I hate 193 Duty! I hate the type of passenger it gets! I hate driving in a small circle in town! I hate doing this for hours on end!

The first thing to annoy me was a lady who came running up to the bus when I was halted at one of the car park bus stops, very sarcastically she said “Thanks for not stopping”. Yes, I’d seen her between bus stops in the car prk but to me someone walking to buy a ticket from a machine looks just like some someone walking to a bus stop. Someone going back to their car is indinstinguisable from someone who has just left their car. How do they expect me to know what they’re doing? I told this to the lady and said that if she’d raised her hand I would have stopped even if she wasn’t at a stop. At least the lady had the good grace to see my point once I’d explained it to her.

I had hijackings galore – one member of the group gets on the bus and stands on the platform saying that someone else is just going to buy a ticket. They think that the bus can’t drive off now that they’ve said that and that they’re standing on it. Oh yes it can :-)

And then there were the paparazzi – I think I know how Princess Diana must have felt! They were snapping me at the Railway Station, The Broadway, City Road traffic lights sometimes from one side of the road sometimes another. I will try not to exaggerate but I honestly think the two of them must have photographed me 20 times between them. I was driving a perfectly ordinary Dennis Enviro 300 about one year old. That’s not a rare bus, nor a new one on the road. Why such interest? Or was it really me and not the bus they wanted to photograph? ;-)