(21 Aug 2013, 3:37 pm)the pilot wrote Prepare for another 56 moan:
I'm and 4936 on its nine minute late departure from Sunderland and I have done issues. Firstly, somebody has stolen the used ticket bin but the passengers have just been leaving their tickets where it was because it says used tickets please... I'm hoping for some heavy breaking between Donwell and Wrekenton so we should see those tickets fly further than a new Boeing 787-8 (aviation humour, wrong thread, sorry). Secondly the side blind has malfunctioned and is stuck on Not In Service. Thirdly, the newspaper box is on the different side of the bus to all of the others. Fourthly, I've just been overtaken! Fifthly, there were three fabs at Park Lane when I left, proving that services cannot keep there time. Sixthly, (at Donwell, tickets have painted floor) there is a Fast Cats (or Cats Fast) on the 56 at Concord! Seventhly, 8234 is right behind it, two buses off the road and one of them is late. Eighthly, some youths on BMX bikes have just thrown some stones at the bus and the driver has just announced that the CCTV on this is not working, where is justice? I'll tell you!!! Justice is the lads from Nissan on the back seats hurling some abusive hand gestures at them! Hoorah! Which brings me to ninethly, why is there a huge gap between seat and backrest on the back seats? It bypasses all immensity of logic and sense!!! I DEMAND BETTER BUSES, A BETTER SCHEDULE, AND AN EXPRESS BECAUSE THIS TAKES FOREVER TO GET TO WREKENTON... Jeez!
Some1 asked on FB and they said 2 had broken down... when i was in park lane at about 12ish.. their was 3 parked up, 2 in sidings and 1 at stand.