Public transport, what a joke!

Today i had to get the bus home, wasn't impressed as i'm not the greatest fan of buses and todays journey confirmed this view.

Firstly while waiting for my bus an old woman asked one of the conductors when her bus was going to arrive and he told her it had already left, she replied but my bus getting in here was late so why didn't it wait for me the conductor replied quite rudely we can only hold the buses for 15 mins and your bus was late. Fair enough they can only hold buses for 15 mins to prevent more delays but it wasn't the old ladies fault her bus was late and she didn't deserve to be spoken to in that manner, especially to be told the next bus to her destination wasn't' coming until the time she was expected at her destination. She then told the conductor that she was going to have to phone to let the people who were to collect her know that she was going to be late, then off she went to find a phone. The least the conductor could of done was to let her use the phones on the premises but no, that would have just been too much effort for him.

Once my bus had arrived my friend and i queued to get on. On boarding my friend said she heard the conductor say we were going to need a mechanic, instantly we thought the bus was broken but sat down anyway, thinking surely they wouldn't let us on if it wasn't going to go anywhere.

Ten minutes later we were still waiting to depart but thought it was just because the transfer bus hadn't arrived yet. 20 minutes later, transfer bus been and gone we were then told that the bus wasn't going anywhere as it was broken but there were four spaces left on the other bus, but we would just have to change at Broxden. We obviously wanted to be one of those four but also knew that everyone would want to be too. Suddenly two girls screamed we'll take them then two other people followed. AAAA! we had missed our chance.

6.40pm, meant to be home at 7 and we still hadn't left and there didn't seem to be any signs of us going anywhere soon ,was svery annoyed, eventually we were all told to move on to another bus. After getting on the other bus the driver asked if anyone was going to Kinross, my friend and i put are hands up and the driver grunted and groaned at us. The driver wanted to by pass Kinross and go straight to Edinburgh to cut out some time for the journey, which is quite reasonable to avoid further delays but what if someone was waiting to get on the bus at Kinross and we hadn't have been on it, then he wouldn't have gone through and they would have missed there bus also, shocking!

After this journey i am even more inclined not to use the bus service in the near future as it is so unreliable and a complete joke. Whenever you have any questions they talk to you with the least amount of manners possible and look at you as if to say, are you stupid, why are you wasting my time but to be honest its what there being paid for, to provide you with pleasant service and an enjoyable journey. I have yet to experience this though.