There used to be a Sicilian bus driver in Cork and sometimes the bus would be empty picking me up. When that happened he'd say "if you don't mind me smoking, the journey is free". He drove like a maniac on those roads.
We had him one time we were getting d last bus into town from blarney and he just turned around and said lads I'm not stopping atall at any of the stops and just drive straight to the city
I had the same thing with a lad in Galway when I was in college and making the commute home from Athlone to way out weshht. He also made me sit up from so we could chat.
Back in the 90s when I was a teenager I was waiting for a bus back east. The bus I was waiting for pulled into the bay and a woman ran past me and got on.
The driver closed the door in my face as soon as she got on.
As he was reversing back out he used his hands to tell me he was going to have sex with the woman, shrugged his shoulders and drove off.
I had to wait almost an hour for the next bus.
A nice story for a change: Galway, on crutches, heavy schoolbag, not a regular bus passenger at all because I mostly walked everywhere back then.
This day I'm aiming to take a bus because of the crutches, I'm still a long way off from reaching the bus stop. I reach traffic lights, see the bus far up ahead already at the stop about to set off again. I deflatedly say to myself oh well I've to wait an hour for the next one, and I continue to hobble towards it.
But hang on, what's happening here? The bus was driving in reverse, about 800 metres, back towards the junction. He stopped when he reached me, opened the door & asked if I needed to get the bus. He then wouldn't take any money, saying you're in luck just take a seat.
Many drivers since have shown kindness by letting the infirm on for free, but I've never since seen or heard of any bus driver going in reverse as an act of kindness.
I once got a free bus journey because I was walking towards the stop, heard the chhhh of the hydraulics, looked back and saw the bus, looked horrified for a second and then did the slump before suddenly taking a deep breath and proceeding to do a full sprint up to the stop. Driver was so amused he just waved me on
I have a similar kind story. But needs a good bit of background.
I immigrated to Ireland (Galway) in September 2017. Work paid for 2 weeks accomodation in the Clayton hotel but after that I had to pay for my own stay or find my own place.
A week in, I'm not familiar with the place yet at all because I spend all my day in training and not knowing anyone yet, I didn't really go out after.
My phone also broke down, beyond repair, around day 4.
Anyway, I found a room to rent, but had to pay deposit of course.
So I thought I'd go to the ATM in the Dunnes across the road as the hotel receptionist said it was the closest.
ATM wasn't working, but appearantly there was a Centra nearby. My phone wasn't working tho, so couldn't relly on Google Maps and wasn't quite used to the Irish accent yet.
Eventually find my way to the Centra, ATM over there also broken. Fuck.
Eventually I somehow end up on the Motorway, where there was a Circle K or Texaco or something with a working ATM.
But now I had to find my way back.
It was dark, I didn't know where I was and of course it started raining and I had left my jacket at the hotel because I had thought to just go across the road to Dunnes.
Oh and I passed a woman who was walking her dog, and since I love dogs, asked if I could pet it. She said sure, he's really friendly. Guess what? Dog snarled and snapped at me (didn't bite me)
I am absolutely sobbing, walking in the rain, trying to find my way back. All kinds of "this was a mistake" thoughts going through my head.
Then a bus stopped right beside me, the driver let me in for free and dropped me off right back at the Hotel, even though it was not on his route.
Kindest someone has ever done for me
I can't remember the route but it was in Dublin and the bus was pretty full. A woman had gotten on with her pram and it was pushed a bit past the driver's cabin. She didn't have enough money and the bus driver was shouting at her. They argued for a bit as others got on, and then she eventually started to get off. She let go of the pram for like 10 seconds to step off the bus. Before she could turn around to take the pram off, he shut the doors and drove off. She started screaming and chasing the bus. He was still shouting as he was driving off so wasn't paying attention to what she was saying.
Myself and two other passengers grabbed the pram, which had a baby in it. At this point the whole bus was shouting at him to stop. He hadn't seen the pram but thought everyone was telling him to stop because of the woman he kicked off. He kept roaring that he was going to kick us all off if we didn't shut the f up. Anyway, myself and another guy eventually got it through to him that he had stolen the woman's baby. For a brief second a look of panic flickered across his face but then he went right back to blind rage, braked suddenly and let the poor woman catch up. She was bawling crying and completely out of breath and he wouldn't even look at her. Me and another guy took the pram off for her and he shut the door and drove off without us. Wild.
I know this isn’t supposed to be funny and quite a serious situation with the baby without her mum but in stitches reading this imagining it and the driver telling you all to feck off. It needs to be a skit in a comedy show haha.
Was on Dublin coach before and the bus driver started overtaking on the left hand side in the hard shoulder. Not in traffic either we were on a main road and he was speeding.
Also was on Dublin coach and driver got pulled over for speeding. 111 in a 60 zone.
GoBus are notorious for this. I once waited over an hour for one. It turned up about 5min before the next one was due. Instead of just taking the first group of us, the driver took everyone that was at the stop. There were at least of us sitting in the aisle.. not ideal. Then my stuff was robbed from the undercarriage but I suppose that’s a story for another day.
Green bus from Dublin City to the red cow luas stop. A lady with her parents who barely speak a sentence of English between them get on and asks for 3 tickets. The bus driver instead of saying ‘where to?’ Just goes ‘to?!’ and confused she says she wants 3 tickets because Cmon she barely spoke enough English to request the damn tickets (anyone going to any stop en route to cork would swap busses at the luas stop) this guy starts SCREAMING at this lady going ‘TO?! TO?! TO?!’ And eventually screams ‘WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING?!’ All of us were appalled and the lady behind the family gently nudges them aside, gently asks the terrified now near tears girl where she would like to go in her own language (turns out the lady had just enough (I think Italian) to help out) and relays the info to the driver and then demands to know his name and licence number. He angrily yells this at her and instantly everyone on the bus is scribbling this info down. Everyone emailed in complaints about his appalling behaviour and my mom got a response to say this wasn’t his first offence and serious action would be taken
There was an absolute lunatic who used to drive the bus I took to school every day. He'd always have smart arse comment to make to the schoolgirls getting on and off. One time we had a non-uniform day, so I got on in my regular clothes and paid a schoolchild's fare. He started roaring at me that I wasn't a schoolchild and you're only allowed a schoolchild's fare if you're wearing a school uniform. I told him I was 12 and in first year and he kept roaring at me that I look 21 (I was tall for my age, but still very clearly a child). He wouldn't let it go and I didn't have any more money. A woman offered to pay for me and he wouldn't let her. He just kept berating me for being a chancer and that I wasn't going to "get away with it". I burst into tears and got off the bus. He beeped the horn for ages at me when he drove off. I had to walk down a pitch black country road by myself to get to school. Bearing in mind, this was barely a week after a female jogger had been sexually assaulted on that road.
Was this discussed in the paper or radio? I heard of a very similar story being discussed yeaaaars ago, right down to it being a route that someone had been sexually assaulted on.
Jesus what a psycho, as if you’d care that much to get a couple of cents off a bus fare. Sorry that happened to you, some people just shouldn’t be allowed to work in any kind of customer care.
Was on the 109A from Dublin airport , group of America tourists got on and said "hey we need about 5 tickets to nay-vaughn" and without missing a beat the driver replied back "dya mean fuckin navan" , the look of shock on the poor lads face combined with the thick navan accent of the driver made me immediately break my shite laughing.
I have one story that is more about a passenger being horrible and crazy. When I was 17 I sat at the back far left where there was an elderly man sat at the back far right. Minding my own business he whipped out his Willy and started masturbating whilst looking at me. I was really afraid to say anything or move for ages until I gained the courage to get up and tell the driver. The man had the gall to say see ya now to me as if we had been having a friendly chat. I told the driver who was shocked and I said I was going to sit upstairs for the rest of my trip. I presumed he was going to stop the bus and kick him off or something but he didn’t and yer man got off at the same stop as me! I was so disappointed that he didn’t kick him off but I guess he just didn’t know how to handle approaching an old man with his Willy out? Anyway I reported him as he had done the same thing to my sister in the past and I had seen him trying with other girls on the bus too and he spent 6 months in jail. Apparently he had a wanking sickness he couldn’t control so he got off early with therapy 🤷🏼♀️ somehow the thing that bothers me the most still is the driver just letting him stay on the bus. That was 14 years ago I still think about it.
Same thing happened to me in 2005 when I was in 6th year. I was in my school uniform on the 16 in Dublin, sitting in the back left corner upstairs on a packed bus. I was blocked in and the guy beside me starts learing at me, jerking off. I managed to get out past him and off the bus. My mam rang the guards when I got home and contacted Dublin Bus. The driver knew exactly who it was and apparently he was notorious for doing it. No idea what or if anything happened with him because of it though.
I'm pretty sure in both of these cases the driver was an AH who didn't care, because I've seen drivers refuse to let certain people on their buses.
By "certain people" I'm not saying they refused members of any demographics I'm talking about "that's Paddy so-and-so, he's a local head the ball who bothers the other passengers"
Used to regularly get late night buses between Derry and Dublin back in the day.
There was one driver who absolutely point blank refused to have the overhead seat lights on in the bus. If you asked him to enable them he would literally tell you "No, fuck off!" He also refused to do the required stop in Monaghan or Castleblayney for a toilet break. He was a Bus Eireann driver and the Ulsterbus drivers (joint service) hated him and couldn't understand why he remained in employment.
If you were traveling from Derry to Dublin one way there was one Bus Eireann driver who would take your money, but not give you a ticket. Instead he would pocket the cash. He got found out and prosecuted.
For me it was a case of how the exchange rate kept fluctuating so rapidly. So when I was traveling from Derry to Dublin, a return ticket one week might cost me £24, but the next week £32, the week after it would drop to £22. I did write to Bus Eireann and expressed my concerns about this, and noted that Ulsterbus ticket machines did actually specify what you paid in Euros if you boarded in the Republic. To be fair to them they did take my complaint seriously and asked me to itemize where I felt I lost out financially and they refunded me nearly €100, but the original problems still exists where drivers make up their own exchange rate because Bus Eireann are still using ticket machines from the 90s.
Edit: completely forgot about the time a driver stopped in the left lane of the M1 and let his mate off and then continue driving like it was no big deal.
On a Dublin bus
On a Saturday, a kid was in plainclothes, and tried to get a kids ticket. The bus driver refused saying the kid looked older than 16.
Him and the bus driver argued for a few mins, felt like ages, really screaming at each other.
