. It really annoys me when these people have an iPhone or something and still ask.

Solution? Pretending not to speak English. I can do it because I look really obviously Asian, and the two girls I take the bus with aren't white either. Stereotypes FTW in this case.


BTW, on the bus, we're purposefully giggly, pretend to get phonecalls, call each other while on the bus, and have a ton of fun, because we know it annoys everyone else.

Some of that stuff is just being mean too people who are trying to be nice

[Pocketa]

I don't talk to strangers. So no, I'm not going to be nice to them. People get kidnapped helping strangers look for puppies, a far more important cause than getting directions. If they obviously have a phone, they can use it to call someone. If they need directions, they can ask a bus driver. I take the bus in a group because I live in a dangerous urban area. We're not nice to strangers, because nice people don't win. We're perfectly nice at school, hence why we've won Homecoming. You don't win Homecoming if everyone hates you. But I'm not going to get kidnapped just for being nice. A lot of crime like that happens around my area. I looked at the local sex offender map, and most of them live on my bus route, no kidding. So I'm not going to take that risk.

tl;dr my signature.

Unrelated: My friends and I do play music on the bus. But only on fieldtrips on private buses. We're totally different on school buses, which are way safer, duh. We have our music, our food, the works, because we're allowed to, and we make sure not to make a mess. The only passengers we're annoying are our peers, who are probably used to it (if a certain behavior annoys them) because the rest of the passengers are teens, and my friends and I do call each other just to hear our ringtones and dance in the halls, parapara (synchronized dance) style. Our school has few rules concerning behavior...

I don't hate anything on the buses except the kids that whine about going on the trip or bring everything they don't need. I.e. the kid that brings their history books even though we won't be having class, and they're not bringing it to study or anything. Then they whine about here they're going to put the stuff.

We recently had a boat trip, and it cost the school a ton of money because it was about $40/person. One girl chose to go, even though it was optional, and used up the scholarship funds (people had the option to pay if they could) for it, and then whined on the way, on the boat, and one the way back about how much she hated boats, the ocean, etc.

The people that whine and ask for food get annoying, especially when they get to the point of departure half and hour early, have $10 in the wallet, and refuse to trek a block to the CVS.

What do other people hate on fieldtrip buses that just consist of one's peers onboard?

[_Zoot_]

Any body and every body that is talking when i'm in a bad mood. Yes, I know thats not reasonable, but i'm still cross with them.

[Pocketa]

Zoot, you sound awesome, and I agree with that as well.

[Cobra_Ikari]

...

...am I the only one who thinks far too many people are irritated/annoyed/upset far too often by far too minor grievances?

[_Zoot_]

Gah, now that I re-read my post I see that it came out wrong, a better way of putting it would be to say that I don't like riding the bus when I'm in a bad mood because having other people around dons't help the situation. Don't hate me...

[Eldan]

Originally Posted by Cobra_Ikari

...

...am I the only one who thinks far too many people are irritated/annoyed/upset far too often by far too minor grievances?

Well... let's just say: I have to get up at six, and on the bus at half past six. I rarely get more than four hours or so of sleep during the week, because I go to bed at ten and then stay awake in the dark thinking to until 2. I'm grumpy, tired, have a headache and any and all sounds annoy me until about two hours later when I'm half-awake.
So, yes, it's probably minor, but it annoys me a lot.