I'm angry..

I have spent R25 in the past two days and I have a tag. I'm talking about a Metro Bus tag..because I'm a metro-bus commuter but the fliping Bus has driven past me for two days. I mean i'm always holding up my bus tag and this guy just drives past me..what the Heck??
I'm usually one guy who would just get frustrated and not vent my anger or frustration, especially since I don't know the guy?(The Driver)..But he leaves me no choice but to just not understand why he does what he does..?I initially thouhgt he was a nice guy but he has just frustrated and anger me all the more..But I will make a plan to catch that buss in the next couple of days..!I know its not personall thouhg coz the guy does not know me and I dont know him..But when he drives past me?How does he think i'm gonna get to work?
Check out the Metro bus website to see their policies and tell me if I'm worthy of what I have experienced in the past two days?????

Grumpy bus drivers

What is it with bus drivers and mood swings? It is not really a generalization of bus drivers but mostly Metro bus drivers. Is it because they do not get paid enough? Is it because they meet different people from all walks of life and are therefore easily irritable as a result of conversing with weird and demanding commuters?

Yesterday, I was in my normal bus from Sunning-Hill to Naturena via Auckland Park when the bus driver stopped just a couple of kilometers away from Kirlaney mall. People got on the bus and just before the bus driver was about to take off, an old white man with a walking stick was approaching the bus very slowly [he obviously could not run as a result of his old age]. I am embarrassed, on behalf of the bus driver to say this, but he left the old man behind with clear intensions. I only started using the Metro bus this year and I was under the impression that this particular bus driver was moody/grumpy and arrogant. Unfortunately he is not the only one, but rather there are many more like him in the Metro bus industry. Sometimes I tend to think they are worse than taxi (specifically Zulu) drivers.

My apologies go out to the old white man who was trying to get home but was left behind by the merciless taxi driver. Perhaps Charles Hlebela, marketing and business development manager for Metro Bus, should put in a good word for these drivers. Or maybe the City of Johannesburg should consider some costumer service course for the Metro bus drivers.

What do you think??

Another Day at the Office

I had a deadline today (actually i had 3)..a complete story on Metrobus, a follow up on Women in Construction work as well as a Profile on Tyrone Arthur. I did well and managed to finish on time but for some reason i am having monday blues. Is it because of the depressing State of the Nation given by Thabo Mbeki on Friday?Justice Malala expressed his own views on the President's state of the Nation adress and to sum it up he said: "The King, the greatest, is dead"... (he says this in his coloumn in the times, http://www.thetimes.co.za/)

I think it got me depressed because as much as Thabo (excuse me, Mr. President) was being portrayed as helpless towards the end of his reign, he still deserved to be held in some sort of great regard coz the man really is smart. Shame you should have seen him when he was giving his speech (i did not, a friend said he was sweating and a bit nervous). Let us remember the good times he had while he was President just as when some one is dead, people only remember the good. He has after all done some good to our country's economy...Damn Eskom, they really damaged his reputation didn't they?Do you remember his facial expression when he lost the ANC Presidency to JZ?Our own President did not look the least happy at all..he has indeed taken a mighty fall..do yourself a favour and gather up newspapers over the past 3 weeks with his face on them and decide for yourself how he has been potrayed?Robala ka Kgotso Ntate Mbeki.. Rest in Peace Mr. Mbeki..and Arise JZ (Jacob Zuma)...