how are you on a bus ?

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I do ok on buses which is good since that is my only way to get anywhere other than walking or spending a lot of money on a cab.

I like getting a certain bus because one or two of the drivers has a thing for me and one of them let's me on for free and sometimes if the bus if full I get to stand up and chat to him. I do fancy both of them.

I hate getting women driving my bus, and lately they keep employing women.
I don't want toddlers next to me or behind me - I get too agitated.
I don't really like people sitting next to me but sometimes it can't always be helped.
My bus is about a 22-mile route altogether, but they only operate buses with 32 seats, which isn't enough to seat all the passengers, and I hate having to stand up unless my favourite drivers are on it (which usually they're not nowadays)
My ''favourite seat'' is forth seat from the front, on the driver's side.
I avoid sitting on seats that face backwards because I get people opposite me staring at me for the whole duration.

I have got somebody laughing at me once on the bus. It was a stormy Saturday afternoon, very crowded on the bus, and a fat woman came and sat next to me with a baby on her lap. The baby was about 10 months old, and luckily she was quiet, but I still felt claustophobic, and got very fidgety and agitated. The woman didn't seem to notice, but I heard the woman behind me laugh, and I turned round and saw her looking at me funny, and something told me she was laughing at me. Immature b***h.

Then I done something I feel awfully bad about. This was about 3 years ago, back when I used to disallow people sitting next to me by looking angry. But this girl came upto my seat, smiling and going to sit down, but I didn't look at her properly, I just turned the other way with a stiff, angry expression, but after that I suddenly had a feeling that she might of been a girl I knew from school who I haven't spoken to since I left school, and just wanted to sit with me and have a friendly chat. It might not have been, but something told me it might have been, and now I feel guilty and very ashamed of myself for reacting in such a way. Now I've learnt to not act like that any more, but to just let people sit there. I mean, they won't bite.

Twice now I have got somebody coming upto my seat, moving my bag, throwing it on my lap and sitting there - WHEN THERE WERE OTHER SEATS AVALIABLE. I think that is very rude and ill-mannered, to pick up somebody else's belongings and throwing them on my lap just to sit there. I feel like saying, ''how about asking next time? Or go and sit somewhere else if it's that much trouble for you!'' I would never pick up someone else's bags and throw them on their lap and sit there. I'd sit there feeling embarrassed and awkward, because I know that some people (especially women) don't like other people touching their things.

I've never had people drop their bags in my lap (thank god, I probably would freak out), but I have put my book bag in the adjacent seat to encourage people to look for other seats. Unfortunately, some decide to sit on my books, and I do not take that well.

Not as badly as someone throwing things at me, though. Ugh, horrible.

Fine now. But I used to panic a little thinking I had boarded the wrong bus and worry about that and the trapped feeling and lack of control.

I prefer to drive myself in my own car, but when that's not possible cause it's in the shop or I don't have one, I've ridden the bus in Bham. I hate it.

I don't have meltdowns or anything I just hate it. I can't ever get where I want to go when I want to be there without some convoluted trip.

'm not afraid of anyone or too much of anything, so nothing on it bothers me, if anything I'm the one bothering them.

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I can go on buses and trains with friends, because they know what they're doing on public transport, but usually when I use public transport myself I'm likely to get myself lost.

I cannot wait until I have a car, honestly. As soon as I have the money I'm getting one, simple as that.

Public transport makes me too uncomfortable, so I don't go on such.

I personally love taking the bus to work, if only there weren't any other people on it. I like buses, but the people who take it... I believe they're just born to make other people's life miserable, I had some horror stuff what concerns the people on the bus. I prefer empty buses over crowdy ones all the time. Bus drivers are fairly nice over here, they're lovely people to have a chat with, but some of the people who take the bus... nah man... I prefer being stuck in traffic for 30 mins in my mom's car over sharing the bus with them for 5 minutes, sorry that I'm generalizing, but in my area... it's... just... madness...

I always used to read on the bus. That way I didn't have to look at people, but I sometimes missed my stop. I never sat next to anybody if I could avoid it.

Other than the problem of being surrounded by people, I've always had trouble keeping my balance. When the bus goes into a curve, I almost keel over. I don't know how other people manage to lean back and sit upright, I somehow can't seem to do that and instead sit hunched forward. It's the same in cars, but the seat belt helps a bit.

Hated... HATED riding the school bus. It was way too noisy and everyone just wanted to bother me, it seemed.

Public transportation where I live is horrendous, so it has been quite a while since I rode a bus here. I remember disliking it.

I didn't mind the public transportation when I was in Germany though. It was pretty simple, it worked very well (at least were I was), and the people tended to leave you alone.

The last time I took a bus, this man next to me asked me to let him know whenever a cop car passed by.

So.

School buses are fine as long as I have music and most of the windows are closed and other people don't constantly ask truck drivers to honk their horns.

I am alright with buses however prefer to travel on trains though.

I used to have panic attacks every time I went on buses, but now I can ride certain buses ok - if I know the exact route and am able to sit on my own and listen to music or play with my phone.

School buses didn't bother me much, but city buses are a whole different story, because of some of the people who use them. Talking as loud as they can, every other word a swear word, and fighting with anyone (including the driver) who dares to ask them to stop. If I absolutely have to take a city bus, the only way I can tolerate it is with my music and earphones. Fortunately these days my wife and I are able to take para-transit buses for the disabled, which carry a lot less people and are much quieter than the city buses.

I always feel relaxed when I ride the bus because the bus in my area is safe, even though it gets crowded during rush hour. I just read the Metro and listen to my iPod. I'm not hypersensitive to any environmental stimuli.