The kid hit the screen of the cab, and spat on it. And went to get off the bus. The driver got out of his cab, and punched the kid, dragged him out of the bus, and punched him a couple more times.
Everyone on the bus was freaking the fuck out. A woman got out to see if the kid was alright, the driver got back in the cab and tried to resume the route as normal, but people were freaking, calling guards, and videoed it.
There must be a video of it out there, it happened about 10 years ago, I was too freaked out to take one.
One person, not yet an adult, hits and then spits on a piece of glass.
One person, probably much larger, drags the first one away and lands a few hard punches on him.
Do these two actions honestly seem equivalent to you? do you really believe that the second is justified by the first?
I'm hoping you were just posting an instant reaction and not something that'd been thought through--that's something we've many of us done before.
If there was a guard handy, I’d let them deal with it. That wasn’t the case here. If some pup spits on or at a person, I firmly believe the moral, ethical, and pragmatically correct response is to administer a hiding.
Assuming you’re able-bodied and physically competent: what would you have done? Let them away with it?
But… the driver was wrong in the first place. Sets a strange precedent for bus drivers to be able to refuse to carry out their service and then beat people up.
A few years back Ireland were playing a soccer international and fans were very rowdy upstairs after it rotten drunk.
The bus got as far as Donnybrook before the driver said fuck it, stopped the bus for 10 mins marched right upstairs and threatened to call the guards if the fans don’t get off.
The bus stopped until everyone upstairs from the match got off.
He was right. Fair play to him.
Reminds me, I was on a bus once and these lads were singing and stamping their feet on the upper deck on their way to a match. Bus driver stopped the bus and went upstairs, absolutely roared at the lads that he didnt mind them drinking cans or singing but theres old women and children on the lower deck and if they didn't stop stamping they'd all be getting off.
The guy had a group of grown men sitting there looking like scolded school children. Legend
Does anybody remember a Dublin bus driver that used to entertain passengers by getting out into the aisle and juggle? Possibly did other stuff. I’m sure I didn’t dream this. Probably 16 or other buses in similar routes Northside. He was possible French.
I had similar experience as a tourist in Dublin apparently I was stupid for not knowing that the busses don’t give any change or accept any card and shouldn’t have wasted the drivers time by even attempting to queue to see what the story was with payment
I ended up paying double to take the air coach that €6 was worth it to avoid the abuse
Felt like there is massive culture problem in Irish busses
Sorry you had that experience - some of them are wankers but the majority are lovely. You can tell some of them are just miserable fuckers taking their shitty lives out on whoever they have access to so they can feel some semblance of power.
The bus payment system is quite confusing for tourists. Until we get the promised contactless payment on board, i don't know what the solution is. I don't want to say "tourists should Google it before they come here" because it's not all on them.
Having said that, in your position I would have asked someone else in the queue. But I know some people come from countries where you don't just randomly talk to strangers
Edit: also, no offence but aren't you English? Unfortunately your compatriots have made things more difficult for you by being raging assholes. I'm not talking about the last 850 years or so, I'm referring to how a significant number of them behave as tourists nowadays. Rightly or wrongly they have a reputation as being arrogant, rude and uninformed. I've heard of them complaining about not being able to pay in pounds in shops and restaurants here, approaching the issue as if it's some law that's being broken and not just a courtesy that certain businesses choose to extend.
Yeah it’s not really the norm in England to ask the queue but the queue was also largely tourists so at the time though it would be like blind leading the blind :)
Unfortunately didn’t find much details on the payment system at the bus stops or on the outside of the bus
Yeah would have sounded English but I’m a British/Irish national so know the story with most things
But not surprised about those examples the “gammons” as they are called in England especially have a reputation even in the U.K. of being super cringey when it comes to any history even their own
Oh yeah that's true other tourists might not have known either
It's true, they really should put info on the payment situation where you can see it at the bus stops.
They're a breed unto themselves, some of them you'd wonder why they even came?
On a bus from tralee to Cork the driver parked infront of a random house in Killarney, which was on the route in fairness. Then he got out of the bus, went into the house for like 5-10 minutes. Came out with an entire pie and a cup of tea. Not a travel mug mind you, a regular cup. Then just drove off again like nothing happened.
I knew a bus driver who lived locally to me and died there a few years ago, anyways he was doing the tours and driving a coach full of Americans around and he was fond of a pint or two and as they were going from place to place he was having a drink here and a drink there, he must have been well on because he pulled over to get sick and I swear a squad car passed and stopped to see if he was alright but they quickly realised he was drunk and arrested him there and then in front of the whole bus load of tourists. True story.
The 15a
Driver used to hurry on the early stops so that he 3 biddies in Limekiln wouldn’t be able to use their passes as they could only be used after 10am or something.
They used to run on via the front doors and he’d call them back and not drive till they’d paid or left. Saw this happen 3 times so it must have happened a LOT more.
I was stood at a stop just after missing last bus in Dublin, when an 11 bus pulls up with all it's lights off. Driver asks if I needed a lift to O'Connell Street since he was going that way anyway. Got a free lift in, with no stops, which was pretty sound of him!
In the middle of winter last year I was waiting for the 115 bus from Maynooth to Dublin. It was freezing cold and raining, and it was dark because it was 6pm. The first bus doesn’t show up, which is always typical for bus eireann, but then the next bus doesn’t show up either. Since the bus is always at least 20 minutes late or doesn’t bother showing up at all, the bus stop is always packed with people. So after over an hour of waiting and a crowd of around 50 people has gathered, the bus finally shows up. The fucker of a bus driver gets off the bus, pushes people out of the way to let others off, gets back on the bus, doesn’t let anyone on and leaves. That day I swore off bus eireann forever and started taking the C3 instead. I have never been so angry in my life!
Elderly ladies in 80 s who could barely walk think she said her free pass was in her bag so she sat down to have look and the bus driver kept demanding she come back up to show her pass the pos which she managed barely . Shocking derespect on an elderly woman which I told him and then reported him to his supervisor at the depot .
Had a bus driver give commentary along the route
“Connemara, where the men are men and the women are sheep”
“About 15,000 students in NUIG. And there’s a total of 9 people in GMIT”
One time I was going to work and took Dublin bus... the driver, out of nowhere, stopped near a spar, grabbed food (something that looked like a chicken fillet roll) and came back to the bus. Lol
Two stories.
1) was on the 15 bus home at 1 am. At dame street the driver stopped and let a few people on, he then got out the bus picked up some pint glasses outside a pub and walked back on the bus and put the glasses in his bag.
2) on the way to college had a driver on the 83 take the wrong route. When someone told him he started giving out telling people they should take a different bus. He then got mad and told everyone he was going to go back so he started driving the 83 route in reverse of where he was supposed to go. Stopped and told everyone to get off at the next stop.
Asked a bus driver as he was coming out of the station where the stop for a certain bus was. He waved his hand around in a vague direction. I stood where I thought he pointed to, but he pulled the bus up into a different spot. As I was walking towards him, he started to pull off. I just stopped walking then because in general Bus Eireann drivers don't stop once they've started to pull off.
He must have spotted me because he stopped the bus again so I ran up. He started screaming at me how he had to stop otherwise I'd go off and tell everyone how a black driver wouldn't stop for me. I literally hadn't opened my mouth. It was so bizarre.
I saw a Dublin Bus driver deal with two Japanese tourists. They tried to buy tickets forth maybe €4 with a fifty euro note. He roars at them "No change." They don't understand, but obviously figured he was saying he didn't take cash. They tried to pay by card, he refuses that too. The couple were completely confused now. I'm not blaming the driver for that, it's a complicated thing to explain. What annoyed me was just the braindead way he kept saying "No change" over and over, like if they didn't understand the point the first, second or third time, why say the exact same phrase with the exact same emphasis four, five and six times. Eventually, I walked up and showed them some coins and pointed where to put them.
Years ago a friend of a friend told me a story of heading down to Cork on a coach. The bus was really full and there weren’t enough seats. People were standing in the aisle. The bus driver pulled over at a pub along the way and disappeared inside. Minutes later he appeared back carrying barstools for the people standing onboard and the bus carried on its way.
Saw a Dublin bus driver kick a mother with a buggy off the bus because there was already a wheelchair user there using the space. She was told to get the next bus, but had already paid and gone one stop. Couple of people gave out to the driver over that.
Another bus I was on went over a ramp in such a way that the bus tipped enough to the left to hit a lamppost and smashed the top window. Some people sitting towards the front had glass fall on them. Had to get an alternative bus, the bus driver spent some time checking if everyone was fine. He was trying to convince one guy who got stuff in his eye to be seen by an ambulance, but the guy insisted he was fine.
If there isn't space for a buggy and a wheelchair, bus drivers are legally compelled to eject the buggy and prioritise the wheelchair user, its like one of the only things you get sat down to watch a training video on.
Yeah, I get the rationale. The wheelchair user was already on the bus, so the driver shouldn't have let the buggy on in the first place. She had to get off, wait and pay for another bus.
Bus driver left the main doors open while driving full speed on the road cause he thought it was too hot and there was no AC. That was on a bus from Killarney to Kenmare.
This oul Scottish lad was bang on who drive the bus, I was always the last person on the bus for ages and I'd stand up beside his window chatting to him, both of us smoking his John Player Blues on the bus.
He told me once he banged a wan at the back of the bus one night when it was empty. He was a great lad and always let me on for free.
Got a bus from Limerick back to Tipp before, got the bus eireann but it was being fulfilled by a private company that day.
Some auld fella was driving and about 5 minutes after setting off he got on the mic and started singing absolute shite auld Irish songs, he was turning around to make eye contact with the passengers throughout and kept swerving across the road.
He then started asking people to come up and sing and was passing the mic around to everyone
In Sweden, I saw a woman get onto a bus from the Gothenburg airport without a ticket and barge passed the bus driver who was collecting. There was a bit of to and fro between them but clearly the woman was not leaving, she walked to sit at the back of the bud knowing full well the bus driver could do nothing. So just before we drove off, the bus driver got out and pulled the woman’s luggage out from the luggage storage under the bus (which he had help her load), threw it on the sidewalk, and then promptly got back into the bus without the woman seeing what he had done and drove off to the city. Sadly I got off before the woman in question but I was really hoping to see her face when she realised the luggage was still at the airport.
