Tuesday, June 22, 2010

You're not bitter and mean until you're a Cata bus driver

So today on the Cata bus I witnessed a somewhat infuriating event. (For those of you who do not know the Cata buses are a set of buses that transfer us students around campus). Now, there are two doors on the Cata, a front door on which you enter and a backdoor off which you exit.

Today, a guy dressed in what I believe was an Air Force uniform stepped onto the back exit to get onto the bus. The guy dressed in the uniform had crutches and clearly had a broken leg. The bus driver yelled at him and told him the back door was not an entrance. The guy apologized. Then the bus driver yelled at him to get off the bus. So the poor Air Force guy with his crutches and broken leg hopped off the bus and got on the line to get onto the bus the "correct way." He didn't make it on the bus because the bus was too full.

Now I understand that the bus driver must get aggravated everyday by students who are a pain in the ass and are rude and unfriendly, yadda yadda. The bus driver has to drive around all day long and deal with all us horrible, loud, obnoxious students, I get it. I really do. But COME ON. This guy wasn't trying to be an asshole. He was dressed in uniform. He had crutches!!! Really? Did he need to be kicked off the bus? I was and am still pretty upset about it, thus this blog. Am I overreacting? I don't know, I don't even know why this is bothering me so much. I just felt so bad for the poor guy.

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