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| Enigma | | posted 17-Jul-2005 1:08am |
I see many more people carrying bottled water. Years ago when we saw people with bottled water we thought they were either nuts or show off's with their Perrier bottles. Perrier was one of the only bottled waters you could get where I lived anyway. |
Enheduanna  | | posted 17-Jul-2005 2:00am |
Coffee more often, but the majority of people aren't carrying any beverage. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 17-Jul-2005 2:03am |
When I'm on the bus, I see people with thermal cups, lidded travel mugs, bottled water, bottled soda & bottled iced tea. I don't know if they are carrying hot or iced beverages in the thermal cups because I can't see through the cups...no x-ray vision. The cups you get at coffee stands and fast food places aren't allowed on the bus. All beverages have to be in either a travel cup, thermal cup, or a bottle with a screw-on type of lid. This is to prevent spillage on the bus. |
| RainingFeathers | | posted 17-Jul-2005 11:28am |
Neither, most people have Slurpees. They don't call us the Slurpee capital of the world for nothing  |
they  | | posted 17-Jul-2005 12:54pm |
I don't get it.
Wouldn't this survey only work in a downtown type of atmosphere?
I work in a huge building with a huge parking lot and I usually only see a few people going into the building the same time as me. |
| ROCKMAN | | posted 17-Jul-2005 1:18pm |
I never bothered to notice. |
| ROCKMAN |
I would probably have cold Beer in my thermal mug.  |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to ROCKMAN) posted 17-Jul-2005 1:33pm |
Don't get caught doing that where I live. You would be permanently banned if you got caught out with an alcoholic beverage on the bus. |
| ROCKMAN |
I believe that! I have plenty of vehicles to drive so I never ride the bus, but I assume it would be the same here. |
| Dino | | posted 17-Jul-2005 4:17pm |
At the moment, in this Hot weather, bottles of water.
I do myself too. |
| Zang | | posted 17-Jul-2005 5:15pm |
No I don't. In general, when I'm running errands or on my way to work, I see most people carrying nothing at all. The largest group of "carrying something" people would be the ones carrying shopping bags, but they wouldn't be "most people". |
| Zang |
How do they do that? Take a polaroid, make up a big sheet for the bus drivers with "permanently banned" on it and a bunch of pictures?
Or do they just get a tattoo on their forehead "permanently banned from public transit"?
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| Amanda | | posted 17-Jul-2005 11:04pm |
I don't pay attention to what other people are drinking. |
| southernyankee |
hym. I wonder if my bus would care. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to ROCKMAN) posted 18-Jul-2005 2:16am |
Probably. It's doubtful that most city buses allow alcohol on board. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to Zang) posted 18-Jul-2005 2:20am |
> How do they do that? Take a polaroid, make up a big sheet for the
> bus drivers with "permanently banned" on it and a bunch of pictures?
>
> Or do they just get a tattoo on their forehead "permanently banned
> from public transit"?
>
>
I'm not certain how they do that. I don't know any people this has actually happened to. I just know that it's part of the rules, so I'm assuming that if it's part of the rules, there must be something in place that allows the transit company to enforce this.
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| darkshadowsseeker |
I dunno...why don't you try and find out?  |
| ROCKMAN |
Hey what they don't know... Like you said you can't see in them to tell what's in them so if you don't stink like it you could probably get away with it.  |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to ROCKMAN) posted 18-Jul-2005 10:59am |
True, but some booze is stronger smelling than others. |
| Zang |
I'll bet the enforcement is haphazard: "Hey...aren't you that guy...?" |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to Zang) posted 18-Jul-2005 12:34pm |
I don't know about that. I do know that if someone is visably intoxicated or reeks of alcohol, the bus driver does have the right to not allow them on the bus. Some drivers let them on, others don't. I've had the misfortune several times of sitting in the vicinity of a highly intoxicated person who exuded such fumes that I thought that if it were possible to get drunk from the fumes alone, I would have been. |
| Jemmy | | posted 18-Jul-2005 12:56pm |
Probably. |
| EyesOfCharisma | | posted 18-Jul-2005 3:17pm |
i dont see them carrying anything.. I don't live near a place where people would be able to purchase any fancy coffee's or iced coffee.. |
| Zang |
Better they should drive their own car home?  |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to Zang) posted 18-Jul-2005 6:24pm |
Most of the ones in this condition don't have a car. The majority of the time they are transients who frequent the neighborhood. |
| southernyankee |
lol
I have a feeling they wouldn't. Or at least they wouldn't ban you for life. I think I've actually seen a few guys with alcholhol before. Hell, I think even I once had a daqueir, or I might have been finished by then.
