When you are waiting to get on the bus, look up in the window and see if
people are standing to get off. This takes zero effort. If it's one of
the busses with the colored outsides that you can't see into, at least
stand back and wait a second before you come barrelling up the steps. At
some point, you too will want to get off the bus and will expect
others to be out of your way on the steps.
If there is standing room only, you need to move all the way to the back.
You are not so special that you don't have to go back any further; people
should either squeeze past you or squish into the filled-up space between
the front door and you, at the midsection. Just move back and fill up ALL
the space on the bus, because you are wasting everyone's time.
Seats are for butts, not bags. Or your feet, or your baggyass-pants-clad
knees spread across two time zones.
For the love of all that is holy, take a freaking SHOWER and put on some
DEODORANT before you come to co-mingle with others in an enclosed vehicle.
If you're going to yak it up on your cell phone at the top of your lungs,
try to avoid sitting, ironically, directly under the "Please Keep Cell
Phone Conversations Private" sign.
Sit in the seat the way it faces.
You only need to ring the bell once. If the "Stop Requested" sign
is lit (yeah, lift your head and look at it, genius!) then the bell
rang, and the driver will stop.
Do NOT ring the bell if you're not getting off. The occasional accident
aside, this occurs too often with people who just don't pay attention,
panic, and then hit the strip.
When getting on OR off the bus, keep moving. You do not walk alone in this
world and there are other people behind you. Try to be considerate. Get
off the bus and get out of the way, don't just hop off and stand there.
Old people, disabled people, pregnant ladies, and anyone carrying packages
or a baby should be given precedence when getting on the bus and for seating.
I don't care who you are or how long you've been standing there, bitch,
have some humanity. I do it, and so should you. Kids and teenagers
trying to cut in front of other people need to be scolded by whomever happens
to be there, because obviously their ghetto mommas aren't teaching them
manners. There are many Tucsonian kids who deserve such a tongue lashing.
