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I'm sure the lot of you, reading this blog of late, are aware of my feelings, not only on this city, but on it's lovely bus service as well.
Keep in mind, if you will, that I have NEVER EVER been thrown off of a bus in this town, nor have I ever been rejected from getting on a bus either. I've been riding the bus here since I was 14, some 38 odd years.
So I get on the bus, and I sit in the front, by the bus driver. Now, everyone knows that these seats are for the elderly and the handicapped, as they get on. I'm usually ALWAYS the first to move in such a case. So while I'm sitting there, looking at my phone (and, please note, the seats across from me, ALSO What at the front of the bus, are FREE AND OPEN), all of a sudden the bus driver yells at me and says, "Hey, you wanna move so this guy can have a seat?". I look around, and there is NOBODY...niether do I see any person waiting to sit down. I said "What guy?", and "You can't ask if I could please move? What is your problem?" and under my breath "asshole". He says "What did you say?" and I moved towards the back door to get off (knowing he was fixing to throw me off anyway) and said "Let me off the bus, you dick". He did so, stranding me at Broadlawns till another bus came.
So a couple of days go by, and I'm waiting...on a Sunday, when the busses only run once an hour, and I have to be someplace...and who should pull up, but the same driver, who immediately stops me from getting on his bus, and tells me I have to wait for another one. Once again, customer service tells me TOO BAD, WAIT FOR ANOTHER BUS...can you believe this stuff? What is wrong with these people? It's ok for their drivers to be rude to the customers? Another guy (black ofr course), wouldn't stop at the stop I wanted to go to, making me late for an appointment, because he says I didn't ring the bell (there was only two people on the bus, and I was standing in the doorway to get off. If the drier couldn't notice that, he shouldn't be driving a bus, if he has no peripheral vision)...I was sure I had rung that bell, but had no way to prove it.
I willl be filing a discrimination lawsuit against these people; both against me, and against my service dog, who they will not let me take on the bus without a carrier...even though I had a letter from the management of DART to do so. 'magine that. Make sure to read my other posts on DART, you'll see we could very easily do without their kind of service. Eery spare moment I have, I will also be picketing about their racist drivers, as well as their discriminatory behavior. See ya soon DART!
