
I am a girl who hates public transport but am forced to use it. This is the reason why. Well when I turned 16, my dad had this ‘rule’ that if my elder sister doesn’t get her licence, I don’t get mine too. It irritates me to the max cause she does not even have the slightest interest in getting one. So you see, I am basically STUCK! How can I ever persuade my dad to consider me getting my licence soon? Hmm I have no idea.
Well the story me hating public transport is this. Every day when my classes for the day ends, I catch a bus home. See, I catch the 135 bus back home and the reason I have a huge problem with 135 is cause it takes freaking 30 minutes for the next one to arrive. And not to forget, some buses come either too early or too late. Super annoying!
So while waiting for the bus, I would talk to my sister or just listen to my music. When the bus comes, I would pray and hope it is not full. Bloody hell it’s always FULL. A little part of me always dies whenever I see like fifty or so passengers on the bus all squashed together. That sounds hells disgusting but I have a problem with this cause. Its cause I don’t want my body touching peoples back nor would I want to smell their body odour. But that’s what everyone deals with when it comes to SUMMER! Validating the ticket is the fun part. I always feel the piercing stares from the passengers sitting at the back whenever I come in or even other passengers come in as well.
When there is an Indian passenger on-board, the whole story goes gaga. When I come in, they give the look of ‘Oh My God, I thought I was the ONLY Indian in this whole Adelaide. It can’t be. Another Indian on the same bus as me! NO NO NO!’. It pisses me off so much that I feel like smashing their face. It’s not that I don’t I wanna sound racist here. But it’s the effing fact.
So, back to my story. As I validated my ticket, I realise that all seats were taken. So I decided to just stand opposite the validating machine. After the bus driver stopped at a few stops and passengers unloading, I could not be bothered carrying my heavy bag to the back and sitting down. So I decided to stand there and change the music track that I was listening to. As I did, this two old man, maybe in their late 60’s, came in. As they validated their ticket, I moved my feet in to give them more way to their seat. As one of the old man pass by, he accidently tripped on my shoe by A CENTIMETER. So I quickly caught him before he could get out of balance. As I felt really bad, I said, “im sorry sir”. Then this smart old man started going off at me. “OH MY! There is so many seats at the back, why do you stand here? MOVE DOWN!” Not to forget, he was shouting at the top of his lungs and everyone was looking at me. I was like “What the F dude, I said I am sorry rite”( the sware part I whispered) And he just went to his seat still complaining. I just gave him the WTF look and the F OFF look and shoved in my earplugs and blasted my songs till his shouting turned to whispers. I could not believe what just happen. An old man going off at me for an extra mini trip and me going off at this old man. I was damn pissed off alrite. If anyone would have talked to me then, I would have bitch slapped them. Just because I am dark skinned, doesn’t mean I am dumb alrite. He was going off at me as if I didn’t understand English or like I just came out from a jungle or something. Wow that just spoilt my whole mood for the day.
There are more stories to why I hate public transport, but so far, this is one of the main reasons I hate it. I am sure you can somehow relate to what I said above. So comment below!