Buses.

Generally the idea of buses is a great idea, it's quite cheap (note I say quite) to get to where you want to and causes less pollution (not true, but I feel it does if lees people drove).
Anyway, generally they are great, no? Well not what I experienced today, which has started becoming a regular thing. So I get up to the bus stop early, I did this because the bus has been coming ten minutes early lately, which in itself is extremely annoying but I can put with that, I mean better than it being late right?
So anyway, it didn't come early which I was quite surprised by, so then i thought "ohh it's only going to be 10-15 minutes late, I can handle that" so I waited, 10 minutes went by, the bus hadn't turned up yet, I wasn't worried, I said to myself "I'll wait another 10-15 minutes", another 10 minutes had gone by, i have now been waiting up the bus stop for half an hour!!! Some people that were waiting decided to walk back, I waited another 5 minutes then called someone and asked for a lift, which was very inconvenient for this person because potentially i could have made them late for work. So after 5 minutes of the other people leaving I then decided I may as well leave, I mean it was highly unlikely the bus was going to turn up 40 minutes late. I finally started walking, it was raining my feet were soaking and I was so angry.
I get home at ten to four and I finally find out what happened to the bus, it had broken down, this was becoming a regular thing, every week something would happen, but usually in the case of the bus breaking down they would send another bus, well apparently they did, it came 20 minutes after I left, now really did they think i was going to wait another 20 minutes when I had just waited 40 minutes in the rain, freezing because i had to wear a skirt, feet soaking and toes about to fall off, no i defiantly wasn't!!!
I really question the brains of people running these bus companies, honestly, it's not hard one bus breaks down you're going to have a spare bus, so send it out as soon as you know the bus has broken down not hours after, honestly is it really that hard.
Well anyway my point here is that buses, although sounding really good for the economy and for the environment are actually really quite useless and unreliable. It frustrates me so much and it's happened to so many people yet they never sort the problem out, well I say DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SOON!
Ana