We got the bleedin trams there now innit

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Ivor Jones wrote:

"Moo Moo MhuttsAss" wrote in
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We need more of that in this country

More of what..? If you don't quote what you're replying to, how is anyone
to know..?

DOES NOT MATTER. MORE OF IT DAMMIT!!!

tom

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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Ivor Jones wrote:

"Moo Moo MhuttsAss" wrote in
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We need more of that in this country

More of what..? If you don't quote what you're replying
to, how is anyone to know..?

DOES NOT MATTER. MORE OF IT DAMMIT!!!

Taxes..? Petrol price rises..? Murders..?

Ivor

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"John Rowland" wrote in message
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Hi all,

There seemed to be .....

And you thought you would get a sensible answer?

All the answers had some use, except yours.

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"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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Or perhaps they were meeting to discuss how best to deal with passengers
who get on and refuse to pay, threatening to punch the drivers' lights out
if they dare ask them to.

I've never done, or even dreamed of doing, any such thing, yet I've been
insulted, ignored and scowled at - and slung to the floor by abysmal
driving - by countless bus drivers.

Ian

passengers
who get on and refuse to pay, threatening to punch the drivers' lights
out
if they dare ask them to.


Izerntit

"Ian F." wrote in message

"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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Or perhaps they were meeting to discuss how best to
deal with passengers who get on and refuse to pay,
threatening to punch the drivers' lights out if they
dare ask them to.

I've never done, or even dreamed of doing, any such
thing, yet I've been insulted, ignored and scowled at -
and slung to the floor by abysmal driving - by countless
bus drivers.

I would never dream of suggesting that you would try and evade payment,
but an awful lot of people do. Come and travel on my bus and you will see
what I mean. A large proportion (I won't say a majority, since it isn't,
although it sometimes seems that way) of passengers in my area
(Birmingham) seem to think it is perfectly normal and acceptable behaviour
to not pay their bus fare.

Requesting assistance over the radio from an inspector or the police is
usually met with the reply "let them travel" - it's cheaper to let the
passengers travel free than to pay the driver sick pay while he's off work
having been assaulted. I ask you, what other business do you know of that
actively permits its' customers to avail themselves of the goods or
services supplied free of charge..?!

The driver gets it in the neck (sometimes literally) if he/she dares to
question this, with the appalling results that most drivers don't bother,
meaning free travel has become normal and acceptable.

By the way, I don't sling passengers to the floor (unless I am forced to
do an emergency brake by an idiot car driver, which unfortunately happens
on occasion) nor do I insult or scowl at people, unless they do the same
to me first, that is, when I reserve the right to give as good as I get.

Ivor

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passengers
who get on and refuse to pay, threatening to punch the
drivers' lights out
if they dare ask them to.


Izerntit

Que..?

Ivor

We want MORE of that !

"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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By the way, I don't sling passengers to the floor (unless I am forced to
do an emergency brake by an idiot car driver, which unfortunately happens
on occasion) nor do I insult or scowl at people, unless they do the same
to me first, that is, when I reserve the right to give as good as I get.

We need more of the likes of you in London, Ivor. The dour, pig-ignorant,
slow-witted bunch of loonies that we have as bus-drivers (and this is the
majority, not just a few) could do with your measured, intelligent attitude.

Ian
(ducks to escape slaps from the three Ivor-esque London bus-drivers on these
groups!)