Attention Bus Drivers: Use some grey matter!

[darkwolf]

I have the day off work so I'm going to find any excuse I can to go for a ride. Go to make my morning coffee - no milk. Awesome! This is a great excuse for a ride.

So I nip down to the dairy on the bike, pop in grab some milk come back out and there's a bloody school bus parked about a foot from the rear wheel of my bike. I look at the bus driver as if to say "What the f*ck are you playing at?" but before I can even get animated about the subject he's tapping at his wrist like I'm holding him up.

At this point I can't see anything behind my bike because there is a great big bus filling up both my mirrors. Being on a main road, I'm not about to pull into traffic hoping that there won't be anything coming. So I sit there. I just wait until I can hear the bus starting to reverse in frustration and then proceed to sneak around the corner. Which was always an option but sends me in the complete opposite direction of where I wanted to go (in fact it directs me straight home).

Now I parked directly outside the dairy. It's not a bus stop. What the hell is this guys problem? Would I have been within my rights to stand there holding up my middle finger until he managed to engage a more civilised portion of his brain?

[Ender EnZed]

What the hell is this guys problem?

What's your's? It's not that hard to take a look around a large object before pulling out.

Would I have been within my rights to stand there holding up my middle finger until he managed to engage a more civilised portion of his brain?

Absolutely. But you'd look like a dick and it wouldn't help anything.

[oneofsix]

What's your's? It's not that hard to take a look around a large object before pulling out.

As already stated - no morning coffee hence the ride to the dairy

Absolutely. But you'd look like a dick and it wouldn't help anything.

Could be a squashed dick

Darkwolf was parked parallel with the kerb?
Bus drivers, especially school ones are special.

[avgas]

I would have taken the keys out of the bike and gone for a walk to calm down..........then laugh.

[Murray]

there's a bloody school bus parked about a foot from the rear wheel of my bike.
At this point I can't see anything behind my bike because there is a great big bus filling up both my mirrors.

You parallel park????

[darkwolf]

Yeah, I'm keen to keep my bike outta harms way as much as possible. Given the encounter with the bus, I'm picking this was the best choice, plus reversing with helmet on into a gutter which would be better described as a ditch, i think I'll take my chances with f*ckwit bus drivers.

[bikaholic]

doh, bus driver, grey matter, isn't one due to a lack of the other?

[FJRider]

Park on the foot path ... its allowed in Akaroa ... apparently ...

[Pseudonym]

If you want problems with busses just come to Auckland.
You don’t need the bike, as a car driver, pedestrian, cyclist, passenger or even another bus driver they will make you hate all of humanity with a burning passion.
I have even seen cops screaming at them!

Taxis are still worse though…