One thing I see every time I ride the bus is people having problems getting out of the back door. Those two little panels on each side of the door seem to confuse people every time. These are the top 5 stories I have about people using the back door.
#5. "Last minute sprint" A guy was sitting in the very back corner of the bus. He had his ear phones in and his head was bobbing to his tunes. The bus started to fill up with people and soon people were standing all the way in the back. Oblivious to where he was, and how full the bus was, the guy tried to make his bus ride seem a little shorter. The bus slowly came to a stop, and the guy finally looked to see where he was. He grabbed his back pack and sprinted his way through the crowd to make it to the back door in time. A women was just exiting the back door so the door was going to be open. As the light above the door turned off and the back door started to close, the guy tossed his bag in front of him and dove through the open door. As we pulled away, I looked through the window and saw him lying in the snow bank. A small triumph, for a bus hero.
#4. "BACK DOOR!!!" Everyone has seen this one, and unfortunately I've seen it multiple times. But for the sake of this post I'll tell you my favourite story. A women sitting just above the back door reached up and pulled the yellow string. As the bus slowly came to a stop she made her way to the back door. She stood in front of it and the lights above it came on. She stood there and looked at the door, waiting for something to happen. As the lights turned off and the bus started to move she yelled out "BACK DOOR" The bus stopped and the lights turned on. Again she yelled out "BACK DOOR!" At this point I've come to the conclusion that she thinks the door is suppose to open for her. Thankfuly the man sitting across from the door came to this conclusion as well. He stood up and pressed the pannels for her. "Oh" is all she said as she stepped off the bus.
#3. "Punch it open" The back door can be a problem, even when you use it properly. A young man was getting off the bus, and believe it or not, he was using the back door. He held his hands gentely over the yellow strips to open the door. When they didn't open he pushed his hand a little harder, again they didn't open. Out of know where the young man clinched his fist, wound back, and punched the yellow strip (he may have also yelled fuck.) The doors calmly opened and he stepped off.
#2. "Flipper" A women waited calmly by the back door as the bus came to a stop. The lights above the back door turned on indicating that the doors were ready to be opened. She stepped up to the doors like a batter stepping up to the plate in baseball. She pulled her arms back, her hands in the air opened wide. She then began to slap the back doors repeatedly. I'd say she got in about 6 good slaps on that door before the doors opened.
#1. "Oblivious" My number one story I saw from the back door came from earlier this year. A young man was standing right beside the back door. He had his head phones in and had his back facing the back door. The bus came to a stop and a few people jumped off. I could hear his music so I knew that he probably could't hear anything. As the back door shut, it shut on his back pack. The bell rang from the back and the doors opened. Again the doors shut, and again they hit the young mans back pack. At this point someone pointed at him and let him know his back pack was in the way. But as he turned, the door tried to shut again, again his back pack got in the way. Three times the door shut on this oblivious man's back pack. And I thought it was funny.
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