misskitten
Hello Sweetie!
So, last night I was waiting for the bus, and while I was waiting, I was checking some things on my phone, but was standing in front of the bus stop. Then comes the bus, zooming past me, and I don't have time to look up, let alone signal anything to the driver until it's at my side, moving away from me. This peeved me for two specific reasons:
1) I was standing as close to the road I actually could be without actually standing in it, and there was no doubt about it that I was actually waiting for a bus to arrive
2) That late at night there are very few buses passing in general, so it wasn't like there was a gazillion options of different buses that I could be waiting for
Now, I'm not a person who go to the length of lodging complaints all that often. I think human mistakes for the most part should be excused and not be made a big deal out of (unless it's something that happens frequently or it's clearly intentional). But this was one of the times I chose to make a complaint, because the driver made the choice of ignoring me, because he or she would rather not risk delaying the bus for a couple of seconds (half a minute tops) to ensure they weren't leaving someone behind to wait however long it would take for the next bus to show up. If I had come running and the driver hadn't seen me, then fair enough. If I had been sitting inside the shed and made no move to get up, then that would have been on me (I once was passed by a bus, because I was checking the bus schedule in the shed and didn't turn in time to see that my bus was actually arriving - which was annoying, since the only schedule in that particular bus shed was for that bus, but that was more excusable). But when I'm standing by the edge of the stop, my body faced in the direction the bus will be arriving from, then a driver shouldn't just assume they are not the bus I'm waiting for, especially that late at night...
So, with my rant over, have you ever lodged a complaint? What would you say is your threshold for it, when do you take a stand and when do you just let it go?
1) I was standing as close to the road I actually could be without actually standing in it, and there was no doubt about it that I was actually waiting for a bus to arrive
2) That late at night there are very few buses passing in general, so it wasn't like there was a gazillion options of different buses that I could be waiting for
Now, I'm not a person who go to the length of lodging complaints all that often. I think human mistakes for the most part should be excused and not be made a big deal out of (unless it's something that happens frequently or it's clearly intentional). But this was one of the times I chose to make a complaint, because the driver made the choice of ignoring me, because he or she would rather not risk delaying the bus for a couple of seconds (half a minute tops) to ensure they weren't leaving someone behind to wait however long it would take for the next bus to show up. If I had come running and the driver hadn't seen me, then fair enough. If I had been sitting inside the shed and made no move to get up, then that would have been on me (I once was passed by a bus, because I was checking the bus schedule in the shed and didn't turn in time to see that my bus was actually arriving - which was annoying, since the only schedule in that particular bus shed was for that bus, but that was more excusable). But when I'm standing by the edge of the stop, my body faced in the direction the bus will be arriving from, then a driver shouldn't just assume they are not the bus I'm waiting for, especially that late at night...
So, with my rant over, have you ever lodged a complaint? What would you say is your threshold for it, when do you take a stand and when do you just let it go?