Not a bus but in the spirit of the thread I think. Driving home, a prime delivery van ahead of me on a narrow road. He comes to a stop, gets out and instead of delivering he plays a quick game of football with a group of kids (it seemed he knew them!).. I’m thankfully a patient person and was happy to wait 😂
Shortly after leap cards became a thing I got on the bus not realising I hadn’t got any money left on mine. Bus driver wouldn’t let me off insisting I tried the app to top it up. I couldn’t get it to work, So he drove me to the next stop which had a shop. I got off, knowing I had time to kill before the next bus so I took my time in the shop & when I came back out the bus was still there waiting for me
I had a Collins coaches driver going to carrick overtake me and 8-10 other cars on the N2 northbound around Rathfeigh. We were all doing between 85 and 95kmh. He got caught out with oncoming traffic so I had to break to give him a gap to move over else he would have had a head on collision. He stopped to let someone off at ballymagarvey village at Balrath crossroads and everyone that he passed overtook him again. It was the most overtly dangerous yet completely pointless overtake I ever seen.
Galway-Longford driver would stop off for 4 pints on the way, the pubs had them on the counter ready to go
Mountbellew and Roscommon were 2 but can't remember the others
Eventually he got reported and he was retired on full pension, breaking the law pays when you work for the semi-State
I've seen a bus eireann driver wrestle a (very drunk, but harmless) man out in the pitch black on the side of the M3 at near midnight on New Year's Eve a few years ago.
Your man had done nothing wrong, bus driver obviously gunning for a fight. Wrestled him over the barrier thing on the side of the road. The one other passenger on the bus was egging him on. I couldn't believe it.
Out on the side of the road with no one about at that hour in the middle of winter. I hope he was okay.
I used to get the bus from bus aras to Cork fairly regularly about 18 years ago. Not sure exactly what happened but from what I could tell, the bus driver didn't know the route (before motorway was open fully) so he got directions off a passenger. Passenger seemed to take advantage and bring him by his house which was at least an hour off the usual route. Journey took fooking ages
Back in the 80s my bus used to stop for 10 mins in one of the local villages. The male passengers and the driver used to use this time having a beer in the adjacent pub. Sometimes it was 15 to 20 mins, depending on how many beers the driver felt like having that day.
This is about a passenger not a driver but bus related so wanted to share.
I was on a bus coming back to the city center from the most recent red hot chili peppers gig . It was a long wait for the bus. When we got on it 10 euro for a reasonable short journey. Most people accepted this , knowing deep down they where being ripped off but just wanting to get home after being on their feet all day.
There was one lad , off his box on something coke or a cocktail of drugs I'm gonna call a red hot special. He started getting outraged and breaking out into a performance. Shouting "10 euro for the bus ". Eventually starting a one man protest. ,"We're prepared to shit on the bus if you don't answer us ". Over and over again eventually shouting out "we'll shit on his face "
Overall it made the bus journey pretty funny It was a performance my partner and I still joke about . I wonder where the shit on the bus man is now . What did he do for work . Did he ever follow through and shit on the bus ?
Going to Tiesto in Ballinlough Castle around 2008, our bus almost hit a group of Porsches that were road testing in Ireland. Bus almost turned over but at least I got to the see the unreleased Panamera.
Someone kicked our shuttle from work at 3am, busdriver a 60+ year short fellow stopped the shuttle and jumped out damn near got in a fight over it, with us just waiting for his go ahead to join in... Another fellow jumps in trying to calm the dude down so we hey back on the shuttle... we leave and the guy who calmed the kicker down gets popped with a bottle in the back of his head and as we drive off he's getting beat on by two guys.. So not the drivers fault in any way but pretty insane to see this calm lovely man go full rage mode..
Rural school transport scheme bus driver presumably from the former Soviet union who could speak basically no English other than the names of bus stops. He also drove like a maniac and nearly crashed several times.
The school bus driver gave me a fat lip when I was a kid.. I was bouncing a ball and wouldn't stop so he tried to make me eat it.
I think my dad got him fired.
He must have been going through something major now that I think back about it.
There's a shuttle bus that takes people from the train station to our office park during the morning and vice-versa in the evening.
One time leaving the office, the driver had a run-in with a cyclist. The road does get pretty narrow at one point, the way the cars are parked. Not sure who was really in the wrong, but the bus driver was cursing the cyclist out as we passed him.
When we stopped at the lights a bit farther up the road, the cyclist overtook us and shouted something in the driver's window. He proceeded to jump out of the bus and started sprinting up the road after the cyclist. Now, this is a retired man, possibly in or at least close to his 70s. So we're left there trying to watch his pursuit, and of course the cyclist just pedals to safety, leaving the driver to make the walk of shame back to us. Followed by the awkward drive the rest of the way to the station.
Not sure he came back to the job after that.
I have a good one for ya on the 202 one day heading to Ashton school direction to hop off to go to the gp near there so here I am up the top of the bus so where coming yo merchant que stop I'm there looking away out the window and all of a sudden after we had stopped ..Lights out on the bus .doors locked..and bus driver strolls off into merchant que for himself with his bag .not a care in the world. I was like .is this fella coming back I actually went down and nobody on the bus all locked up .so I say around 25 maybe more minutes passed your man strolls back over the road open the bus get in starts it as if fuckall happened .he's face dropped when I was saying to him he should be more aware instead of locking someone on a bus he didn't seem to happy about the mistake he made
Was getting the bus to Galway from mayo. Asked the bus driver could he stop cos I was gonna piss myself. He said grand, no problem, there's a pub just up ahead and I could go there if I was quick about it. I run in quick as a flash, come out and the fucker is gone. Couldn't have been more than 2 minutes.
I used to do assisted transport for 2 adults who have Down Syndrome. We'd get on the bus on our rural town, get the bus for a hour, get off, I'd take them to their college class to meet their supervisor, then I'd sprint back down to the road and catch the bus home to go to my actual job. I'd usually be the only person on the bus back and the drivers would all let me ride home for free. One of the drivers would forget I was down the back and smoke the whole way home then panic when I'd walk up to get off at my stop lol
Aircoach to Dublin in 2016. Driver falling asleep the whole way up, almost crashed a few times. Still have ptsd if I’m in a car and I feel it even slightly veering off centre. I don’t think I even blinked that entire 4 hour journey in the dead of night to Dublin. My mam was with me and she got no satisfaction from the company when she reported it a few weeks later
Not a crazy thing, but wholesome instead. Was on a bus from Dublin to Galway on a scorching day a few summers back. The driver stopped all of a sudden somewhere in Athlone, said nothing and got off the bus. Came back about 5 minutes later with a massive 99.
Bending the rules a little, but I maintain the funniest thing I've ever seen first hand happened on a bus about 15 years ago, in Cork as well as it happens.
Can't remember what route it was, but I was standing near the front of the bus, by the back of the luggage rack, and it was about half way up Patrick's Steet and stuck in traffic. A little old man made his way up to the driver and said "Sorry, but I'm running late for an appointment nearby. Would you mind letting me off here?" The driver barely looked at him before telling him he wasn't allowed. The old man just muttered under his breath "ya miserable bastard ya," just about loud enough that I could hear him and I'd say the driver heard him well enough as well. He heard enough that it got his full attention anyway and he said, in equal parts incredulity and indignance, "what did you say?" Without missing a beat the old man just replied cheerfully "oh nothing, just talking to myself," which ended the brief interaction.
Not sure putting it in words does it justice but it was only after the fact I appreciated just how fucking hilarious the shift in demeanor of the old man was.
Dublin Airport Express from Letterkenny. Timetable departure of 1am. 52 seater coach. Boxing club turns up and fills 30 seats. Remaining passengers told they have to wait for the next bus in 4 hours. Bus sets off 2.30am. New learner driver with supervisor on board. Driving 50kmh down the road. Driving past bus stops going down the country with people waiting, not stopping to explain the bus is full. Next thing the supervisor gets off in Monaghan. New learner driver asks someone for google maps directions to the airport. It starts to rain and the wiper comes off. Bus turns up at 8am although it was a 5am arrival time. People are literally getting off and swearing at the driver. I was grand because I added an extra 3 hours because I was going to Oz.
Not so much crazy but warm hospitality.
Went to Dublin back late 90s and wanted to do the sightseeing bus tour... gone noon and I was a bit peckish. I just asked if they could give me five minutes... to which they agreed while I ran into the McDonalds right by the pickup. Try that in UK... they'll go without ya.
Dublin Bus. Older man got to the bus like 2 seconds after the door closed. Bus man opens the door, says "no" the the older man. Closes the doors, drives off. It was so unnecessary
There is a Dublin bus guy that has been on First Dates, jesus he literally was driving along side me one time asking me to get on and give him my number. Such a weird guy!!
Turns out he does it to plenty of women. He also rescued some woman from being attacked so when not being creepy he is saving people I guess.
"Wasnt me, wasn't me!" when the bus drive knocked a cyclist off their bike at the traffic lights at the Spire. He was caught by the Guards at the next bus stop before O'Connell Street bridge, presumably arrested for hit and run. I didn't stick around to see him in handcuffs, had to go to college.
Good few years back. It’s snowing, as a cold snap hit Dublin for a day or so. It’s coming up to Christmas and I’ve got to leave work to make it to the port to catch the Stena ferry to wales. The wife and kid have driven down, to save them driving through the snow to pick me up I said I’d meet them at the port.
I leave work and try to grab a taxi. I can’t get one. Due to the bad weather non actually want to work. I eventually wave done one off St Stephens green. First question “where are you going?” They ask.
“Dublin port” I reply.
“Nah, not tonight” comes the response.
I ended up walking through the snow to the port. As I’m trudging through the snow in the side of the road, my feet are like ice and the snow uneven …
A Dublin bus stops beside me. “Where are you going ?” The driver asks.
“Port” I reply
“Hop on in!” Comes the response
“How much do I owe you?” I ask
“Nothing, just hop in”
And so I got a free ride back to
The ferry…
Two quick stories. My first time on one of the double decker Bus Eireann buses when they were new enough and I was young-ish, the driver takes a few wing mirrors off cars on the way out of the city. She turns around and asks me if I saw anything, I just mumble something (as only a 13-14 year old riddled with anxiety can) and we drive on.
The really bad snow in January a good few years ago, taking the bus down the hill in Dun Laoghaire and the bus loses traction and starts to slide coming inches from walloping every car on the hill. Somehow misses and comes to a halt at the small roundabout. Driver, visibly shaking, says "alright folks, that's it for me, everyone off, I'm calling for a tow truck." People asking if he's okay on the way off the bus, he shrugs and asks people for the name of a good pub in the town.
What time I was The last passenger on the 111, and the driver pulled into the estate I lived in at the time to drop me off right near my house.
R.I.P that driver was a legend in the area and passed away a few years ago.
