Me and the buses...again!

I don't have much luck with public transport it seems, I am forever moaning about it. But having watched tube fares go from 50p one way upto (I have no idea what it is nowdays, just I know it's not 50p) and bus fares from rise and rise from what was once 40p I think i'm entitled to have a groan about it all.

I have been getting the 173 bus for years and years, I have suffered the intense heat that comes with travelling on them. I have sat in hours worth of traffic whilst the A13 was tarted up, I have sat next to some of the oddest creatures to ever own an oyster card and as time has flown I have grown. I'm 6 foot something and my legs are rather long as you can imagine. Buses are a nightmare at the best of times to sit on, I hate doing it but sometimes I have to sit sideways to fit my legs in...and of course with that I get people giving me daggers because i'm taking up so much space.

With seats at the back of the bus (not the very back, that's the mobile music festival),the ones that are raised above the wheel I can position my knees either side of the seat in front without causing any distress to me or anyone else. Now for some unknown reason, ARRIVA have decided to put metal plates at the exact place my knees had found sanctuary! Why? I don't know!

So as if the bus journey wasn't painful enough already, I have my knees crushed into a solid metal plate just for 'fits and giggles'. I am the sort of person who will now go and write to ARRIVA asking why they have fitted them, i'm an old man at heart and the world is out to get me!

On a brighter note, I managed to catch a bus the other day that had actual (I kid you not) AIR CON! Are you woundering if i'm going to moan about it? Well of course I am! No seriously it was a breathe of fresh air (or a lungful of machine made air). It actualy blows really hard (...I'm sure you don't need this bracketed area to make a joke of that) and is rather chilly. They have fitted them under the seats where the heaters would norm be (you know, the ones they keep on all year around). As well as having these powerful cold air blowing monsters living under the seat they have removed all the heaters. I was rather impressed :)

That is all!