Anal-retentive bus driver!

This guy is getting on my nerves.

Here’s the deal, I get metrochecks from my employer to pay for the bulk of my transportation to and from work. I use one $30 metrocheck card plus $10.25 to purchase a 28-day bus pass every month. Theoretically, all I have to do is wave the pass at the driver and take a seat but suddenly that’s not good enough for one driver. Okay, so I had my thumb blocking the card once but now you’re demanding that I not hold it crooked when I show it to you? How fucking hard is it to read a simple card? Not only that, I’ve been on your bus every morning, five days a week, for the past six fucking months! Unless I’ve forgotten to get a new pass, I show you one every fucking morning! That pass is not going to change for two more weeks yet! How fucking hard is it to remember that a 6’2", three hundred pound white guy with a black shoulder bag is going to show you a current monthly bus pass each time he gets on? No other driver insists on a second look, why the fuck do you?

I need to do something about my plastic passholder so I can hang it from my shoulder bag again. I never got any complaints when I had it there before.

She likes you.

Well maybe the not holding it crooked thing is a bit rententive, maybe it’s so that he doesn’t have to reorient himself each time he looks at a card. Yeah, that seems a touch rough.

But other than that, it sounds like the guy just takes his job seriously as far as checking for proper payment. Maybe he is sick and tired of a lot of people getting free rides because a) they try and b) no one tries to make even the least effort to stop them.

Just take the extra half second to do everything ‘right,’ and sit back and enjoy when (and if) he kicks others off for trying to ride for free.

Great. A middle-aged male bus driver likes me.
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Well, the “6’2”, three hundred pound white guy with a black shoulder bag" part probably isn’t too hard, but he can’t quite put his finger on WHY he remembers you – oh, yeah! You’re the guy with his thumb over the card! Better take a good look at that bus pass…