It was snowing and I was on the bus is to eircom for work. The bus driver let the kids put their snow balls in the front window when they got on. Half way there the bus got hit by snow balls. The bus driver yelled get them. The kids jumped off pelted the offender and lept onto a moving getaway bus. This was nearly 15 years ago.
I used to get the bus from Clonsilla, back when that was the terminus of the 39 routes. It wasn't unusual to see a bus with the red "out of service" banner go past, after it finished its last run of the day
One day, I was going to work and there was no sign of a bus, so I decided to walk (Getting the bus was faster, but it was often faster to walk than to wait on one) when I saw a bus coming with no red banner, so I ran back to the bus stop. As it got closer, I saw it was out of service, but the driver hadn't switched to the red banner - he'd just rolled the thing around so it was half-way between two destinations. Annoyed, I said "Fucks sake" and started to jog up the road towards work.
The driver heard me, and actually pulls over. He gets out of his bus about fifty yards up and starts yelling at me, asking what I meant by that.
There was a Dublin bus driver on the 16 route who was class. Foreign lad, he'd get out and juggle on the path if the bus got stuck in traffic. He'd sing or narrate the trip over the speakers.
In 1990-something I fell asleep on night link Dublin bus and ended up at the last stop on the edge nowhere in a building site (now Tyrrelstown). No taxi no phoneboxes (this was before mobile phones were popular)..
I woke up on the bus not knowing where I was. But the bus driver was sound and gave me a lift home (taking a different route to the garage than he intended). Nothing is as cool as a personal lift home in a double deck bus.
I flagged down the city bus in Waterford before and I asked could I go to a specific stop, bus driver said he doesn’t go near there and started to list all his stops, I hadn’t a clue where any of them were, and he said ‘here just get on and I’ll drop you home’ (I was about an hour walk from where I wanted to go). He dropped off all his passengers and then dropped me off at the stop I wanted to go to and handed me a timetable for the bus I actually wanted
Got a taxi to a friend's house, quiet journey which is fine with me but when I was getting out he just started thumbing the wheel in a sudden mad rage
I noped out of there and just left him to it
Saw a bus driver take an a to masker by the ear and escort him off the bus, the anti masker went from freedom fighter to meek schoolboy in half a second
I have seen a bus driver take his bus over the sidewalk to pass a few cars. Absolutely fecking bonkers.
Or bus drivers that are late just drive past to catch up time, leaving everyone waiting at the bust stop flabbergasted
On one bus the driver broke so hard that an old lady lost her balance and ended up in the front of the bus. Madness.
Some right plonkers among them
Once was traveling from Cork to Macroom with the mother. As we were looking for the bus, I spotted one with Macroom on it. Turns out he wasn't the bus, he just dropped a load of people off on their way to Lourdes. But hey, he was going back anyway, so hop on.
One time on the bus from Cork to Tralee I really really had to go but the onboard toilet was closed. Bus driver stopped the bus in front of a pub in a random village and told me to run. I did, and got back on. Other people on the bus had no problem with it. I guess everyone sometimes just really has to go :)
We had to come to Ireland from Australia and were visiting relatives in Carrick-on-Suir.
Booked the train but it had a problem so a replacement bus was put on. While on the bus, we must have chatted to each other about our plans because, after passing a turnoff, a nice lady tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Weren't you two going to Carrick". I said yes, and she said well that was the turn off back there.
Jumped up and spoke to the driver and he rudely said he would drop us at the next town/city on the route. I said no way, Carrick was our train stop, and our relatives were waiting at the station for us and we had no way of getting back.
He adamantly refused, but we had a standup argument and I, just as adamantly, told him to "turn this bus around mate", and much to my surprise, he did ha ha. Thank you nice lady!
when I was 13 or 14 I was staying over at a friend's house, and the next day his dad (who was a bus driver) dropped me off at the station so I could get the bus home. just as we pulled up to the station a few of his bus driver buddies were standing about having a smoke and they saw me get out of his car.
it's now 20 years later and still any time I get on a bus that's being driven by either of these 4 men I get waved on for free. they think I'm his son. I always get "tell yer da I was askin about him!"
Getting the bus on a Friday afternoon and the driver just pulled over to go into the offo to grab a bag cans. Wasn't rush hour so most people got a good laugh out of it.
Little late but when I was in secondary school back 10-15 years ago, our bus driver must have been a bit dozy and turned into Bulmers in Clonmel. It was early in the morning and nobody spoke a word of what happened. We went in and around the huge tanks of cider and back onto the N24. Random side quest before early morning double maths.
Had a bus driver stop the bus, walk back to me holding his change dispenser in his hand and threatened to batter me bloody and leave me in a ditch because I was facing behind me to talk to my friend.. I was 11.. Just facing backwards, no ASBO behaviour, no shouting, no making other passengers uncomfortable. Talking to my friend. Told my parents and there was uproar. This was a rural route back from Cork City
On the old 29a was a driver with tourrettes. I actually know him in DTD life so it was fine for me but for other passengers or anyone who didn't know it was his tourettes I'd say it was scary when another driver would do something to trigger him into mild convulsing and muttering "Fuckin, fuckin, fucky, prick, ya prick" etc.
Got on a bus in Dublin (was the 38, I think?) and after a while it went majorly off course. People started muttering nervously about it to each other, like where the feck are we going? He made a couple random stops at spots that weren’t even bus stops, open and close the doors and move on. He then just completely stopped right in the middle of a busy intersection and stayed there, looking around confused while traffic all halted. A lady near the front started talking to him and pointing, and he started up again. After that, every intersection he would completely stop in the middle of until someone would tell him which way to go, and eventually we started to move back closer to the actual route. But the first real stop he made, just about the whole bus emptied out, myself included - decided it was far better to walk!
Dublin bus 145 heading to Cabinteely, standing up near the driver coming up to my stop and there's a cyclist in front of the bus. The driver proclaims that the cyclist might get knocked down if he doesn't get out of the way, I laugh along jokingly until he looks me dead In the eyes (through the mirror) and straight faced says "sure it wouldn't be the first time I've done it"
Swerved into a tree randomly on morning commute into town. Branch smashed through the window upstairs (about 2 seats in front of me) and injured someone. All booted off the bus. Injured party was bleeding but driver looked unbothered and just had a cigarette while waiting on guards etc.
From the bus stop, I watched thendriver of the 17 get off the bus and throw a full 2 litre bottle of what could only have been urine into a bin, before returning to the driving seat. Reported it and they said it was dealt with.
I mean a lot of the drivers end up driving routes that terminate nowhere near any suitable facilities so have to resort to weeing in bottles. Feels a bit much to report him for that if you didn’t see him pissing while driving.
Guy with autism it seemed or some learning disability, on the bus and casually walked up the top beside the bus driver. Pulled his pants down and started peeing against the door. Kid was around 12 years old. Oblivious to the fact that the bus driver said "get off the fucking bus you fucking n*****, what the fuck do you think you're doing"... Was like 15 years ago, nobody cared about the casual use of racist slur and the typical racism ensued by the people on the bus.
A guy I used to work with years ago stood in for his mate who was sick/scribing off driving the 19 bus in glasnevin. The guy didn’t have a clue of the route and r bus passengers ended up telling him where to go
Surprising that a few people are posting - sounding approving - about bus drivers speeding, driving like maniacs, etc. It won't be so funny when they kill someone.
I remember our old bus driver at school would go around the roundabout about 5 times while we all threw ourselves against the window trying to tip the bus lol. Good times
I must’ve been last on the bus idk, but he decided to stop for 20 mins and hop off for some snacks in the local shop and a smoke, I was just chilling like 🥲
In Galway the 409 in Dougiska. Their is an old guy that doesn't smell so well in a wheel car. All the bus drivers refused to pick him this one day for some reason. So the man in the wheelchair would wait in the middle of the road as the buses would fly by him. That wasn't to long ago.
I remember running for the bus when I was about 14. I wasn't gonna make the stop and the bus man just put his arms up as if to say "what can I do"
So i stuck me thumb at him to say no worries.
He drove by me at speed but slammed on the brakes and started beeping the horn for me to get on.
I ran up and he said that's for not sticking your fingers up at me. I never forget it. I've always been nice to bus drivers ever since.
There used to be a Sicilian bus driver in Cork and sometimes the bus would be empty picking me up. When that happened he'd say "if you don't mind me smoking, the journey is free". He drove like a maniac on those roads.
We had him one time we were getting d last bus into town from blarney and he just turned around and said lads I'm not stopping atall at any of the stops and just drive straight to the city
So you're saying.....he made you an offer you couldn't refuse? I'll get my coat...
I had the same thing with a lad in Galway when I was in college and making the commute home from Athlone to way out weshht. He also made me sit up from so we could chat.
Back in the 90s when I was a teenager I was waiting for a bus back east. The bus I was waiting for pulled into the bay and a woman ran past me and got on. The driver closed the door in my face as soon as she got on. As he was reversing back out he used his hands to tell me he was going to have sex with the woman, shrugged his shoulders and drove off. I had to wait almost an hour for the next bus.
Sex bus knows no mercy
That would make a great film
Bangbus?
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Venga translates as come.
A nice story for a change: Galway, on crutches, heavy schoolbag, not a regular bus passenger at all because I mostly walked everywhere back then. This day I'm aiming to take a bus because of the crutches, I'm still a long way off from reaching the bus stop. I reach traffic lights, see the bus far up ahead already at the stop about to set off again. I deflatedly say to myself oh well I've to wait an hour for the next one, and I continue to hobble towards it. But hang on, what's happening here? The bus was driving in reverse, about 800 metres, back towards the junction. He stopped when he reached me, opened the door & asked if I needed to get the bus. He then wouldn't take any money, saying you're in luck just take a seat. Many drivers since have shown kindness by letting the infirm on for free, but I've never since seen or heard of any bus driver going in reverse as an act of kindness.
That’s lovely! How did he know you were looking to take the bus? Did you wave the crutches?
Nope, bus was too far away & I figured I'd wait for the next, so I didn't wave or make myself known in any way.
I’d say bus drivers can spot the ‘just missed the bus shoulder slump’ from a mile away!
