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Where Are Your Bus Ride Manners?

Posted on January 27, 2007January 27, 2007 by Jolene

I’ve befriended the manager of the Sungai Petani bus station. He is this old retired army dude who sports a long beard ..and all his hair seems to go on the lower part of his face and he is pretty bald at the top. However, he is quite a nice guy.

He speaks relatively fluent English as compared to his colleagues(bus drivers, bus conductors, ticket sellers) and he likes to kid around and stuff. Your parents might ask you to stay away from him lah, but we keep our distance even though his harmless. So yeah, he gave me his number so that I can call him whenever I want him to book tickets for me in advance.

As convenient as that sounds, he is not all that reliable. We had to wait for like 1 hour because the bus that he booked for us, was full. We won’t call from him the next time already. Somemore before this we were so touched that he was damn kind to us and even wanted to buy oranges for him as a small gesture. But he is still nice lah.

Every bus ride to KL or back from KL is an adventure for me. (this time around when I go back to Sungai Petani, I’ll be boarding a bus from Malacca, hopefully it makes things different). Usually the journey takes 5 to 6 hours and today surprisingly, it was only 4 and a half hours!

But there’s always one problem or another when I take the bus. It’s never a smooth one.

Let me share with you a list of the many situations that can piss the shit out of me:-

1) Bus breakdown
2) Bus stopping too many times
3) Bus driving so slow that I can just hop off, walk for abit, take some photos and hop back in.
4) Noisy children. Who should be thrown off the bus. I’m serious. I’m a rather nice person, even you, a person with average tolerance for shit-happens-type of situations would vomit blood.
5) Blasting aircon
6) Non working aircon.
7) Bumpy bus ride.
8) Long long hours.
9) Noisy television or radio
10) Old uncle and aunties who don’t know how to use their handphones and think that just because they cannot hear themselves talk on the handphone, the person on the other line can’t hear them as well hence the need to shout so that the entire bus can hear.
11) Reclining of the seats in front of me.

And today number 11 happened.

When we went up the bus, we were horrified by how little leg space the bus had. But we thought, it’s okay lah. Since all we want is to go home right.

Then, in the seat in front of ours was this middle age uncle who was reading the papers, with his seat reclined a long way to the back. We couldn’t possibly made our way into the seats and he didn’t even bother to notice that we were standing there, waiting for him to raise his seat. We had to ASK him.

We were not that annoyed yet lah. Before we drifted off to sleep, we saw that he was reading the New Straits Time, which meant that he was English educated. It was rather odd because you seldom see old uncles reading english newspaper in Sungai Petani. Then we heard him conversing on the phone in English, just like the way you and I would speak to each other.

He was about my dad’s age and was dressed rather respectably.

However, despite us telling him a few times to not lower his seats so much, he finally got angry at us.

It happened when I told him off for the last time when he reclined his seat onto my legs and woke me up from my sleep.

I’ll put up an audioblog about how it happened. Listen.

Damn annoying. But I was really pissed at him lah because I hate it that he felt it was his RIGHTS to lower his seat onto my legs. I mean at least have the decency to feel embarrassed that you encroached into my leg space, no? Damnit.

I was shooting the third finger behind his head so many times out of anger. Lie Yuen said “This is an example of talking bad about people behind people..wahhaha”. hehe.

Well, rule number 1 when you sit on the bus: Always be aware if your chair doesn’t take up other people’s leg space. It’s called etiquette.

Secondly, a man of my father’s age, who speaks good english, who cares about the business section in the paper(Tax for Halal food reduced? At least that’s what I saw when I peeked over his shoulders when he was reading the papers)… should at least own a car right because at that age you would have gotten a decent job?

I’m not going to pull a Wee Shu Min upon myself and rant about the fact that he should be rich enough at that age to be able to afford a plane ticket back. Somemore now Air Asia so cheap.

But I would think that most middle class middle age man would own a car and would not like the hassle that only an interstate bus ride can bring. Clearly he found the bus ride to be abit of a hassle as he wasn’t too happy about the reclining of his seats right?

So he is supposedly older, educated…and yet he raised his voice at a girl young enough to be his youngest brother’s daughter.(Don’t think he is old enough to be my grandfather). Some people really don’t know their manners. No wonder so old also no car to drive lah.

I hate my bus rides. I hate my bus rides. I hate hate hate.


See what I mean? Asshole. šŸ™ and in this photo, he was in the toilet and THIS was after he raised his seat after I told him off.

