"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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Painting *everyone* within a category with the same brush is not a very
sensible thing to do.

I did say that *if there are any nice ones, I for one have never met them*,
not that there aren't any.

In another thread you were happy to distinguish
the various types of people you encounter in sunny Peckham.

Balham, pur-lease! ;-)

You cannot
be serious in your view that all bus drivers are objectionable. If you
were to spend 5 minutes thinking about the abuse and stress they have to
tolerate then you might be a bit more sympathetic.

Abuse? From whom? Stress, OK, I agree, it's a pretty stressful job, but that
doesn't mean they have to treat passengers with total disdain and look at us
as though we've crawled out of the nearest gutter. Have you ever tried
asking one of them a simple question, like saying "could you please tell me
when we get to []?", just to be met with a glazed-over look and a grunt?

There are plenty of skilled and polite bus drivers in London

I'm sure there are. It's just that, as I said, I have never met them.

You'll be telling us next that all journalists are lovely people and are
not really self serving rat like creatures living in the gossip infested
sewers.

LOL. You're thinking of a different type of journo to me!

I suggest we put you in a boxing ring with one or two of our LU hating
group members and then leave you to knock seven bells out of each other
as to which group of transport workers is worst.

Double LOL! How could anyone hate LU? ;-))))

Ian

Ian F. wrote:

Abuse? From whom? Stress, OK, I agree, it's a pretty stressful job, but that
doesn't mean they have to treat passengers with total disdain and look at us
as though we've crawled out of the nearest gutter. Have you ever tried
asking one of them a simple question, like saying "could you please tell me
when we get to []?", just to be met with a glazed-over look and a grunt?

You should live out here in the wilds of Essex where the last bus sails
by the bus-stop ten minutes early while you're waiting to cross the
road!
--
Kat

Kat typed

You should live out here in the wilds of Essex where the last bus sails
by the bus-stop ten minutes early while you're waiting to cross the
road!

They do that in Middlesex too...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
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Kat typed

You should live out here in the wilds of Essex where the last bus sails
by the bus-stop ten minutes early while you're waiting to cross the
road!

They do that in Middlesex too...


Ah, Middlesex...

Oggi, Oggi, Oggi!
Oi! Oi! Oi!

Midle, Middle, Middle!
Sex! Sex! Sex!

(Once repeated in Holland, to howls of laughter from the natives. Why?
Because the Dutch apparantly know what "Left Sex" or "Right Sex" are, but
hadn't heard of "Middle Sex" :-)) )

--
MatSav
At the edge of Middlesex