Sunday, 24 January 2016

Types of Passengers that a Bus Captain will be amused- Part 3.



½ naked man


It is the AM rush hour period on 20/5/2015. 

At this neighbourhood  bus stop along Woodlands Ave7; this man was running toward the bus and demanded to be allowed to board my bus. 

The smile on his face freezes, as I did not open the front door for him to board. 

He is exposing himself without fastening any button of this long sleeve shirt. I gestured to him to button his long sleeve shirt first. He got the message and immediately, buttoned just two top buttons from the neck down (to cover his two exposed nipple), I opened the door to board him. What I joke.

Durian king on board


The durian king on board; during durian session, on 20/5/2015, right after the ½ naked man incident, this pax was carrying two plastic full of stuff with him when he boarded the bus.
Initially, I did not suspect anything smelly. Once the front open is closed and the air-con system started to operate optimally, the minute, I pull off from the berth. My wonderful smell-door is working healthy and efficiently! 

At the traffic junction stop, I looked at the rear mirror to “seek out”; Who is carrying that smelly stuff with him or her? Since it is conceal under the seat, I could not pin point the targetted pax that, I need to talk too. 

I too love to eat durian. 

But today, I have duty to do; that is, no durian on board the bus. This pungent smelly stuff may offend other non-durian lover. 

I have to act fast and I stopped the bus and look backwards and raise my voice a bit with some eye contact with the pax, and said, “hi, durian is not allowed on board”. A man pax, somehow, nodded his head in agreement and I guess, he is also shy and immediate ring the bell to alight at the next bus stop ahead. What I relieve for me and the rest of pax.

The marathon talker


For 90 long minutes, from Woodlands Interchange to Jurong Point; this is the kind of pax that, it is very troubling to me. 

No matter, how hard I try to shut down my ear-door, the noise still can penetrate into my ear drum. 

This Filipina lady was seated on the left of me and directly at the back of me. Just imaging the sound of the (Tagalog, I suspected) been bombarded to your ear-drum for a non-stop 90mins. 

I guess, she might have missed her family member so much that, she need to talk and talk non-stop.

Dear pax, please have a thought for us BC, my safety driving is your safety concern too. If you wish to talk non-stop, please take a seat at the rear lah, boleh kah?.

Kissing couple


I pick up this couple of an Indian man and a Chinese woman at Admiralty bus stop. It is close to midnight and it is my second last trip for the PM Shift duty. 

The moment they tab the card, sat down at the “red” seat and started to kiss and hug each other. They assume, the rest of the pax inside the bus and I are transparent and also not forgetting that, inside the bus, there are easily 4 CCTV camera with live recording.

Not sure, what happen to them a couple of hours ago in the evening. Perhaps, they are in good romantic mood or anniversary.

Whatever, the desire or “heat” at that moment, what puzzle me is that, they continued to kiss for a short distant of just 2 bus stop and when they alighted, no  further kissing at the bus stop but just hold hands and walk off. Strange.
 

The fish monger lady


Today is 21/5/2015, in the late morning, around 1130hr, a lady, carrying two bag of NTUC’s fairprice plastic bag, was running parallel to catch the bus.

Out of concern, I slowed down the bus to dead speed so that, this lady can catch up with me at the said bus stop in front.

She was thankful to board the bus and sat at the seat concealed behind me. The moment, I closed the front door, immediately, my smell-door could pick up the fishy smell and the smell concentration is getting stronger by the seconds. 
 
To get some immediate fresh air, I opened the driver’s right side window to breathe. At that moment, I concluded that, the fishy smell are coming from the lady just boarded the bus earlier. So, I asked her, “aunty, is that fish or prawn, next time, please pack it more properly or request to have more ice”. 

And ask her, where will she be alighting. Do you know, what she said to me? 
She said, “4 stops from here, am I smelly right?; I am a fish monger in the wet market nearby.” 

Upon hearing what she just told me, I was red-faced (pei sei),and in the spirit of society and neighbourhood inclusiveness, I am a bit of remorseful by asking her the earlier questions above.
The rest of journey, I just have to accept it and opened the side right window to breathe.

LGBT


I have to admit that, I am a bit “old school” on this subject. 

After several round to exposure to this type of sexual orientation, I have overcome my initial awkward feelings to just a simple neutral feelings. 

Around late evening, as I approached a bus stop in Taman Jurong, as usual, I will look deep and hard at the bus stop to see whether anyone wishes to take my service or not.

I saw, this 2 “ L” were kissing away at the bus stand. 

They beckon for the bus and I took them to BLI (Jurong Point). Beside this Taman Jurong incident, at Marsiling Rise bus stop there is also 2 “ L”. I have studied them for a while, and now, I think, I can now tell who has more “maleness” or “femaleness” in their role as “L” couple.

The “maleness” one  will dress and have a body structure of a man and usually have a flatter chest. And I really still do not understand, they choice of seat for “L” couple, is the front seat of the bus and the “G” couple  will go straight to the back, the rear corner of the bus.
Again, fyi, there is 4-CCTV live recording in the bus cabin to capture all your actions.

Stop right here


The old woodland road, built some 50years ago; some of its bus stop bay and cutout is small to get the bus to be aligned parallel to the pavement of the bus stop stand along this very old road.

It was a Sunday morning. I stopped the bus some 5M from where, this pax is standing or waiting. The minute he came on board, he was swearing the 4LW-F* to me.

I looked at him, and asked him, what is your problem that, you need to walk a few step more?  and why are you swearing at me ?

He said he is late to work and there is no taxi on site, so because of that, he can shouted at me with F* and demanding that, I must stop the bus right in front of him. I told him, you have no right to scold me in this manner;

I immediately gave him my mobile number  to him and I told him, if next time, you are late, you can call this number, and I will get my son to drive my own car to pick him up. He was silence for the rest of journey. As he is alighting at Woodlands ICA, I kept an eye on him and he just look and walk straight to Johore.

 

Courier pax


I was travelling along near Jurong Yihua market ( in late 2014, unfortunately, my colleague with svc 187, did ran over and killed an elderly chinese man here; the body parted into 2-halve!). 

This type of pax is pretty smart.

About to reach their intended bus stop, the bell is rang. she got up from her seat, walked to the rear door opening, but did not alight, but to hand over whatever stuff with her to another person waiting at that bus stop. once done, she gait back to her seat and continued the journey. Cool.

Postman


When I was growing up, the ubiquitous red cylindrical letter box is easily noticeable.

This day, I too find it difficult to locate one when in urgent need to post a letter. 

What this man did, is very interesting; he stopped the bus in Admiralty MRT bus stop, tab is card while alighting, did a 100M sprint to the letter box and sprint back again and board the bus from the front. Because of the limitation of the fare card system (program algorithm, I suspect). When he re-tab, his card, the system will show only, “exit okay”. 

I also do not have SOP on this immediate second-fare charging; and I just let him take the bus and continue his journey to WRI  for FOC.

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