Drivers constantly tell me that they’d never ride a bus because “smells” and “crazies”. I’ve commuted via bus for years, almost a decade now. Sometimes, and I mean rarely you’ll get someone who smells bad, or someone who screams but it’s by far the oddity. Most of the time you get quiet people on the bus, drinking coffee, reading a book, listening to music. There is a comraderie in it as well.

I remember times when we did a silent mime clapping for a woman who had to run to catch the bus because she made it, or learning who ride every day and keeping a wayward eye out in case you see them showing up late. You just get to know them, they aren’t friends but you just know them, even if you’ve never said hello. Something that driving would never ever give you.

People seem to have insane level of anti-social behaviour and they don’t understand the level of harm they are inflicting on themselves.