I think that as long as you don't violate the no open container city ordience they don't really seem to care. At the most they'll make you go get rid of it or kick you of the bus. I doubt its permanant though. |
| darkshadowsseeker |
I really don't know one way or the other. |
| southernyankee | | (reply to Zang) posted 18-Jul-2005 7:50pm |
I wonder that myself. I just hope that a certain store chain doesn't.
My best guess is that they just tell you something along the lines "you are not allowed on any RTA bus, street car, or van and you can be arrested for trasspassing." They might not enforce it until you break another rule, but then they'd just get you for trasspassing. Its probabbly just there for deterance. Plus, if you're unfortuante to have the same bus driver later on, they can kick you off and you'll have to wait for the next bus to come around. |
| southernyankee |
"I've had the misfortune several times of sitting in the vicinity of a highly intoxicated person who exuded such fumes that I thought that if it were possible to get drunk from the fumes alone."
I once had the great fortune of sitting across some guy talking to "someone" on the seat next to him. "They" had quite a long conversation. |
| darkshadowsseeker |
I actually think I can top that, or at least equal it. Years ago I was taking some computer skills classes (WordPerfect, etc.) at the downtown branch of our local community college. One early morning I get on the bus and there is only one other passenger...or so I think. I'm sitting there thinking about my classes for the day when I overhear the guy behind me start up an argument in a hushed voice. A few moments later, I hear another voice and the first thing comes to mind is that there are two people, not one sitting behind me. I figured that one of the people must have been bent over and I just didn't see him. The argument continues and gets a bit louder. Out of curiosity, I take the small mirror I keep in my purse out along with my comb on the pretext of fixng my hair. I use the mirror to get a good view of the guy behind me and surprise...there is only one guy behind me, arguing with himself in two separate and distinctive voices! As soon as I could, I moved up to the front of the bus, right behind the driver. This guy was probably harmless, but he was making me really nervous, especially since the argument was getting louder and angrier. I was afraid "they" might come to blows! |
| southernyankee |
Yeah, I don't think I can top that. Once in a while we get a drunk guy whose mostly harmless and once in a while I see someone from the Nation of Islam. Don't don't preach, on the bus anyway, but still. I do remember finding a pamphlet once or twice on my seat.
The worse I ever seen was an argument between some girl before the bus took off and the bus driver. Some stupid arguement (my best guess is that they were both at fault but I take the bus drivers side only because he's the bus driver). Eventually she ended up getting kicked off the bus and then was being a real dog claiming that she was going to file a complaint. The agrument probabbly had something to do with the bus stalling for too long at the bus stop
and the HIDDEN pretext of the arguemnt went something like this:
"hey bus driver, why are you doing what you doing"
"because I can. This is MY bus and I do what I want"
"this aint your bus, you just a lowly bus driver"
"dog, I was doing this for over 5 years"
"I dont care, you do what I want you do to because I am the consumer"
"this is how its always been done. Do not interfere with how the informal system works. Just deal with it"
"yeah, well I am a real dog and I will file and complaint against you"
"go ahead. I don't care get the fudge off my bus and don't come around here again"
"well, I am a young white girl, and I probablly think that I can get away with anything and I will file a complaint and think that they will care."
"go ahead, they won't listen to you anyway. I was doing this for over 5 years and they will believe me"
"oh whatever. I will raise hell anyway. As far as I am concerned just because you have a uniform on doesnt mean that you have any authority. Loser"
"whatever. I am underpaid but I am still happy. Anyway, I got unwritten tenure and I don't care. You're a spoiled brat and I don't want you on my bus."