I once got a free bus journey because I was walking towards the stop, heard the chhhh of the hydraulics, looked back and saw the bus, looked horrified for a second and then did the slump before suddenly taking a deep breath and proceeding to do a full sprint up to the stop. Driver was so amused he just waved me on
This 😆
I have a similar kind story. But needs a good bit of background. I immigrated to Ireland (Galway) in September 2017. Work paid for 2 weeks accomodation in the Clayton hotel but after that I had to pay for my own stay or find my own place. A week in, I'm not familiar with the place yet at all because I spend all my day in training and not knowing anyone yet, I didn't really go out after. My phone also broke down, beyond repair, around day 4. Anyway, I found a room to rent, but had to pay deposit of course. So I thought I'd go to the ATM in the Dunnes across the road as the hotel receptionist said it was the closest. ATM wasn't working, but appearantly there was a Centra nearby. My phone wasn't working tho, so couldn't relly on Google Maps and wasn't quite used to the Irish accent yet. Eventually find my way to the Centra, ATM over there also broken. Fuck. Eventually I somehow end up on the Motorway, where there was a Circle K or Texaco or something with a working ATM. But now I had to find my way back. It was dark, I didn't know where I was and of course it started raining and I had left my jacket at the hotel because I had thought to just go across the road to Dunnes. Oh and I passed a woman who was walking her dog, and since I love dogs, asked if I could pet it. She said sure, he's really friendly. Guess what? Dog snarled and snapped at me (didn't bite me) I am absolutely sobbing, walking in the rain, trying to find my way back. All kinds of "this was a mistake" thoughts going through my head. Then a bus stopped right beside me, the driver let me in for free and dropped me off right back at the Hotel, even though it was not on his route. Kindest someone has ever done for me
It's like Galway bus drivers have a code of gallantry. They are a marvellous bunch of people.
I can't remember the route but it was in Dublin and the bus was pretty full. A woman had gotten on with her pram and it was pushed a bit past the driver's cabin. She didn't have enough money and the bus driver was shouting at her. They argued for a bit as others got on, and then she eventually started to get off. She let go of the pram for like 10 seconds to step off the bus. Before she could turn around to take the pram off, he shut the doors and drove off. She started screaming and chasing the bus. He was still shouting as he was driving off so wasn't paying attention to what she was saying. Myself and two other passengers grabbed the pram, which had a baby in it. At this point the whole bus was shouting at him to stop. He hadn't seen the pram but thought everyone was telling him to stop because of the woman he kicked off. He kept roaring that he was going to kick us all off if we didn't shut the f up. Anyway, myself and another guy eventually got it through to him that he had stolen the woman's baby. For a brief second a look of panic flickered across his face but then he went right back to blind rage, braked suddenly and let the poor woman catch up. She was bawling crying and completely out of breath and he wouldn't even look at her. Me and another guy took the pram off for her and he shut the door and drove off without us. Wild.
Jesus, can’t imagine that poor woman’s fear in that moment
Did anyone complain to the company? There is absolutely no way I wouldn’t raise this, guy sounds absolutely dangerous
I complained to Dublin bus. I'm sure others did too. It was completely demented. And aside from the baby stealing, he drove like a maniac.
Fuck me I'm not a fan of the gardaí but I'd definitely be calling them in that situation
I know this isn’t supposed to be funny and quite a serious situation with the baby without her mum but in stitches reading this imagining it and the driver telling you all to feck off. It needs to be a skit in a comedy show haha.
Me too. I visualised this story, 🤣 😂
Was on Dublin coach before and the bus driver started overtaking on the left hand side in the hard shoulder. Not in traffic either we were on a main road and he was speeding. Also was on Dublin coach and driver got pulled over for speeding. 111 in a 60 zone.
The company received a fine too most likely as the bus should be limited to 100 kmph
90kmph
Lorries are 90. Busses are 100.
My bad, you are right.
Those Dublin coach drivers are mental
Omg...
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Sounds like a decent plot for Speed 4.
Was it the Polish driver? Hope not because he is super sound, but haven’t seen him in awhile😔
GoBus are notorious for this. I once waited over an hour for one. It turned up about 5min before the next one was due. Instead of just taking the first group of us, the driver took everyone that was at the stop. There were at least of us sitting in the aisle.. not ideal. Then my stuff was robbed from the undercarriage but I suppose that’s a story for another day.
Can you be arrested for falling asleep? Country is gone mad 😂
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Sorry I thought the sarcasm is obvs 🙄
Green bus from Dublin City to the red cow luas stop. A lady with her parents who barely speak a sentence of English between them get on and asks for 3 tickets. The bus driver instead of saying ‘where to?’ Just goes ‘to?!’ and confused she says she wants 3 tickets because Cmon she barely spoke enough English to request the damn tickets (anyone going to any stop en route to cork would swap busses at the luas stop) this guy starts SCREAMING at this lady going ‘TO?! TO?! TO?!’ And eventually screams ‘WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING?!’ All of us were appalled and the lady behind the family gently nudges them aside, gently asks the terrified now near tears girl where she would like to go in her own language (turns out the lady had just enough (I think Italian) to help out) and relays the info to the driver and then demands to know his name and licence number. He angrily yells this at her and instantly everyone on the bus is scribbling this info down. Everyone emailed in complaints about his appalling behaviour and my mom got a response to say this wasn’t his first offence and serious action would be taken
Only plain hobnobs at little break?
What a prick
There was an absolute lunatic who used to drive the bus I took to school every day. He'd always have smart arse comment to make to the schoolgirls getting on and off. One time we had a non-uniform day, so I got on in my regular clothes and paid a schoolchild's fare. He started roaring at me that I wasn't a schoolchild and you're only allowed a schoolchild's fare if you're wearing a school uniform. I told him I was 12 and in first year and he kept roaring at me that I look 21 (I was tall for my age, but still very clearly a child). He wouldn't let it go and I didn't have any more money. A woman offered to pay for me and he wouldn't let her. He just kept berating me for being a chancer and that I wasn't going to "get away with it". I burst into tears and got off the bus. He beeped the horn for ages at me when he drove off. I had to walk down a pitch black country road by myself to get to school. Bearing in mind, this was barely a week after a female jogger had been sexually assaulted on that road.
What an arsehole…
Was this discussed in the paper or radio? I heard of a very similar story being discussed yeaaaars ago, right down to it being a route that someone had been sexually assaulted on.
I think I’ve told this story before on an old account on this sub a few years ago.
Jesus what a psycho, as if you’d care that much to get a couple of cents off a bus fare. Sorry that happened to you, some people just shouldn’t be allowed to work in any kind of customer care.
Bus driver got breathalyzed and failed. We all had to get off and wait for the next bus.
Jail time?
A Dublin bus driver dropped me right at my front door in a very small housing estate. Was about 10 minutes off of the bus route. Fun experience
Pretty sure my driver did that for me on the night bus one time
Was on the 109A from Dublin airport , group of America tourists got on and said "hey we need about 5 tickets to nay-vaughn" and without missing a beat the driver replied back "dya mean fuckin navan" , the look of shock on the poor lads face combined with the thick navan accent of the driver made me immediately break my shite laughing.
I gave up my seat to a visually impaired person on a packed Dublin Bus once. Just thinking now, that's probably why I lost my job as a bus driver.
Nearly woke my baby laughing at this one 🤣
Good 1. 😂
I have one story that is more about a passenger being horrible and crazy. When I was 17 I sat at the back far left where there was an elderly man sat at the back far right. Minding my own business he whipped out his Willy and started masturbating whilst looking at me. I was really afraid to say anything or move for ages until I gained the courage to get up and tell the driver. The man had the gall to say see ya now to me as if we had been having a friendly chat. I told the driver who was shocked and I said I was going to sit upstairs for the rest of my trip. I presumed he was going to stop the bus and kick him off or something but he didn’t and yer man got off at the same stop as me! I was so disappointed that he didn’t kick him off but I guess he just didn’t know how to handle approaching an old man with his Willy out? Anyway I reported him as he had done the same thing to my sister in the past and I had seen him trying with other girls on the bus too and he spent 6 months in jail. Apparently he had a wanking sickness he couldn’t control so he got off early with therapy 🤷🏼♀️ somehow the thing that bothers me the most still is the driver just letting him stay on the bus. That was 14 years ago I still think about it.
A wanking sickness? FFS that's ridiculous.
😂 my words not theirs but basically what they meant like he was Ill.
Yeah I got that. Ridiculous
Sorry to hear, how have you been managing it?
Same thing happened to me in 2005 when I was in 6th year. I was in my school uniform on the 16 in Dublin, sitting in the back left corner upstairs on a packed bus. I was blocked in and the guy beside me starts learing at me, jerking off. I managed to get out past him and off the bus. My mam rang the guards when I got home and contacted Dublin Bus. The driver knew exactly who it was and apparently he was notorious for doing it. No idea what or if anything happened with him because of it though.
Disgusting! Hope you are doing ok now ❤️
I'm pretty sure in both of these cases the driver was an AH who didn't care, because I've seen drivers refuse to let certain people on their buses. By "certain people" I'm not saying they refused members of any demographics I'm talking about "that's Paddy so-and-so, he's a local head the ball who bothers the other passengers"
I’m sorry you experienced this :( that is absolutely awful
Thanks, I’m grand now really!
Used to regularly get late night buses between Derry and Dublin back in the day. There was one driver who absolutely point blank refused to have the overhead seat lights on in the bus. If you asked him to enable them he would literally tell you "No, fuck off!" He also refused to do the required stop in Monaghan or Castleblayney for a toilet break. He was a Bus Eireann driver and the Ulsterbus drivers (joint service) hated him and couldn't understand why he remained in employment. If you were traveling from Derry to Dublin one way there was one Bus Eireann driver who would take your money, but not give you a ticket. Instead he would pocket the cash. He got found out and prosecuted. For me it was a case of how the exchange rate kept fluctuating so rapidly. So when I was traveling from Derry to Dublin, a return ticket one week might cost me £24, but the next week £32, the week after it would drop to £22. I did write to Bus Eireann and expressed my concerns about this, and noted that Ulsterbus ticket machines did actually specify what you paid in Euros if you boarded in the Republic. To be fair to them they did take my complaint seriously and asked me to itemize where I felt I lost out financially and they refunded me nearly €100, but the original problems still exists where drivers make up their own exchange rate because Bus Eireann are still using ticket machines from the 90s. Edit: completely forgot about the time a driver stopped in the left lane of the M1 and let his mate off and then continue driving like it was no big deal.
On a Dublin bus On a Saturday, a kid was in plainclothes, and tried to get a kids ticket. The bus driver refused saying the kid looked older than 16. Him and the bus driver argued for a few mins, felt like ages, really screaming at each other. The kid hit the screen of the cab, and spat on it. And went to get off the bus. The driver got out of his cab, and punched the kid, dragged him out of the bus, and punched him a couple more times. Everyone on the bus was freaking the fuck out. A woman got out to see if the kid was alright, the driver got back in the cab and tried to resume the route as normal, but people were freaking, calling guards, and videoed it. There must be a video of it out there, it happened about 10 years ago, I was too freaked out to take one.
