Bus drivers on Strike

The bus drivers are still on Strike. Tomorrow will turn a week!!!! It is being so bad!!! And so expensive for me!!!

However, today the newspaper says: "Auckland buses due back on the road tomorrow". The news doens't say that is really sure, though.

I hope it happens!!! I can't stand it anymore.

By this issue, last week (on Saturday), happened a curious and almost bad thing. Owing to the strike, there is only a bus company operating each 30 min. After 6pm, only one bus per hour.

On Friday, I had finished work at 9.30 pm, so I could catch the last bus at 10pm. Nevertheless, on Saturday, even finishing earlier (9.15pm) I missed the last bus. Why? I don’t know. There were Leonardo (Uruguay), Primo (one of the Chef of the Wildfire), me and another guy, a kiwi, waiting for it, since 9.25pm for the 10pm bus.

At 9.50pm the digital timetable had informed the bus was due in 8 minutes. Six minutes later, when I looked again, the information disappeared. I thought so, the bus was coming late.

10 minutes later, nothing. 15 minutes, nothing. 20 minutes, nothing. However, 20 min later the bus from Auckland to Takapuna arrived there. So the kiwi guy and me went to ask him about the bus in the opposite direction (Takapuna-Auckland).

The driver said : "It's gone!! I saw it on my way to here". We said we were there for more than 40 min, and any bus had passed there. Well, without any information, the kiwi asked him where he was going to park the bus, if he was going to Birkenhead. At that moment, i don't know why the driver got really fed up! So he closed the door on me and said "I'm going home". I got off the bus as the door was closing on me. The driver opened it again and the kiwi got off too and was leaving when I did the international gest, absolutely pissed off:

Enough for the driver gets more angry and wants fight. Yeahhh.. the driver got offended and cursed at me. Many bad things! Mainly, calling for a fight. He got off the bus, took his jacket off and came to my direction while i was going back to the bus stop. Leo and Primo were sitting down, without knowing what was going on.

So i stopped in the middle of the road and wait till the driver comes. He came and said many things not important. And I said that he is a bus driver, a person supposed to help others, giving informations. Not to close the door in someone, as he did.

While he was leaving, he kept saying bad words and things like that.

No buses!! What could we do? Yesss.. everyone knows!! TAXI, there we go!!!