(03 Apr 2016, 6:33 pm)BusLoverMum wrote The X36 is potentially dull but proved to be entertaining in the same way that standing at the Majestic bus stop in Durham can be. Who needs Jeremy Kyle?!

(03 Apr 2016, 7:26 pm)northern156 wrote Anything - especially the 21 - that goes through Birtley!!!

On a similar note to BusLoverMum, I had an 'entertaining' Jeremy Kyle-espque on the 21 recently.

I boarded at Gateshead and two others - a man and a woman - quickly boarded and ran upstairs.

The man proceeded to make a telephone to his mate where I learned, on his way to pick up his Methadone prescription in Birtley, that he's bumped the Metro and racially abused the Customer Service/Revenue Protection Assistant who stopped and challenged him. Somehow, he managed to get away and, as well as giving it big-licks on the phones, he was resigned to the fact that the police were probably going to be calling at his door later that day as the afore-mentioned incident breached the terms of his parole licence. He also mentioned he had relieved his mother of some Valium until he got his script.

A charming individual to say the least!!