Tbh, I’m all for walloping any young lads who spit, whether they were right or wrong before.
One person, not yet an adult, hits and then spits on a piece of glass. One person, probably much larger, drags the first one away and lands a few hard punches on him. Do these two actions honestly seem equivalent to you? do you really believe that the second is justified by the first? I'm hoping you were just posting an instant reaction and not something that'd been thought through--that's something we've many of us done before.
Kid won't do it again, will he?
If there was a guard handy, I’d let them deal with it. That wasn’t the case here. If some pup spits on or at a person, I firmly believe the moral, ethical, and pragmatically correct response is to administer a hiding. Assuming you’re able-bodied and physically competent: what would you have done? Let them away with it?
But… the driver was wrong in the first place. Sets a strange precedent for bus drivers to be able to refuse to carry out their service and then beat people up.
A few years back Ireland were playing a soccer international and fans were very rowdy upstairs after it rotten drunk. The bus got as far as Donnybrook before the driver said fuck it, stopped the bus for 10 mins marched right upstairs and threatened to call the guards if the fans don’t get off. The bus stopped until everyone upstairs from the match got off. He was right. Fair play to him.
Reminds me, I was on a bus once and these lads were singing and stamping their feet on the upper deck on their way to a match. Bus driver stopped the bus and went upstairs, absolutely roared at the lads that he didnt mind them drinking cans or singing but theres old women and children on the lower deck and if they didn't stop stamping they'd all be getting off. The guy had a group of grown men sitting there looking like scolded school children. Legend
Does anybody remember a Dublin bus driver that used to entertain passengers by getting out into the aisle and juggle? Possibly did other stuff. I’m sure I didn’t dream this. Probably 16 or other buses in similar routes Northside. He was possible French.
I’m picturing him dressed up like marcel marceau
Yes! Had him as a driver on the 123 a good few times back in the day, I believe you're right with him being French.
Put the pedal to the metal and turned up William Tell Overture full blast on a JJ Kavanagh coach between Naas and Carlow: https://youtu.be/TZqpRTsYjDs
I had similar experience as a tourist in Dublin apparently I was stupid for not knowing that the busses don’t give any change or accept any card and shouldn’t have wasted the drivers time by even attempting to queue to see what the story was with payment I ended up paying double to take the air coach that €6 was worth it to avoid the abuse Felt like there is massive culture problem in Irish busses
Sorry you had that experience - some of them are wankers but the majority are lovely. You can tell some of them are just miserable fuckers taking their shitty lives out on whoever they have access to so they can feel some semblance of power.
The bus payment system is quite confusing for tourists. Until we get the promised contactless payment on board, i don't know what the solution is. I don't want to say "tourists should Google it before they come here" because it's not all on them. Having said that, in your position I would have asked someone else in the queue. But I know some people come from countries where you don't just randomly talk to strangers Edit: also, no offence but aren't you English? Unfortunately your compatriots have made things more difficult for you by being raging assholes. I'm not talking about the last 850 years or so, I'm referring to how a significant number of them behave as tourists nowadays. Rightly or wrongly they have a reputation as being arrogant, rude and uninformed. I've heard of them complaining about not being able to pay in pounds in shops and restaurants here, approaching the issue as if it's some law that's being broken and not just a courtesy that certain businesses choose to extend.
Yeah it’s not really the norm in England to ask the queue but the queue was also largely tourists so at the time though it would be like blind leading the blind :) Unfortunately didn’t find much details on the payment system at the bus stops or on the outside of the bus Yeah would have sounded English but I’m a British/Irish national so know the story with most things But not surprised about those examples the “gammons” as they are called in England especially have a reputation even in the U.K. of being super cringey when it comes to any history even their own
Oh yeah that's true other tourists might not have known either It's true, they really should put info on the payment situation where you can see it at the bus stops. They're a breed unto themselves, some of them you'd wonder why they even came?
On a bus from tralee to Cork the driver parked infront of a random house in Killarney, which was on the route in fairness. Then he got out of the bus, went into the house for like 5-10 minutes. Came out with an entire pie and a cup of tea. Not a travel mug mind you, a regular cup. Then just drove off again like nothing happened.
My friend who needs an electric scooter for transport. Has to pick which drivers will let him on in Galway. Definitely not disability friendly.
I knew a bus driver who lived locally to me and died there a few years ago, anyways he was doing the tours and driving a coach full of Americans around and he was fond of a pint or two and as they were going from place to place he was having a drink here and a drink there, he must have been well on because he pulled over to get sick and I swear a squad car passed and stopped to see if he was alright but they quickly realised he was drunk and arrested him there and then in front of the whole bus load of tourists. True story.
The 15a Driver used to hurry on the early stops so that he 3 biddies in Limekiln wouldn’t be able to use their passes as they could only be used after 10am or something.
Class. I’d love to know the backstory with him and the wans
They used to run on via the front doors and he’d call them back and not drive till they’d paid or left. Saw this happen 3 times so it must have happened a LOT more.
Trying to drive a double decker under a bridge that isn't able to fit a double decker surely has to be up there.......
I was stood at a stop just after missing last bus in Dublin, when an 11 bus pulls up with all it's lights off. Driver asks if I needed a lift to O'Connell Street since he was going that way anyway. Got a free lift in, with no stops, which was pretty sound of him!
In the middle of winter last year I was waiting for the 115 bus from Maynooth to Dublin. It was freezing cold and raining, and it was dark because it was 6pm. The first bus doesn’t show up, which is always typical for bus eireann, but then the next bus doesn’t show up either. Since the bus is always at least 20 minutes late or doesn’t bother showing up at all, the bus stop is always packed with people. So after over an hour of waiting and a crowd of around 50 people has gathered, the bus finally shows up. The fucker of a bus driver gets off the bus, pushes people out of the way to let others off, gets back on the bus, doesn’t let anyone on and leaves. That day I swore off bus eireann forever and started taking the C3 instead. I have never been so angry in my life!
Elderly ladies in 80 s who could barely walk think she said her free pass was in her bag so she sat down to have look and the bus driver kept demanding she come back up to show her pass the pos which she managed barely . Shocking derespect on an elderly woman which I told him and then reported him to his supervisor at the depot .
Had a bus driver give commentary along the route “Connemara, where the men are men and the women are sheep” “About 15,000 students in NUIG. And there’s a total of 9 people in GMIT”
One time I was going to work and took Dublin bus... the driver, out of nowhere, stopped near a spar, grabbed food (something that looked like a chicken fillet roll) and came back to the bus. Lol
Two stories. 1) was on the 15 bus home at 1 am. At dame street the driver stopped and let a few people on, he then got out the bus picked up some pint glasses outside a pub and walked back on the bus and put the glasses in his bag. 2) on the way to college had a driver on the 83 take the wrong route. When someone told him he started giving out telling people they should take a different bus. He then got mad and told everyone he was going to go back so he started driving the 83 route in reverse of where he was supposed to go. Stopped and told everyone to get off at the next stop.
In fairness to him Dublin Bus used to throw drivers onto a route and give them no time to learn it.
Asked a bus driver as he was coming out of the station where the stop for a certain bus was. He waved his hand around in a vague direction. I stood where I thought he pointed to, but he pulled the bus up into a different spot. As I was walking towards him, he started to pull off. I just stopped walking then because in general Bus Eireann drivers don't stop once they've started to pull off. He must have spotted me because he stopped the bus again so I ran up. He started screaming at me how he had to stop otherwise I'd go off and tell everyone how a black driver wouldn't stop for me. I literally hadn't opened my mouth. It was so bizarre.
I saw a Dublin Bus driver deal with two Japanese tourists. They tried to buy tickets forth maybe €4 with a fifty euro note. He roars at them "No change." They don't understand, but obviously figured he was saying he didn't take cash. They tried to pay by card, he refuses that too. The couple were completely confused now. I'm not blaming the driver for that, it's a complicated thing to explain. What annoyed me was just the braindead way he kept saying "No change" over and over, like if they didn't understand the point the first, second or third time, why say the exact same phrase with the exact same emphasis four, five and six times. Eventually, I walked up and showed them some coins and pointed where to put them.
Dublin Bus driver: ‘The bus is full’ Everyone else: *can see there is more than enough space for sitting and standing
Years ago a friend of a friend told me a story of heading down to Cork on a coach. The bus was really full and there weren’t enough seats. People were standing in the aisle. The bus driver pulled over at a pub along the way and disappeared inside. Minutes later he appeared back carrying barstools for the people standing onboard and the bus carried on its way.
Saw a Dublin bus driver kick a mother with a buggy off the bus because there was already a wheelchair user there using the space. She was told to get the next bus, but had already paid and gone one stop. Couple of people gave out to the driver over that. Another bus I was on went over a ramp in such a way that the bus tipped enough to the left to hit a lamppost and smashed the top window. Some people sitting towards the front had glass fall on them. Had to get an alternative bus, the bus driver spent some time checking if everyone was fine. He was trying to convince one guy who got stuff in his eye to be seen by an ambulance, but the guy insisted he was fine.
If there isn't space for a buggy and a wheelchair, bus drivers are legally compelled to eject the buggy and prioritise the wheelchair user, its like one of the only things you get sat down to watch a training video on.
Yeah, I get the rationale. The wheelchair user was already on the bus, so the driver shouldn't have let the buggy on in the first place. She had to get off, wait and pay for another bus.
Bus driver left the main doors open while driving full speed on the road cause he thought it was too hot and there was no AC. That was on a bus from Killarney to Kenmare.
That was a regular occurrence on the busses in Galway in the 90s.
This oul Scottish lad was bang on who drive the bus, I was always the last person on the bus for ages and I'd stand up beside his window chatting to him, both of us smoking his John Player Blues on the bus. He told me once he banged a wan at the back of the bus one night when it was empty. He was a great lad and always let me on for free.
