LN boards bus with girlfriend. “Does this bus go to the airport?”
BusDriver (who has been asked this question umpty-gazillion times already today decides to play dumb), “I dunno”.
LN already has his smartphone out, and starts getting stroppy with the bus driver, points to his phone. “Whaddya mean YOU DON’T KNOW. LOOK, LOOK HERE!!!” (wildly pointing at phone).
Passengers are starting to bank up behind LN and his girlfriend.
BusDriver, realising she has a somewhat crazy bastard onboard says, “Dude, gimme your tickets and move into the bus please”
LN by this time has turned a glorious shade of purple with rage at the ‘perceived’ insult to his girlfriend, heads towards the back of the bus (wihout showing a ticket) and is then asked to leave from the FRONT door so the Bus Driver can be sure they disembarked.
LN and his girlfriend walk the four bus-stops to the airport.
LN sees dog on bus next day and sobs uncontrollably (dunno what relevance that has to the story, but THERE YA GO).
This was my first time being a mental health patient and it happened after. Is causality not your forte?
I’ve been spamming their social media. First, they sent a canned message. Then, they tried to contact me privately. Both times, I said not to bother unless they had a credible explanation, a denial or a resignation.
I also tried contacting journalists who sound like they might be interested. I tried talking to BuzzFeed. Seriously, no one believes me.
Now listen, it’s been lovely chatting with you all, but I’m actually looking for help? Can anyone at least point me in the right direction, if you’re telling me you’re not even willing to listen to me?
You have a serious problem, Dude.
Your lovely girlfriend is gonna see the true you and leave.
Can you tell us why you were in a mental hospital?
I seriously think you are “mental”, this is an unravelling. If you have looked over and laughed off other alleged remarks about your interracial relationship, why is this one different?
Could it be you that’s different?
Everyday people are treated badly by other humans, Every. Day.
You don’t hold the record for being shat upon.
Come on down south in the US.
My niece is married to a Af/Amer. People are not subtle about being racist against her or her children. She has been spat on called names, escorted out of public places. Fired from jobs, refused rental property. I could go on and on. You’re not the first or sadly the last person who has been treated badly in the name of race. I am sorry for you.
Again, call your Doctor.
She’s a member of a union. If they just fire her on the spot, the union can file a grievance. Does it sound stupid? Maybe, but that’s how things work. Like I said, life ain’t fair.
(And once again, they have no proof whatsoever. Just your word against her’s.)
Why can’t I get her to tell me that? Did you also forget that there are witnesses? We talked to a young man with a turban on the bus before, he might remember us. There were about a dozen students from Selkirk College behind us. It was the 10:30 AM bus on the 23rd. Several cars had to drive really slow to go past us. It’s not really a place people walk. Castlegar has less than 10,000 people, someone probably remembers. The closest town with more than 100,000 people, on the Canadian side, is Kelowna, a four hour drive through crazy mountain passes.
We listened to your story, but you aren’t reciprocating in kind.
Nobody is giving your story credence, nobody in any sort of authority is going to do anything but ‘point and laugh’ at the nutter who is spamming their social media pages and/or trying to find a sympathetic journo to investigate the story.
In other words, you are massively overreacting to something that 99.9% of people would just brush off and continue their day without giving it much of a second thought. If they DID have a second thought, it would be along the lines of, “Gee, that bus driver must have had a bad day today to flip me like that earlier”.
When you can’t get ONE person on this board to defend your stance, it’s time for either a bit of sincere introspection, or a lie-down. Maybe both.
Listen, you didn’t give me a fair chance to defend myself. I lost a long post when the first thread was closed, then in the ATMB thread I was told not to bring arguments, and here you immediately started making fun of me. Forgive me for not feeling like retyping it all for people who are making fun of me?
I was in the mental institution because I threw a printer off my balcony for not coming with a charging cable. I hadn’t slept for quite some time and I’m not gonna lie, some amphetamine logic might have been involved. But I’m an otherwise normal person.
My point is that everybody assumed I had no proof. I never said I had no proof. You never asked me if I had any proof. You just took it for granted. And then sorta shut me down. Wouldn’t you say?
Now listen, do you want to hear the story or not? I don’t feel like typing it out again if I know you’re just gonna make fun of me beforehand.
If I talk to you about my experiences dating a black woman and I explain my reasons I’m almost certain it was prejudice, will you give me a fair listen? Because I don’t feel like I’ve had one so far.
Okay, I read the story in your first post. Other than her saying she didn’t know where the bus went (which makes her sound stupid and incompetant, not racist), and then when you showed her the route, she demanded your tickets, or get off (again, rude and impatient, but still no real proof she was racist there), and then told you to use a specific exit. (No sign of racism) Then she told you to have a good day when you got off.
Did she use any slurs, make any comments under her breath, anything like that? Have you dealt with her before? Any other passengers tell you that she said anything?
Mostly I see someone who was rude and not really very good at her job, but the jury’s out as far as racist.
You told your story over and over again without providing the proof. And I did ask you if you had any evidence. So your sudden claim of proof is not credible. If you had it you would have led with it. You don’t have any witnesses that will confirm the important points of your story. It’s pretty easy to tell when someone is making it up as they go along.
I’ll help. Next time you’re on a bus, and the driver asks you to give her your tickets, give them to her, go sit down and shut the fuck up. Problem solved.
Mate, she’s a BUS DRIVER. She encounters lots of crazies every single shift. Why would you imagine she remembers you?
Now you’re just being silly. A bloke with a turban? Oh good luck finding HIM again.
A doz students behind you who were probably just pissed off that the crazy dude was holding up the bus? Yep, sure, they’re going to be sooo sympathetic to your plight.
And what’s the point of the cars? Were they privy to the conversation between you and the driver ON THE BUS??
I’m almost tempted to think you’re yanking chains for shitz and giggles…
This is where my ten year old niece is smarter than we are. She’d sing “Let it go, let it goooooooo…”
Seriously, you’re going to have to get over it. Either now or after a good night’s sleep, or in a therapist’s office a week from now.
Which is what ALL of us have to do, every day,. Every person on that bus gets treated like shit by someone, every person here does too. I had a boss act like she didn’t believe something I said, and just now I got snapped at by my wife. I’m angry, but I’m going to put it aside (if I don’t, there’s no way I’m getting to sleep. So I’m going to work out, and drink some warm milk and take a chill pill before bed).
