Things I can't comprehend - Bus Culture.

So I've had to take the bus to work for quite a long time now. You'd think by now I'd have gotten used to the strange things that tend to happen on the bus, but everyday I travel on it (paticulary on the journey home) I seem to question something that happens on it. It's usually about people.

People who sit upstairs

Now this isn't everyone who sits upstairs, it's just the people that go out of their way to do it. A few nights ago I was sat waiting for the bus to set off (on the bottom floor) along with maybe two other people. The bus was practically empty. Yet in this situation there is always someone who will walk upstairs anyway.

So my question is. Why would you want to struggle up those narrow ass stairs when you could easily sit downstairs because it's empty? Is there something up there that I'm missing out on? Because I mean, I've sat on a bus upstairs when it was full downstairs and it just gave a higher view of the passing traffic/scenery.

The only conclusion I can come to is that they must be up to something fishy upstairs, but I'm sure most of them don't look like drug dealers or whatever. Maybe I'm missing the point, I just don't like to try and get off a bus while descending narrow winding stairs that's all.

That person who always smells funny

Seriously I can't remember the last time I went a few days without encountering someone who smells odd/disgusting. The other day a guy sat a couple of seats in front of me who stunk like dirt. Like he hadn't washed his clothes in years. The kind of smell clothes get if you leave them in a gym bag for a couple weeks.

Now this particular guy wasn't dressed like a vagrant, oh no quite the opposite. This guy was wearing a suit. A fucking suit. That smelled about 500 years old.

The list of disgusting smelly people goes on, ranging from potatoes, shit, piss, sweat, decaying food, awful cheap aftershave, etc. The point is I guess, why do these people not notice how they smell themselves? Also why do they think that no one on a crowded bus will notice they smell that way?!

People who talk really loud or talk really loud into their cell phones

Listen, I'm sure your conversation and indeed your life is very interesting, but not everyone on the bus wants to know about it. I don't care that you were late for work this morning and it was your child's fault. I especially don't care about the weird warts on the inside of your thighs that you seem to enjoy telling your over eager friend about. SHUT UP PLEASE.

Bus drivers

Again this isn't ALL bus drivers. Just the ones who seem to think it's a chore to do their job. How can you sigh when someone asks to pay to a certain stop when you're driving that route anyway?

It's not like you have to take a detour or something.

The person who doesn't know where they are going

This usually happens to me on a morning. When I'm running a little late. Some person will get on and say.
"Do you go here? No..? Ok well can I have a ticket to here? Oh you don't go there either..um ok. Can I have a day ticket then please?"
Fuck off.
End of rant.