Bus Driver and Public Transit Nightmares

Bad experiences...

I don't know if this one counts, but I had a friend who got hit by a subway train. He obviously died on impact, and I won't say anything further than that.

I remember coming home on the Metra from a Bela-Fleck & The Flecktones concert from the Ravinia, and I remember spotting a dude do a line of coke and kick a pregnant lady in the belly. I had a bottle of wine I could have thrown, but I didn't want to hit the lady. He forced his way through the crowd of drunken stoners to the next car, so I didn't bother to pursue.

Back in high school, I was waiting for the bus at the same place everyday, and one day the bus just drove right past me. I waved it down, the dude let me in (it was a substitute driver), yelled at me (I had headphones on so I didn't care for what he had to say), and continued to drive. He did the same thing for about five more stops (not to mention all the stops he could have done it eariler), and he got over the intercom yelling at us over the fact he has a schedule to keep (which is complete bullshit to begin with), and how we shouldn't flag down the bus. Since I could hear him over my headphones this time, I yelled "shut up and drive fat fuck!" That was a real bad decision, because he pulled the bus over, and took about five minutes to peel his ass out of the seat. I never realized this guy really was about 400 lbs, and everybody started laughing (students and others), because the dude really tried his damnedest to front, but really couldn't. He finally got out, pointed to the door, and told everybody to get out. We were only about five blocks from the school anyways, so it wasn't that bad.

This one isn't my story, but my coworkers instead. He was riding the PACE bus to the college down Golf Rd, and the bus engine caught fire. The funny part about it was everybody in the bus could smell smoke, but didn't know the bus was on fire. A Sherrif's Office police officer had to pull over the bus to get it to stop, and the street was bottlenecked to take care of the incident. I ended up picking him up from a local restaurant to get him to work.

Jam it back in, in the dark.