bus rides = hell rides

Find that several of our SBS bus drivers are kinda reckless in their driving. Wonder why do they seems to be in a rush to reach the interchange. Could it be that they were driving with an almost exploding bladder? Seems like all those toots and beeps going on in the bus makes the nature call even more urgent. Maybe I don't know what is driving those bus drivers nutz but I do hope they could drive more safely. With all the accelerating and braking shaking the bus forward and backward, it's not gonna be a safe ride for the children, elderly and pregnant women.

Do you sometimes wonder out loud while waiting for a bus that the waiting seems like eternity? I wonder that often. Tend to imagine they are off somewhere buying kopi and was too engrossed in conversation with kopi uncle. Worst still. The bus you are waiting for comes in pairs or threes. Reminds me of girls going to toilet in pairs during Pri. sch days. Years back, having bus side by side at a traffic junction is such a rare phenomenon to the bus drivers that they tend to shout happily across each other. Perhaps it felt like seeing your old pri sch classmate. Now I hardly see such things happening because they tend to exchange glares more. Wonder how they could hear each other in the midst of the noisy bus engine and traffic. Maybe they lip read. Lip reading hokkien speech is a feat by the way.

I do pity the bus drivers are so low paid and they have to work on weekends when they could be elsewhere with their family or love ones. But some of the bus drivers just make you hang on to the handpole so tight like you are gonna head for a crash. Hope that bus uncles will have a better attitude when driving on the road and avoid reckless accelerating and braking. Think of those kids, elder folks and pregnant women on the bus can?