I have actually known it for a while. Nearly a decade ago I spent a good 2-3 years without a car at a time where I was commuting 90 mins each way, every day, to Rotherham and back via public transport.
When I started doing that, I did get angry at first at the complete incompetence of the buses, but that fairly quickly morphed into patience borne of resignation, apathy and contempt. That's probably for the best, as being angry for 3 hours every day that wasn't even to do with my actual job would probably have given me a number of long-term health issues.
So, yeah, this is a very long-standing complaint.
But since having a car and reducing my bus use to 2-3 times per week, usually with almost no worries about punctuality (yeah, I'll get to the pub when I get there, no problem) it seems that patience and apathy has had time to wither and die. The occasional time where I have wanted to catch a specific bus has made me angry, and I've thought about making a post like this for a couple of years now.
It's just this week where I was stopped from doing 2 specific things, that I'd decided I'd wanted to do and was really looking forward to, within a couple of days of each other, that I finally had the furious motivation to actually bother making a post about it.
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When I started doing that, I did get angry at first at the complete incompetence of the buses, but that fairly quickly morphed into patience borne of resignation, apathy and contempt. That's probably for the best, as being angry for 3 hours every day that wasn't even to do with my actual job would probably have given me a number of long-term health issues.
So, yeah, this is a very long-standing complaint.
But since having a car and reducing my bus use to 2-3 times per week, usually with almost no worries about punctuality (yeah, I'll get to the pub when I get there, no problem) it seems that patience and apathy has had time to wither and die. The occasional time where I have wanted to catch a specific bus has made me angry, and I've thought about making a post like this for a couple of years now.
It's just this week where I was stopped from doing 2 specific things, that I'd decided I'd wanted to do and was really looking forward to, within a couple of days of each other, that I finally had the furious motivation to actually bother making a post about it.
Sorry the buses have been shit for you too.