Bus Stop Humor: Even bus stops can have a funny side. Many years ago there was a Frank & Ernest comic strip that involved Bus Stops. It seems one of the
characters was fired from his job as a bus driver because he kept waiting for a Bus Stop sign to change into a Bus Go sign. Several years ago, during a heavy rain storm, a coworker of mine was riding a bus home from work. They
were approaching an intersection with severe flooding (they were traveling south in the northbound lanes).
A passenger was waiting on the bench in the shelter and wanted the bus to pull over and pick them up.
The water level around the stop was 2-3 feet deep and the passenger was standing on the bench in the shelter. Poster outside an English church at a bus stop: "Where will YOU be on the Day of Judgment?"
Scribbled below: "Still here, waiting for a bus."
Petersborough "The Daily Telegraph"
One day one of the city traffic engineers called with a question about abbreviations used by VTA to
describe the location of a bus stop. Such as FS, NS, etc. In this case he was requesting the meaning of
the abbreviation AT, he was somewhat embarrassed when informed that this abbreviation meant "at". One of my coworkers, who is involved in installing bus stops, was once approached by a citizen who
complained that he had changed the routing of a street, including building an overpass, just to delete the bus stop that they used. Santa Clara County Transit has had many stops that were unpopular with the adjacent property owner or
tenant. In one case the adjacent business, a lawyers office, actually served papers on one of the drivers forbidding him from stopping there in the future. Polly want a what? There is a pet store located next to one of VTA's bus stops in San Jose, California.
Several years after the first buses with voice enunciators, announcing the destination of the bus, were
installed on the buses there was an interesting story in the local paper. It seems that one of the parrots at the store had learned to speak and could quite clearly say "Line 22 Palo Alto". Heard this about one stop being installed on a local military base. The crew went out to install the sign and
pole. They sank the pole and a few seconds later were surrounded by a large number of people carrying
assault rifles. It seems that in sinking the pole they had accidentally cut a secured phone line and when it
was cut it set off many alarms in the security office on the base. Let this be a lesson, always get the utilities
checked before sinking a pole in the ground. In the case of this military base, the military installed all of the poles from then on. A similar event happened at another stop. In this case next to a hardware store. The crews sunk the pole
in the sidewalk and went on their way. A few days later a call was received from the owner of the store
that he had a blockage in the sewer line. It seems in sinking the pole they had hit the center of the sewer line coming out of the store. CASE OF THE PREGNANT LADY
A lady about eight months pregnant got on a bus. She noticed the man opposite her was smiling at her.
She immediately moved to another seat. This time the smile turned into a grin, so she moved again. The
man seemed more amused. When on the fourth move, the man burst out laughing, She complained to the driver and he had the man arrested.
The case came up in court. The judge asked the man (about 20) what he had to say for himself. The man replied, "Well your Honor, it was like this:
When the lady got on the bus, I couldn't help but notice her condition. She sat under a sign that said, "The Double Mint Twins are coming" and I grinned.
Then she moved and sat under a sign that said, "Slogan's Liniment will reduce the swelling" and I had to smile.
Then she placed herself under a sign that said, "William's Big Stick Did the Trick" and I could hardly contain myself.
BUT your Honor, when she moved the fourth time and sat under a sign that said, "Goodyear Rubber could have prevented this Accident...I just lost it." "CASE DISMISSED" Got a favorite funny joke or story involving a bus stop? Feel free to send it to me. |
