Today I was waiting for a bus, and I saw it coming but instead of coming past the bus stop, it turned left and went up another road, which was completely off-route. I thought maybe there was roadworks somewhere and so had to go a diverted route. So I got the next bus at the bus stop before my usual one.
Anyway, when I was on the bus and it arrived into the high street (the previous bus would have missed the whole high street), a lady got on and said to the driver that they had all been waiting for the previous bus that never came. The driver said it was running because he had passed that one further along the route earlier, and he said it must have been early arriving at the bus stop. Plus there was no sign of any roadworks anywhere.
Now, I had been waiting at the bus stop just before you get to the high street, so I was the only one who witnessed it go another way. It was the cue for me to say to the annoyed lady that I saw the previous bus turn down another road for some reason, just to prove that it wasn't her fault she had missed it, and to prove to the driver that it wasn't early, it didn't serve the high street at all. When a bus doesn't turn up I know that passengers like a reason, and I could have provided the reason.
But I was too shy to speak up, so I just sat there quietly, watching the driver argue with the lady (the driver obviously wasn't the same driver as the one on the previous bus). Does anyone else feel like this? You know it's appropriate to speak up to strangers but you shy away instead.
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06 Aug 2018, 6:36 am
