Monday, February 7, 2011

Do they thoroughly backround check bus drivers?

Public transportation I've decided is a saddest system devised by people who have never actually had to use it. Until my bank account is suddenly flushed with my hard earned "job" money it's unfortunately a necessary evil. I am very curious about the people who become bus drivers. They run the gambits of personalities in the bus lines I have been riding lately. There is the Christen African immigrant gentleman, who is actually pretty great and will let you on for free if your fare card is too low. Then there is the other male drivers, they all seem like they didn't quite make the cut for Nascar or something; always bucking the buses at red lights like they are in their suped up 95' civics. My personal "favorite" was the woman I had today; I will call her angry black woman. Now please, I am only denoting her race because she was black, but she could have just as easily been white, Asian, whatever. I rarely feel that my life is in danger when I am on the bus, it’s bigger than all the other vehicles and that counts for something in head on collisions. Even though the lack of seat belts has always been disconcerting. But this woman truly seem to have a disregard for human life. She jerked the bus into oncoming traffic like it was a suicide mission. Glaring into the rear view mirror, I was positive she was staring deep in to me at all the things I was never going to do since my life would soon be over. My savior came in the form of a deviation gone wrong. The special needs gentlemen, who the deviation was for, seem to disarm our psychopathic driver. There was humanity in her after all. Shortly after, I finally arrived at my stop with a newly revived love of life. I live to face another day. Besides, tomorrow I have an interview.

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