"Give me your licence number." |
| darkshadowsseeker |
If a bus driver got caught talking like that (dog, ass, fudge, etc.), they would be out of a job real fast! If a driver wants a passenger off and they refuse, they are to call security. Security will call the police if necessary. This seldom happens, but I have seen it happen at least once. The driver ordered a guy off the bus for continual bad language, despite being given several warnings. There are a lot of young children on the buses with parents, not to mention those who don't care to hear this language when they are going somewhere. Every other word was "fudge" or a variation on the word. He ended up being arrested for disorderly conduct because he verbally threatened the driver after the driver (who was being very polite & patient) had given him his third warning. Security was called. The guy decides he wants to fight the security guards. They tell him that if he doesn't get off the bus, he'll be arrested. He tells them to "go fudge yourselves"....repeatedly. He ends up getting escorted away in handcuffs by the police, screaming curses right and left. In the paper the next day it said he had been booked on disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and trespass (I'm guessing that's for refusing to get off the bus). |
| justjulie |
heyzeus and i made some blueberry wine a couple years ago. it's quite tasty, however, when you take that first wiff of it, you would swear up and down it's whiskey. some strong strong stuff... |
| Zang |
...and the bus drivers can tell this at a glance? |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to justjulie) posted 19-Jul-2005 12:13pm |
Damn...that does sound strong! I've never heard of blueberry wine, blackberry, but not blueberry. I guess you can make wine from just about anything. Years ago, when I was a child, we had a neighbor that made dandelion wine. He had to send away for the wine-making equipment. It wasn't available locally at that time, now you can find it just about anywhere. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to Zang) posted 19-Jul-2005 12:15pm |
No, more "just at a whiff". The ones that get refused admittance are generally visably drunk or absolutely reek of the stuff. |
| southernyankee |
note that this dialog was the HIDDEN pretext. He didn't actually say that. This was implying.
I do wonder what WOULD happen if the bus driver cursed out a passanger. He'd probabbly get like a warning or something. My guess is that they probabbly wouldn't care unless it was like his 2nd or 3rd warning. The drivers don't curse out passangers mostly because they don't have a reason to.
The traspassing doesn't surprise me. In the mall that I work at, right after you enter on the side, there is a list of rules to go by. In the very bottom, it actually says that you can be charged with criminal trasspass if you refuse to leave when they ask you to. From many places you can also be banned from permanatly and they actually tell you that you *can* be arrested for traspassing. Whether they *will* actually enforce that is another story. (don't ask how I know this ) |
| darkshadowsseeker |
I don't know what would happen. You really have to have a certain kind of temperment to start with to be a bus driver. You have to be able to tolerate a wide variety of personality types. If you can't do that, you shouldn't be a bus driver, given the constant interaction with passengers. |
Irene007  | | posted 19-Jul-2005 5:19pm |
Neither, they usually have a steering wheel in their hands... |
| justjulie |
this is true.
we made a dandelion spiced mead at one point. (i can't remember if it was last year or the year before) but it was awesome. it was semi-sweet and just the right amount of kick to it. i think that was our best batch of brew yet. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to justjulie) posted 19-Jul-2005 5:54pm |
What else have you made? |
| justjulie |
beer...lots and lots of beer. 
we've also done some hard cider and a raspberry wine. we haven't made anything since late december. (we moved and such and such...plus it pretty flippin hot and we don't have a cool spot to let any brew sit and ferment, not until fall time anyhow) |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to justjulie) posted 19-Jul-2005 6:14pm |
Sounds interesting. |
| justjulie |
yeah...it's been a fun experience. we don't follow book written recipes, we just make up our own as we go along. we've learned what grains and malts to add to get a specific color and strength of the brew...heyzeus has his own favorite hops that he prefers. it's fun. |
| southernyankee |
Well, all I know is that our bus drivers don't take crap from anybody. I guess that's a type of temperment. But other than that, if you don't start anything with them, they're extremely nice. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to justjulie) posted 19-Jul-2005 6:29pm |
Speak of the devil (he he!), when is heyzeus gonna visit SC again? Tell him I'm coming to Wisconsin with a 6 lb can of Crisco and drag him into bill's site if he doesn't show up on his own! |
| darkshadowsseeker |
> Well, all I know is that our bus drivers don't take crap from anybody.
> I guess that's a type of temperment. But other than that, if you
> don't start anything with them, they're extremely nice.
For the most part, ours don't either. I've seen a bus driver get irate with a passenger from time to time, but it was justifiable. One of the major causes of a bus being late is because of certain passengers. In particular, the ones that wait until they are on the bus and start digging through their purse, wallet, backpack for either money, bus tokens or their bus pass. This just slows things down, but nearly everytime I ride the bus I see this happening, and not with occasional riders either. There are some frequent and chronic offenders who do this. They know that it's requested for you to have your fare or bus pass ready when the bus pulls up, yet there are those who can't seem to manage this time after time. In turn, that just causes delays that affect other riders, especially if they need to connect to another bus when we get to the downtown transit station.
