"Paul Corfield" wrote in message There are plenty
of skilled and polite bus drivers in London.

I've been using the buses daily since March last year. I had to give up
driving because a stroke left me 70% blind..

You are quite right. A driver on the 140 said thank you to me about six
months' ago.

I nearly died from the shock!

Scum of the earth, generally.

Mick.