{"id":1130,"date":"2010-12-15T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2010-12-15T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T18:42:30","slug":"a-cheery-first-bus-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"A cheery First Bus driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did my own version of P+R into Southampton &#8211; drive to Shirley Road, park in a side street and then take any passing bus (they come every couple of minutes) into town.  Bluestar and First buses both cover this route but it was a First bus which rather appropriately came first today.  As I boarded I had to smile.  This wasn&#8217;t a driver wearing a Santa hat and and looking rather silly in it alongside a uniform jacket, shirt and company tie.  This was a real Santa!  I hate to say this but my general experience of First drivers in Southampton is not that they are rude or nasty, just that they&#8217;re uncommunicative and rather robotic &#8211; say the price, print the ticket and leave it at that.  No &#8216;please&#8217; and &#8216;thanks&#8217; etc.  I always say &#8216;Thanks&#8217;, &#8216;Cheers&#8217; whatever when I leave any bus but it&#8217;s rare to get any reply from a Southampton First driver.  So it was a real treat to see a driver who was actually going out of his way to be cheery.  I asked if I could take a photo of him and put it on this blog, he agreed and I hope that he gets to see it.  Well done that man!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/santadriver.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/santadriver.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did my own version of P+R into Southampton &#8211; drive to Shirley Road, park in a side street and then take any passing bus (they come every couple of minutes) into town. Bluestar and First buses both cover this route but it was a First bus which rather appropriately came first today. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}