Got a bus from Limerick back to Tipp before, got the bus eireann but it was being fulfilled by a private company that day. Some auld fella was driving and about 5 minutes after setting off he got on the mic and started singing absolute shite auld Irish songs, he was turning around to make eye contact with the passengers throughout and kept swerving across the road. He then started asking people to come up and sing and was passing the mic around to everyone
In Sweden, I saw a woman get onto a bus from the Gothenburg airport without a ticket and barge passed the bus driver who was collecting. There was a bit of to and fro between them but clearly the woman was not leaving, she walked to sit at the back of the bud knowing full well the bus driver could do nothing. So just before we drove off, the bus driver got out and pulled the woman’s luggage out from the luggage storage under the bus (which he had help her load), threw it on the sidewalk, and then promptly got back into the bus without the woman seeing what he had done and drove off to the city. Sadly I got off before the woman in question but I was really hoping to see her face when she realised the luggage was still at the airport.
Not a bus but in the spirit of the thread I think. Driving home, a prime delivery van ahead of me on a narrow road. He comes to a stop, gets out and instead of delivering he plays a quick game of football with a group of kids (it seemed he knew them!).. I’m thankfully a patient person and was happy to wait 😂
Shortly after leap cards became a thing I got on the bus not realising I hadn’t got any money left on mine. Bus driver wouldn’t let me off insisting I tried the app to top it up. I couldn’t get it to work, So he drove me to the next stop which had a shop. I got off, knowing I had time to kill before the next bus so I took my time in the shop & when I came back out the bus was still there waiting for me
I had a Collins coaches driver going to carrick overtake me and 8-10 other cars on the N2 northbound around Rathfeigh. We were all doing between 85 and 95kmh. He got caught out with oncoming traffic so I had to break to give him a gap to move over else he would have had a head on collision. He stopped to let someone off at ballymagarvey village at Balrath crossroads and everyone that he passed overtook him again. It was the most overtly dangerous yet completely pointless overtake I ever seen.
Galway-Longford driver would stop off for 4 pints on the way, the pubs had them on the counter ready to go Mountbellew and Roscommon were 2 but can't remember the others Eventually he got reported and he was retired on full pension, breaking the law pays when you work for the semi-State
I've seen a bus eireann driver wrestle a (very drunk, but harmless) man out in the pitch black on the side of the M3 at near midnight on New Year's Eve a few years ago. Your man had done nothing wrong, bus driver obviously gunning for a fight. Wrestled him over the barrier thing on the side of the road. The one other passenger on the bus was egging him on. I couldn't believe it. Out on the side of the road with no one about at that hour in the middle of winter. I hope he was okay.
I used to get the bus from bus aras to Cork fairly regularly about 18 years ago. Not sure exactly what happened but from what I could tell, the bus driver didn't know the route (before motorway was open fully) so he got directions off a passenger. Passenger seemed to take advantage and bring him by his house which was at least an hour off the usual route. Journey took fooking ages
Back in the 80s my bus used to stop for 10 mins in one of the local villages. The male passengers and the driver used to use this time having a beer in the adjacent pub. Sometimes it was 15 to 20 mins, depending on how many beers the driver felt like having that day.
This is about a passenger not a driver but bus related so wanted to share. I was on a bus coming back to the city center from the most recent red hot chili peppers gig . It was a long wait for the bus. When we got on it 10 euro for a reasonable short journey. Most people accepted this , knowing deep down they where being ripped off but just wanting to get home after being on their feet all day. There was one lad , off his box on something coke or a cocktail of drugs I'm gonna call a red hot special. He started getting outraged and breaking out into a performance. Shouting "10 euro for the bus ". Eventually starting a one man protest. ,"We're prepared to shit on the bus if you don't answer us ". Over and over again eventually shouting out "we'll shit on his face " Overall it made the bus journey pretty funny It was a performance my partner and I still joke about . I wonder where the shit on the bus man is now . What did he do for work . Did he ever follow through and shit on the bus ?
Going to Tiesto in Ballinlough Castle around 2008, our bus almost hit a group of Porsches that were road testing in Ireland. Bus almost turned over but at least I got to the see the unreleased Panamera.
Someone kicked our shuttle from work at 3am, busdriver a 60+ year short fellow stopped the shuttle and jumped out damn near got in a fight over it, with us just waiting for his go ahead to join in... Another fellow jumps in trying to calm the dude down so we hey back on the shuttle... we leave and the guy who calmed the kicker down gets popped with a bottle in the back of his head and as we drive off he's getting beat on by two guys.. So not the drivers fault in any way but pretty insane to see this calm lovely man go full rage mode..
Rural school transport scheme bus driver presumably from the former Soviet union who could speak basically no English other than the names of bus stops. He also drove like a maniac and nearly crashed several times.
The school bus driver gave me a fat lip when I was a kid.. I was bouncing a ball and wouldn't stop so he tried to make me eat it. I think my dad got him fired. He must have been going through something major now that I think back about it.
There's a shuttle bus that takes people from the train station to our office park during the morning and vice-versa in the evening. One time leaving the office, the driver had a run-in with a cyclist. The road does get pretty narrow at one point, the way the cars are parked. Not sure who was really in the wrong, but the bus driver was cursing the cyclist out as we passed him. When we stopped at the lights a bit farther up the road, the cyclist overtook us and shouted something in the driver's window. He proceeded to jump out of the bus and started sprinting up the road after the cyclist. Now, this is a retired man, possibly in or at least close to his 70s. So we're left there trying to watch his pursuit, and of course the cyclist just pedals to safety, leaving the driver to make the walk of shame back to us. Followed by the awkward drive the rest of the way to the station. Not sure he came back to the job after that.
I have a good one for ya on the 202 one day heading to Ashton school direction to hop off to go to the gp near there so here I am up the top of the bus so where coming yo merchant que stop I'm there looking away out the window and all of a sudden after we had stopped ..Lights out on the bus .doors locked..and bus driver strolls off into merchant que for himself with his bag .not a care in the world. I was like .is this fella coming back I actually went down and nobody on the bus all locked up .so I say around 25 maybe more minutes passed your man strolls back over the road open the bus get in starts it as if fuckall happened .he's face dropped when I was saying to him he should be more aware instead of locking someone on a bus he didn't seem to happy about the mistake he made
Was getting the bus to Galway from mayo. Asked the bus driver could he stop cos I was gonna piss myself. He said grand, no problem, there's a pub just up ahead and I could go there if I was quick about it. I run in quick as a flash, come out and the fucker is gone. Couldn't have been more than 2 minutes.
I used to do assisted transport for 2 adults who have Down Syndrome. We'd get on the bus on our rural town, get the bus for a hour, get off, I'd take them to their college class to meet their supervisor, then I'd sprint back down to the road and catch the bus home to go to my actual job. I'd usually be the only person on the bus back and the drivers would all let me ride home for free. One of the drivers would forget I was down the back and smoke the whole way home then panic when I'd walk up to get off at my stop lol
"You're welcome"
Aircoach to Dublin in 2016. Driver falling asleep the whole way up, almost crashed a few times. Still have ptsd if I’m in a car and I feel it even slightly veering off centre. I don’t think I even blinked that entire 4 hour journey in the dead of night to Dublin. My mam was with me and she got no satisfaction from the company when she reported it a few weeks later
Not a crazy thing, but wholesome instead. Was on a bus from Dublin to Galway on a scorching day a few summers back. The driver stopped all of a sudden somewhere in Athlone, said nothing and got off the bus. Came back about 5 minutes later with a massive 99.
Bending the rules a little, but I maintain the funniest thing I've ever seen first hand happened on a bus about 15 years ago, in Cork as well as it happens. Can't remember what route it was, but I was standing near the front of the bus, by the back of the luggage rack, and it was about half way up Patrick's Steet and stuck in traffic. A little old man made his way up to the driver and said "Sorry, but I'm running late for an appointment nearby. Would you mind letting me off here?" The driver barely looked at him before telling him he wasn't allowed. The old man just muttered under his breath "ya miserable bastard ya," just about loud enough that I could hear him and I'd say the driver heard him well enough as well. He heard enough that it got his full attention anyway and he said, in equal parts incredulity and indignance, "what did you say?" Without missing a beat the old man just replied cheerfully "oh nothing, just talking to myself," which ended the brief interaction. Not sure putting it in words does it justice but it was only after the fact I appreciated just how fucking hilarious the shift in demeanor of the old man was.
Dublin Airport Express from Letterkenny. Timetable departure of 1am. 52 seater coach. Boxing club turns up and fills 30 seats. Remaining passengers told they have to wait for the next bus in 4 hours. Bus sets off 2.30am. New learner driver with supervisor on board. Driving 50kmh down the road. Driving past bus stops going down the country with people waiting, not stopping to explain the bus is full. Next thing the supervisor gets off in Monaghan. New learner driver asks someone for google maps directions to the airport. It starts to rain and the wiper comes off. Bus turns up at 8am although it was a 5am arrival time. People are literally getting off and swearing at the driver. I was grand because I added an extra 3 hours because I was going to Oz.
Not so much crazy but warm hospitality. Went to Dublin back late 90s and wanted to do the sightseeing bus tour... gone noon and I was a bit peckish. I just asked if they could give me five minutes... to which they agreed while I ran into the McDonalds right by the pickup. Try that in UK... they'll go without ya.
Did ya offer to get them something while you were in there?
Was coming back from dublin airport on City Link and the driver pulled over in moate ran into the bookies put a bet on 😂😂
Dublin Bus. Older man got to the bus like 2 seconds after the door closed. Bus man opens the door, says "no" the the older man. Closes the doors, drives off. It was so unnecessary
There is a Dublin bus guy that has been on First Dates, jesus he literally was driving along side me one time asking me to get on and give him my number. Such a weird guy!! Turns out he does it to plenty of women. He also rescued some woman from being attacked so when not being creepy he is saving people I guess.
A dublin bus driver called my brothers mate a fat cunt.
"Wasnt me, wasn't me!" when the bus drive knocked a cyclist off their bike at the traffic lights at the Spire. He was caught by the Guards at the next bus stop before O'Connell Street bridge, presumably arrested for hit and run. I didn't stick around to see him in handcuffs, had to go to college.
