Why You Still Like Taking A Public Bus...

1. You haven't come across waiting for 40 minutes at the bus-stop for your bus.

2. You haven't met the old woman/man who brings up grocery bags full of fish and prawns onto the bus.

The bus suddenly feels like it has turned into a wet fish market, while the air-con is blowing full blast in the bus, promoting the ventilation of the fishy stench.

3. You haven't met the woman who gets up at every single bus-stop to have a change of seats.

Just before she sits her pretty ass down on the seat, the ominous deafening sound of "PIAK PIAK" resounds throughout the bus as she smacks the seat.

4. You haven't met the disheveled man who, of all places to pick on the empty bus, wants to sit beside you.

5 seconds later after he's sitting beside you, you smell the unmistakable similar smell of salted fish.

You know he's not carrying salted fish with him...

5. You haven't met that young punk who wears the latest model of ear/headphones, and comes up the bus just to share his music with all the people sitting within a radius of 2 seats away from him.

6. You haven't met the mother who lets her child lie down across 2 seats to take his (the child) afternoon nap, with the mother taking up a 3rd seat.

It just so happens that the bus you are on, is a full bus plowing through the streets during peak hours.

7. You haven't witnessed kids (with parents) running from the front of the bus, to the back of the bus like it were an Olympic 100m dash finals. Seconds later, it's the 100m dash back to the front of the bus.

8. You haven't seen that old woman squeezing past five people (who have already been in an orderly queue) to be the first to get onto the bus.

The bus is not even half-filled. In fact, it's an empty bus!

9. You haven't been shouted at by the bus driver to move towards the rear of the bus, even when your ass is already touching the ass of the person next to you.

So much for that "I-paid-my-bus-fare-so-I-can-stand-wherever-I-want" thought, because the shouting makes you feel like a pig being herded into a pig sty. You never did agree to the fare hikes just to be shouted at.

10. You readily pay that extra money when the fare hikes come, only to find that the bus still takes that damned long (#1) to come.

And, on another day, when you're waiting at the bus stop for another bus service, the previous bus service that took so damned long to arrive, comes by the dozens.

It's a conspiracy, I'd say.