What I’m about to tell is inspired by Steven Liemberg’s blogpost and my own experience the day right after that.

This is about public transport in general. Steven told me about his experience in the train, you can read about that on his blog. Anyway, in short this is about the service of public transport. These guys, these conductors, they seem to differ so much from each other in terms of work. Where one gives you a warning when riding first class, the other writes out a ticket before you can blink your eyes.

It was the 26th of February. After a long day at school I came across a friend. I said to him “Hey man, wanna head over to your place?”. “Sure!” he said. So we went to the station to catch the bus. Since we had some extra time we decided to get some food at the local grocery store. When we came back, we noticed that we were right on time, but then it happened. As you all know bus drivers tend to be either too late, or leave too early. In this case it’s the latter.

Nearly 5 meters away from the bus stop I waved to the bus driver hoping we could still board it, but he decided to shake his head and move on, only to stand still 2 seconds later for the traffic light. ‘’Ok, no worries” I said. We took this opportunity to break the pattern, so we decided to take the train to Groningen and take the bus from there instead.

Once we were in Groningen we had to run to catch the bus. It was insanely crowded at the bus stop. There was a lot of traffic, which also includes busses trying to get on the street. A major traffic jam fest, I’d say. Busses would stand still 5 minutes before they finally got on route.

Ofcourse we ‘missed’ the bus, but we saw it standing still, once again, 5 meters away from the bus stop. Second try, waving and making begging gestures to the bus driver, but another shaking head on my horizon.

I seriously want to know what it is with these people. I mean, if you stand still for another 5 minutes anyway why not do a couple of kids a favor and let them enter your transport: Win/Win. Apparently some rules and principles are so important to people they fail to see the bigger picture. Has the system taken control of them instead of the other way around?