In article , Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

I had a similar problem while waiting on the Strand the other day
trying to catch a bus to Waterloo. I missed the first one because I
wasn't able to fold up my bike in time, which is fair enough. The
second one I missed because there were two buses already at the stop
and so it stopped in the middle of the road quite a long distance from
the stop. It drove off before I had time to realise it was actually
stopping there, let alone walk over to where it was. The third one
managed to actually stop next to the bus stop and let passengers on.

Do you think the bus drivers do this deliberately, or do they genuinely
fail to appreciate the presence of waiting passengers?

I sometimes have problems at request stops with bubes - er, buses which
run really close together - waving my arm often just makes the first one
stop, so I'm essentially buggered if the second one happens to be the
one I want to get on...

Niklas
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one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the 6th century,
which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know
as Poland." - Unknown from Nov. 1998 issue of Infosystems Executive.