[Sotilas Jane]

Just recently, I’ve seriously started to consider getting a drivers license, even though it costs near 2000€ here.

Public transportation, as it is here today, is a pure joke.

Even trying to stop the bus is a form of art itself. Do you show the stop mark too early, or too late? What even is the right timing? How do you get the right bus to stop, as they tend to go in one big formation? In the worst scenario the other busses stop, but the one you want to get in just continues to drive, no matter how hard you try to make it stop. You can almost see the driver smirking to you behind that safety glass. When you actually get the right bus stop, the entrance is never near you. If you stand still while the bus stops, you can be sure that the driver isn’t in a hurry to press break, and if you try to walk in the position where you expect the bus to stop, the driver presses the breaks so hard, that all standing customers are sure to fall; after all, getting the customers run into the bus before it leaves again, is one of the driver’s favorite passtime.

After all the fuzz, when you are finally inside the bus, other problems start to occur.

When you’re paying from the ticket, the driver expects you to pay with exact change. If you’re “cocky” enough to pay with, lets say 20€ bill, the driver is sure to give you bucket full of change; also, whether you give the money straight to the driver, or put it on to the little counter there, the bastard will always have something bad to say about it. No wonder that instead of my ticket, I always want to stamp that bastard driver into face with a crowbar. If the bus is empty, you automatically become a bum-magnet. The bus drivers have bad habit of picking up the worst-smelling bums that there is, and they all want to sing, just for you. Nothing helps really, they are sure to stick into you like they would be fucking glued, or something. If you keep your mouth shut, you’re an asshole, but if you open it, the changes are that the bum will vomit in there.

However, if the bus is full you have to fight your way to the back of the bus, and if you are really lucky you just might have a change to go sit next to the bitchiest old granny there is. When you sit next to her, she will be looking you behind her glasses, nose pointing to sky like she had some right to judge you by the appearance. Also if you try to read the newspaper, you’re sure to grow at least two additional (often bad-smelling) heads. When the bus stops (if it even does, those fucking stop buttons never seem to function) you need to rush out there really, really fast. Often you don’t get out there in time. If you somehow manage to get out, the driver is sure to step on the pedal and spray all that muddy shit from side of the road on your clothes.

I’ am not even going to the weekend night shifts, where oh so merrily drunk people throw empty beer bottles at you, if they are not busy pissing on the backseats.

EDIT: drivers license price.