yourbusstop.com - luvvie's rant 5

Last week I got some good news as my job was to include training new drivers as they
learn routes. The benefit would be that I would get a slight increase in pay as I would have
extra responsibility. The way I see it is someone does all the driving whilst I sit back and
earn the money (Yess!)

Day 1

Arrive early, I have lunch prepared and a large flask of coffee as I will have plenty of time to
drink it. I go down the yard and start up the bus, sit down on the back seat whilst I await
my pupil for the week, Ray.
I catch sight of unusual car in the yard, I watch in disbelief as a man who is the size of a
small family car gets out and walks to the office. He looks like he just got out of bed so I
am not worried as he couldn't possibly be Ray. Next thing I know I am choking on my
coffee as the boss opens the door with Ray, needless to say I was wrong, however Ray is
friendly so I am hopeful of a good day.
Ray is a capable driver and friendly to the passengers if a little loud and boisterous, I am
happy as it is nearly lunchtime and I have only had to give Ray a few directions so far. We
enjoy lunch out in the countryside and Ray has told me a funny if unbelieveable story
about driving in London. Then I am taken back as Ray chucks his drink can out the
window of the bus into the middle of the lane we are parked in. It seems lunch has given
Ray a real thirst as he opens another can as we start our afternoon journey.
Things now seem to go rapidly downhill as Ray has an argument with a lady passenger
and then…..as we approach the main town at the end of our route I see a coke can hurtle
out the driver's window and bounce off the top of a passing car!

Day 2

Hopeful of a good day, we are doing the same route so even less for me to do. All is well
as Ray seems to have picked up the ticket machine quickly. We get to lunchtime today it
is in town, having had lunch I offer to drive the next journey as Ray seems a little tired. He
says "no need for that, just popping out to go to the loo", we are in the middle of town and
as I log on to the ticket machine and start boarding passengers I glimpsed in the offside
mirror only to see steaming water running under the back off the bus. The first passenger
gets on looking horrified and says "ere driver there's some bloke pissing up the back of
your bus!" Instantly I realise what has happened and all of sudden I feel very awkward as I
know it is Ray. Then I had to face the embarrassment as Ray gets on and says "sit down
Scrote" and all the passengers look at me. I wish I was invisible for the rest of the journey.

Day 3

I couldn't get a wink of sleep in fear of what might happen today, so I go to see the boss
to tell him that even I "the mighty scrote" have to concede that Ray is untrainable.
However my blushes are saved when I see the daily roster and discover I am required to
cover another absence so Ray will be on his own today. I feel sorry for the passengers on
his bus today.

Thought of the day

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.