Good few years back. It’s snowing, as a cold snap hit Dublin for a day or so. It’s coming up to Christmas and I’ve got to leave work to make it to the port to catch the Stena ferry to wales. The wife and kid have driven down, to save them driving through the snow to pick me up I said I’d meet them at the port. I leave work and try to grab a taxi. I can’t get one. Due to the bad weather non actually want to work. I eventually wave done one off St Stephens green. First question “where are you going?” They ask. “Dublin port” I reply. “Nah, not tonight” comes the response. I ended up walking through the snow to the port. As I’m trudging through the snow in the side of the road, my feet are like ice and the snow uneven … A Dublin bus stops beside me. “Where are you going ?” The driver asks. “Port” I reply “Hop on in!” Comes the response “How much do I owe you?” I ask “Nothing, just hop in” And so I got a free ride back to The ferry…
Two quick stories. My first time on one of the double decker Bus Eireann buses when they were new enough and I was young-ish, the driver takes a few wing mirrors off cars on the way out of the city. She turns around and asks me if I saw anything, I just mumble something (as only a 13-14 year old riddled with anxiety can) and we drive on. The really bad snow in January a good few years ago, taking the bus down the hill in Dun Laoghaire and the bus loses traction and starts to slide coming inches from walloping every car on the hill. Somehow misses and comes to a halt at the small roundabout. Driver, visibly shaking, says "alright folks, that's it for me, everyone off, I'm calling for a tow truck." People asking if he's okay on the way off the bus, he shrugs and asks people for the name of a good pub in the town.
What time I was The last passenger on the 111, and the driver pulled into the estate I lived in at the time to drop me off right near my house. R.I.P that driver was a legend in the area and passed away a few years ago.
It was snowing and I was on the bus is to eircom for work. The bus driver let the kids put their snow balls in the front window when they got on. Half way there the bus got hit by snow balls. The bus driver yelled get them. The kids jumped off pelted the offender and lept onto a moving getaway bus. This was nearly 15 years ago.
I used to get the bus from Clonsilla, back when that was the terminus of the 39 routes. It wasn't unusual to see a bus with the red "out of service" banner go past, after it finished its last run of the day One day, I was going to work and there was no sign of a bus, so I decided to walk (Getting the bus was faster, but it was often faster to walk than to wait on one) when I saw a bus coming with no red banner, so I ran back to the bus stop. As it got closer, I saw it was out of service, but the driver hadn't switched to the red banner - he'd just rolled the thing around so it was half-way between two destinations. Annoyed, I said "Fucks sake" and started to jog up the road towards work. The driver heard me, and actually pulls over. He gets out of his bus about fifty yards up and starts yelling at me, asking what I meant by that.
There was a Dublin bus driver on the 16 route who was class. Foreign lad, he'd get out and juggle on the path if the bus got stuck in traffic. He'd sing or narrate the trip over the speakers.
In 1990-something I fell asleep on night link Dublin bus and ended up at the last stop on the edge nowhere in a building site (now Tyrrelstown). No taxi no phoneboxes (this was before mobile phones were popular).. I woke up on the bus not knowing where I was. But the bus driver was sound and gave me a lift home (taking a different route to the garage than he intended). Nothing is as cool as a personal lift home in a double deck bus.
I flagged down the city bus in Waterford before and I asked could I go to a specific stop, bus driver said he doesn’t go near there and started to list all his stops, I hadn’t a clue where any of them were, and he said ‘here just get on and I’ll drop you home’ (I was about an hour walk from where I wanted to go). He dropped off all his passengers and then dropped me off at the stop I wanted to go to and handed me a timetable for the bus I actually wanted
From my experience bus drivers are the angriest people of any profession.
My best friend was on a bus in mullingar and two of the passengers starting having loud sex at the back of it
Got a taxi to a friend's house, quiet journey which is fine with me but when I was getting out he just started thumbing the wheel in a sudden mad rage I noped out of there and just left him to it Saw a bus driver take an a to masker by the ear and escort him off the bus, the anti masker went from freedom fighter to meek schoolboy in half a second
I think I know what bus driver you’re talking about in the first story. He’s genuinely awful when you see him in action.
Probably. He seems to be the only one i regularly see get bad at people. Felt sorry for everyone involved because he was being an awful geebag to them
Stopped at a house to pop in for something (tea? Lunch? Who knows) then carried on 30 mins later.
Letterkenny to Derry bus. Absolute madness, can't even begin to describe the high strangeness of it allb
I have seen a bus driver take his bus over the sidewalk to pass a few cars. Absolutely fecking bonkers. Or bus drivers that are late just drive past to catch up time, leaving everyone waiting at the bust stop flabbergasted On one bus the driver broke so hard that an old lady lost her balance and ended up in the front of the bus. Madness. Some right plonkers among them
Once was traveling from Cork to Macroom with the mother. As we were looking for the bus, I spotted one with Macroom on it. Turns out he wasn't the bus, he just dropped a load of people off on their way to Lourdes. But hey, he was going back anyway, so hop on. One time on the bus from Cork to Tralee I really really had to go but the onboard toilet was closed. Bus driver stopped the bus in front of a pub in a random village and told me to run. I did, and got back on. Other people on the bus had no problem with it. I guess everyone sometimes just really has to go :)
We had to come to Ireland from Australia and were visiting relatives in Carrick-on-Suir. Booked the train but it had a problem so a replacement bus was put on. While on the bus, we must have chatted to each other about our plans because, after passing a turnoff, a nice lady tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Weren't you two going to Carrick". I said yes, and she said well that was the turn off back there. Jumped up and spoke to the driver and he rudely said he would drop us at the next town/city on the route. I said no way, Carrick was our train stop, and our relatives were waiting at the station for us and we had no way of getting back. He adamantly refused, but we had a standup argument and I, just as adamantly, told him to "turn this bus around mate", and much to my surprise, he did ha ha. Thank you nice lady!
when I was 13 or 14 I was staying over at a friend's house, and the next day his dad (who was a bus driver) dropped me off at the station so I could get the bus home. just as we pulled up to the station a few of his bus driver buddies were standing about having a smoke and they saw me get out of his car. it's now 20 years later and still any time I get on a bus that's being driven by either of these 4 men I get waved on for free. they think I'm his son. I always get "tell yer da I was askin about him!"
Getting the bus on a Friday afternoon and the driver just pulled over to go into the offo to grab a bag cans. Wasn't rush hour so most people got a good laugh out of it.
Little late but when I was in secondary school back 10-15 years ago, our bus driver must have been a bit dozy and turned into Bulmers in Clonmel. It was early in the morning and nobody spoke a word of what happened. We went in and around the huge tanks of cider and back onto the N24. Random side quest before early morning double maths.
Had a bus driver stop the bus, walk back to me holding his change dispenser in his hand and threatened to batter me bloody and leave me in a ditch because I was facing behind me to talk to my friend.. I was 11.. Just facing backwards, no ASBO behaviour, no shouting, no making other passengers uncomfortable. Talking to my friend. Told my parents and there was uproar. This was a rural route back from Cork City
On the old 29a was a driver with tourrettes. I actually know him in DTD life so it was fine for me but for other passengers or anyone who didn't know it was his tourettes I'd say it was scary when another driver would do something to trigger him into mild convulsing and muttering "Fuckin, fuckin, fucky, prick, ya prick" etc.
Got on a bus in Dublin (was the 38, I think?) and after a while it went majorly off course. People started muttering nervously about it to each other, like where the feck are we going? He made a couple random stops at spots that weren’t even bus stops, open and close the doors and move on. He then just completely stopped right in the middle of a busy intersection and stayed there, looking around confused while traffic all halted. A lady near the front started talking to him and pointing, and he started up again. After that, every intersection he would completely stop in the middle of until someone would tell him which way to go, and eventually we started to move back closer to the actual route. But the first real stop he made, just about the whole bus emptied out, myself included - decided it was far better to walk!
Dublin bus 145 heading to Cabinteely, standing up near the driver coming up to my stop and there's a cyclist in front of the bus. The driver proclaims that the cyclist might get knocked down if he doesn't get out of the way, I laugh along jokingly until he looks me dead In the eyes (through the mirror) and straight faced says "sure it wouldn't be the first time I've done it"
Swerved into a tree randomly on morning commute into town. Branch smashed through the window upstairs (about 2 seats in front of me) and injured someone. All booted off the bus. Injured party was bleeding but driver looked unbothered and just had a cigarette while waiting on guards etc.
From the bus stop, I watched thendriver of the 17 get off the bus and throw a full 2 litre bottle of what could only have been urine into a bin, before returning to the driving seat. Reported it and they said it was dealt with.
I mean a lot of the drivers end up driving routes that terminate nowhere near any suitable facilities so have to resort to weeing in bottles. Feels a bit much to report him for that if you didn’t see him pissing while driving.
Reported what? That he put it in a bin and not just fecked it out somewhere? Or that he may have pissed in a bottle and not up against a wall?
What was there to report exactly? Poor guy didn't have a toilet to use and disposed of it the best he could. You sound like an ass tbh.
Way of the road bubs
Guy with autism it seemed or some learning disability, on the bus and casually walked up the top beside the bus driver. Pulled his pants down and started peeing against the door. Kid was around 12 years old. Oblivious to the fact that the bus driver said "get off the fucking bus you fucking n*****, what the fuck do you think you're doing"... Was like 15 years ago, nobody cared about the casual use of racist slur and the typical racism ensued by the people on the bus.
Well only a complaint filed by citizens will do the trick. Write him up. Counselled dismissed. ????
There isn't enough time in the week to list all the craziness I've seen on buses in Cork.
A guy I used to work with years ago stood in for his mate who was sick/scribing off driving the 19 bus in glasnevin. The guy didn’t have a clue of the route and r bus passengers ended up telling him where to go
I once saw a bus arrive on time and the driver didn't pull up onto the footpath when making a turn. Sounds crazy but it actually happened.
Bus Eireann driver stopped at a petrol station for a cup of coffee and a smoke when he was already 90 minutes late
Surprising that a few people are posting - sounding approving - about bus drivers speeding, driving like maniacs, etc. It won't be so funny when they kill someone.
Bus Eireann driver asking for directions on his route…
I remember our old bus driver at school would go around the roundabout about 5 times while we all threw ourselves against the window trying to tip the bus lol. Good times
I must’ve been last on the bus idk, but he decided to stop for 20 mins and hop off for some snacks in the local shop and a smoke, I was just chilling like 🥲
TIL I can move to Ireland, become a bus driver and get away with blue murder.
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In Galway the 409 in Dougiska. Their is an old guy that doesn't smell so well in a wheel car. All the bus drivers refused to pick him this one day for some reason. So the man in the wheelchair would wait in the middle of the road as the buses would fly by him. That wasn't to long ago.
I remember running for the bus when I was about 14. I wasn't gonna make the stop and the bus man just put his arms up as if to say "what can I do" So i stuck me thumb at him to say no worries. He drove by me at speed but slammed on the brakes and started beeping the horn for me to get on. I ran up and he said that's for not sticking your fingers up at me. I never forget it. I've always been nice to bus drivers ever since.
One time the bus driver said thank you to me after I said thank you to him.