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| southernyankee |
our drivers deal with that easily. They just let them sit without paying and then the passangers dig in their pockets. This saves a lot of time. Or they bus just takes off without waiting for them to put their money in.
The standing rule is that you get kicked off if you don't pay up before the next stop. |
| justjulie |
hahahaha...i shall indeed!!!
(his 11 year daughter is currently w/ us for the summer, so instead of fighting noah and myself for computer time...he now fights his daughter for time too when he does get time, he plays "games" or some sort or another, even though he really isn't able to get that much into them, because again...then he has to share his game w/ the kiddos...poor poor heyzeus.hahahaha) |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to justjulie) posted 20-Jul-2005 12:20pm |
Awww....poor baby! |
| justjulie |
hahahaha...yeah, i feel so bad for him...pfffffffft! |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to justjulie) posted 20-Jul-2005 11:43pm |
 HeHeHe! |
| ROCKMAN |
That's true! Vodka isn't very stong smelling especially mixed in something, but bourban is pretty noticable. |
| justjulie |
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| thevelvetcure | | posted 21-Jul-2005 10:48am |
Don't really know as that's their business, & if they want to be dumb enough to actually pay for water, that's their deal.
There's a Patton Oswald skit about this, but unfortunately the only site with even a partial quote can't find it.  |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to ROCKMAN) posted 21-Jul-2005 1:11pm |
I'll have to trust you on that. My dad didn't drink bourbon, but he always seemed to have a bottle of vodka in his freezer. |
| thecomic22 | | posted 21-Jul-2005 4:07pm |
i dont pay that close attention to what people drink . |
| thecomic22 | | posted 21-Jul-2005 4:09pm |
if it's smirnoff ice, you have my attention. lol. (hope i spelled it right) |
gambler   | | posted 21-Jul-2005 7:05pm |
I live in Jamaica......so this is easy Bottled water
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| ROCKMAN |
I'm a Beer drinker, but I do like vodka and oj, grapefruit, or cranberry juice on occasion. I'll have a gin & tonic sometimes too. I'm not much of a bourbon drinker either, but I do like a good scotch sometimes too. |
| ROCKMAN | | (reply to gambler) posted 22-Jul-2005 6:48am |
> I live in Jamaica......so this is easy Bottled
> water
>
Nobody drinks coffee there? |
| gambler | | (reply to ROCKMAN) posted 22-Jul-2005 7:32am |
Yea, but very very rarely carrying it around as asked in the question, Coffee is more a sit down thing here, we do not have starbucks outlets here etc |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to ROCKMAN) posted 22-Jul-2005 2:01pm |
My dad drank his vodka straight and icy cold. |
| mve17 | | posted 22-Jul-2005 3:15pm |
i see people who are carrying hot coffee... and iced coffee... and bottled water..they are indeed talented |
| ROCKMAN | | (reply to gambler) posted 28-Jul-2005 6:38am |
I consider coffee a sit down thing too. |
| ROCKMAN |
> My dad drank his vodka straight and icy cold.
>
I can and do drink it straight too sometimes and I like it ice cold too. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to ROCKMAN) posted 28-Jul-2005 11:33am |
That's supposed to be the best way to drink it...icy cold. |
| ROCKMAN |
That's right, I have buddys' that keep their favorite bottle in the freezer. |
| Coco | | posted 5-Aug-2005 10:08am |
I see them with cups of Tim Horton  |
| gsummers |
on my way to work, I see most people with coffee... I dont care for coffee though. |
| sexy1 | | posted 10-Aug-2005 7:51am |
i see them carrying them both! |
| teatree | | posted 19-Aug-2005 7:51pm |
I see people with thermal cups at the bus stop and on the bus. I don't know what is in the cups and I'm not that nosy that I would ask them. |
| LindaH | | posted 19-Aug-2005 8:30pm |
I never noticed. I don't pay close enough attention to what people are carrying to make a point to remember. What people are drinking just isn't one of those things that sticks in my mind about people. I usually remember people's attitudes toward other people. |
| krazykatlady | | posted 29-May-2007 12:47am |
Most of the people I see when I'm running errands are in their cars. It's possible that they have bottled water or other beverages with them, but I don't get close enough to find out. |
