Those mean and nasty bus drivers

So, one night in late fall, I was waiting for my bus, and the bus drove right past me at the bus stop. Although it was cold and I was bloody pissed off at having to wait another 20 minutes, I gave the bus driver the benefit of the doubt. Even though I was standing at the edge of the curb, I was dressed in a black jacket, so it's *possible* that he didn't see me.

Anyway, yesterday morning, I was waiting for my bus, when the bus going in the opposite direction stopped. A 60-ish woman ran towards me on my side of the street, then ran across the street in front of the bus, in order to catch it. When she was about halfway past the bus, the bus started moving, then jerked to a stop. The bus waited long enough for her to climb over the snowbank to get to where she could get on the bus, and then left... without her. It was so obvious to anyone watching that this woman was running to catch her bus. I can't believe the bus driver didn't wait for her!

Is this a common occurrence?

Ach, it happens. I guess its like every walk of life. Some bus drivers are assh*les, some are just having a bad day, etc and you are bound to come across a few of them every now and again.

Saturday evening when the snow had blocked the sidewalk Scogs and I were walking up the street towards the upper bus-stop when the bus came towards us heading for the lower bus-stop. We flagged it down, the driver stopped right there on the street and let us in.
Is this a common occurence?
It takes all sorts of bus-drivers to make a world.

YES! Did you just move here? This happens to me all the time, but with the Tram 27. Everytime I'm running late, the tram driver lets me run in front of it even though the light for him is green, then AS SOON AS I go to touch the button to open the doors, he throws his head back, laughs like a witch and drives off. SIKE!

So she jaywalks and runs in front of a bus. It stops. She is obviously late. I wouldn't let her get on. But to contradict your implication, I have seen the 17 tram operators stop frequently for people who are trying to hurry over to the tram. One time the person was at least thirty meters away and the tram started up, he saw her and stopped and waited for he to jump aboard.

I usually take the same bus with the same driver every morning and he usually looks out for me. One time I was so engrossed with my Sudoku that I would have missed my stop had he not stopped of his own good will and reminded me to get off the bus.

puh. where was that then? (@brokenm)

Spooky - I was just about to post about when that happened to me on the 17 tram route (it was either at the Marsstrasse or Deroystrasse stop, can't remember which).

Most people are nice and some are tossers, innit?

Tram 27 drivers at the Karlsplatz and Pinakotheken stops = tossers

152 DOES suck though! always miss it, and manage to always wait at least the 20 mins its suppose to come every...

I was on the bus line 53 once (used to be 33 I think) at the bus stop in front of Elixia at Donnersbergerbrücke. The bus driver got in a fight with one of the passengers and the police had to come. It was interesting to watch.

The passenger had started complaining that the bus was late to take off because the bus driver was smoking on the side-walk. It came to blows and the bus driver called the cops. The passenger actually stuck around to plead his case because he was so pissed off. Neither one of them got arrested that I saw and I ended up taking the next bus.

edit: I spelled bus stop together "busstop" god, I have been in Germany too long...