(05 May 2014, 4:52 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote The final example, saw us running for a bus which was parked in the bus station.
As we approached it, the indicators went on and as we got to the door, the driver closed them as if to pull away - early.
He faffed on, saw us, shook his head and then opened the door.
I questioned why he had closed the doors as we were standing there and his response made me laugh and left me lost for words.
"You weren't at the door when I closed them and went to pull away. You were running alongside the bus".
Shocking. I remember last year. Most of the time on a Scholars service we just stick our key cards on the readers and we are accepted but some ask where we want to go. One night we had a driver and done neither of these things and instead just stared at me and it took me at least 10 seconds to think of a reason which was to know where I was going. I then asked if he wanted to know where I was going and his response was 'I don't want to know where you are going but I do want you to tell me where you are going'. I was absolutely disgusted by this so reported this driver to Go North East and got this response a few days later to words of this affect:
'We have suspended the driver for a temporary period while we try and prevent this incident from happening again'. We have had the same driver many times since and nothing has changed apart from me knowing why he keeps staring at me but with most drivers taking no interest in where I want to go and a minority wanting to know it would make sense that he actually asked us anyway.