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pyscho B67 bus driver — Brooklynian

pyscho B67 bus driver

apresvu
apresvu
edited November -1 in Park Slope
I take the B67 every morning usually about 7:25am from south slope heading north. Until about two months ago there was a very pleasant driver who would greet passengers with a "Good Morning". Hey, I'm not even looking for a greeting, but it was nice and I would return the greeting. However, the past few months have been vastly different. How do I put it, this driver absolutly refuses to recognize a passenger, he looks straight ahead, and he has that scary look in his eye. Like "don't fuck with me or I'll kill you". I've overheard other passengers call him "Mr. Personality".
Anyway, yesterday he picked me up at my stop, which is across the street from a middle school. Immediately after boarding I heard half the bus saying "back door! back door! There is no way he didn't hear them. So I turned around and yelled "back door"(there were probably ten people wanting to get off). Well this guy started to drive. Then practically everyone on the bus started yelling. He stopped the bus and screamed"You have to press the button!" What? A classic case of a power trip. Trust me anyone who's taken a ride with this nut knows who I'm talking about.

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  • em26
    em26
    If I'm driving a huge monster and have to hear people holler "back door! back door!" as if I'm doing something wrong and giving me a headache with their yelling when they know that all they have to do is press the god damn button , I'd wanna kill someone too.Especially when they see it in my crazy eyes that I don't want no one fuckin' with me.

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  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    I've seen worse. Once on the B61 on Driggs we rolled past the N7th stop and everyone jumped up and started flipping cause the driver didn't stop. Nobody pressed the yellow strip so why would she have? Oh the uproar... "WHAT ARE YOU DOING THAT'S THE L! EVERYBODY GETS OFF THERE! YOU STUPID BITCH" and so forth. I could not believe it.
  • apresvu
    apresvu
    Well what got me about the whole thing was that HE WAS AT A STOP! All he had to do was press a little button for the back door. Granted, most of those wanting to get off were going to the school( I know, I know screaming kids-it's part of the job buddy- but it included teachers)but c'mon why all the unnessary stress. Many people get off at that stop before I get on. Perhaps they just assume the back door will be opened. This guy made an issue out of nothing.
  • raw
    raw
    I was on a 3rd Avenue Brooklyn bus around 3 PM and witnessed a bus driver threatening to punch teenage girl passengers who looked terrified and seemed to be regular riders. He was definitely psycho. I called the MTA and reported him. Maybe they put him on your route.
  • flux
    flux
    I know what that driver was thinking.....RESPECT MY AUTHORITY!
  • drunken revival
    drunken revival
    so..... why again didn't you push the button?
  • apresvu
    apresvu
    10:57, you misread my post. I had just gotten ON the bus and the people in the back were yelling to get off.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Why does the driver need a special invitation to open the back door at a stop? This should be automatic.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    I've been on plenty of buses where the back door strip doesn't work, so you have to yell "back door" to get the bus driver to open it. considering that passengers are encouraged to use that door to exit a bus, it's pretty infuriating to not only have the damn thing be broken but also to be ignored by the driver. I'd be furious.
  • urbancowgirl
    urbancowgirl
    Agreed. She never said anything about not pushing a button. I've seen this happen before...someone pushes the button to get off the bus, a few people enter and exit from the front door, but the back door is never released.

    Anyone ever had the B61 driver who seems to either suffer from tourette's or just be downright crazy? He uses his little microphone to make sounds like a frog's "ribbit", or starts being a tour bus driver, gives mets scores, heckles crying babies. I was once even standing at the back door waiting for my stop when he decided to, via microphone, engage me in a long conversation. It started like, "you look like a nice mid-western girl, where are you from? Arkansas?" I get a kick out of him.
  • 1st_streeter
    1st_streeter
    UrbanCowgirl wrote: I get a kick out of him.
    I get a kick out of the Q train driver who when stopping at Atlantic Av. says "Transfer is available to the blah, blah, blah and the Looooooong Islaaaaaand Railroooooaaad."
  • brooke lynn knight
    brooke lynn knight
    I get a kick out of the N conductor who announces the stop at "Bazzabig St."

    The first time I heard it, I thought he'd made a mistake and searched my mind for what N stop begins with "B."

    Then I figured out what he was trying to say.

    Pacific St.
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