14 thoughts on “Where Are Your Bus Ride Manners?”

  1. g_mas says:
    January 27, 2007 at 3:48 am

    that niamacibai will come to no good end!!! hahaha but at least u’re back in one piece. šŸ˜€

    jo: yalo.:( haha well, yeah. every bus ride is uncertain.
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  2. s!mple cheryl says:
    January 27, 2007 at 7:52 am

    I still haven’t met any old dudes that can speak in Sg Petani.wow, you seriously didnt have any leg space!

    by the way, your other 2 audio blogging was awesome! i was laughing at 6am in the morning, my mom thought i was crazy. XD

    jo: eh?? ur from sg.petani??…hahaha thanks babe. glad it made u laugh.

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  3. kahw33 says:
    January 27, 2007 at 8:06 am

    wah lau eh… like that meh.. next time when u r on ur bus ride home, bring along a few nails.. u should know what i mean..

    jo: aha..i know what u mean. and yeah, good idea!!
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  4. Jen says:
    January 27, 2007 at 10:16 am

    what an inconsiderate turd! sheesh..while he was in the toilet, you should have bribed the person sitting in front of him to lower their seats to the max and say its their right to do so as well. heheh..

    anyways, i have really short legs so my friends love sitting in front of me during bus rides coz they can recline till their noses bleed and i’ll still have enough leg-room =D

    jo: lol better still, the seats in front of him was empty at that time. shud have lowered it myself.:P 
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  5. pelf says:
    January 27, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    If I were you, I’d either tell him on the face that he was making things very uncomfortable for me (which is the easier way for both of us) or I’ll just push his seat throughout the bus-ride to make him feel uncomfortable (the rough way out).

    jo: ahhaha should have kicked and kicked right
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  6. Jason says:
    January 27, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    Another thing to do is keep on jolting / kicking the chair until he gets annoyed. When he confronts you, just saw you don’t have space for your legs to move around and you are a hyperactive child who keeps moving. šŸ˜›

    jo: ahahha…not daring enough laaa
    =

  7. Lao Chen says:
    January 27, 2007 at 9:24 pm

    This seems to show that the scholarly kind of education from schools and institutes (language one speaks, which part of the newspaper or gossip mag one reads, profession) is not the kind of education that would directly result in people of acceptable manners.

    May he die a painful death.

    jo: educated old chinesemen can sometimes be very bitchy. 
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  8. Grace says:
    January 28, 2007 at 2:28 am

    Hey.. someone who you don’t know, but reads your blog..

    I know it’s a rather angry post or something but – your audioblog so cute la šŸ˜›

    jo: hahaha.. gee…cute…..thanks;P
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  9. Alex says:
    January 28, 2007 at 6:06 am

    That fella has no manners at all.

    jo: exactly. courtesy takda.
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  10. c.ho says:
    January 28, 2007 at 10:07 am

    hemmmm.. it’s like an airplane ride.. just worse… and more often in a year.

    i’m back. bwahhahahaha..

    jo: heh, bus rides are so much worse. heyy welcome back:D
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  11. eggyoke says:
    January 28, 2007 at 6:11 pm

    yeah mah, you should rock his seat once every like 5 mins… Say, your legs are long and you got no space loh…

    jo: šŸ™‚ can’t turn back time di
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  12. Dr. Tan says:
    January 28, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    How coincidental. I was beside this proper looking young dude who had his feet on my… MY feet rest. After I told him to masturbate his toes, he left his legs wide open.

    jo: HAH, got such thing. and maybe he got turned on by the words masturbate so he left his legs wide open:P
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  13. tanya says:
    January 29, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    wa! first time hearing audioblog. u sound quite singaporean ler.. yea, not a voice i expected too! imagined it would be rougher. XD. i used to HATE people reclining their seats in airplanes i would force my knees into the seat the moment i sat down to prevent them from going down a certain level. but hey, very entertaining to listen to ur audioblogs! šŸ™‚

    jo: hahhh… malaysian and singaporean got sound differently one meh?/:P hahha what, rougher….some people said i should sounds squeakier, u said rougher..lololo. very interesting. šŸ™‚ LOL… works ar that method? hahaha.thanks, i’ll do more:D
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  14. gina says:
    January 30, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Aww.. you poor dear. =(
    That’s why it pays to be short! Hehe.. šŸ˜‰

    -Gina


    jo: yaaa..even the guys like petite women.;(

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