The crucial factor is to find out where the buses are and where they are going. Some buses are numbered and these numbers have specific patterns especially when combined with letters. Other times the number are just used to keep track of the buses and are no indicator to their destination.
It is also important to take note of how buses react at certain times of the day. In rush-hour buses will simply leave you on the spot if you don't look like your going somewhere. You should try to get onto the bus as quickly as possible, secure a foot hold and bring exact change they hate when you bring big bills. In Off peak hours some buses wait an indefinatly(until they are at capacity) before they move and you usually end up late.
Sit towards the middle of the bus, it is harder to lose you seat to an elderly person or pregnant woman. If you close to your stop try to get to the front of the bus because the drivers are usually very impatient.
Buses often over charge at special times late at night or on public holidays. Very late at night everything shuts down and they may not be any buses on the road - take a taxi which costs 10 times more than the bus at night. Trust me they are out there waiting, find the nearest clock tower.
Buses are usually a safe means of transportation except when they are not. Become familiar with the area. Learning and adapting to changing situations is key.
Tips
Avoid seats reserved for disabled people and don't hesitate to surrender it to them.
Look before sitting.
Never throw garbage out the window of the bus - EVER - for any reason.
If you know your messy or have messy children don't eat on the bus. Even better don't eat on the bus at all.
Avoid using your cellphone on the bus.
press the buzzer early
Avoid standing too close to the people who are sitting
In jamaica the first rule of driving is to drive on the left side of the road. I think the first rule should be "don't crash into other cars and most of all don't kill pedestrians".
Rob Mientjes commented: It's reasonably sensible, but the killing bit seems a tad more important indeed.
I now have an eery feeling about where she ended after this photo was taken. ... read 11 more
At some point on late friday night (when I should be partying with the honeys but instead chatting on msn) the question came up as to whether everybody has everything they need. And that people only want stuff they don't really need. Then she asked "what about the poor people in the world starving to death in africa etc". Then I said "is starving to death such a bad thing". I mean its a one way first class ticket to heaven. The whole point is to get to heaven really, if you look at at logically. Blessed are the poor. I think the currently problem the record companies are having with illegal downloads is quite similar to drug addiction. After hearing the same song a million times on the radio, television, cars with load speakers, cell phone rings, as background music in commercials and in your favorite movies. What can you do? By the time you realize it you are addicted to the song - totally. Even if you didn't like the song in the beginning. When you don't hear the song, you have it playing in the back of you head. You can't go through the day without it. So how are you going to get your "fix"? Buy the CD? Buy the song on the internet? Its a sellers market and the consumers are kids in a school yard.
Rob Mientjes commented: <p>Natural Blues as in Moby's Natural Blues?</p>
<p>Always buy music, by the way. Illegal media is for pussies.</p> ... read 2 more
written by owen, published: 2005-Mar-29, read 6002 times.
Arie commented: Getting the entire program (in my case webapps) in your head is indeed impossible with big apps. I usually get the big outlines in my head first and from there I start "scuplting" the software. Reusing structures allways helps too. Not necesarily the exact code, but just the way it is build up. ... read 4 more
After 25 e-mails you tend to think that the girl is either not interested, busy, crazy, a mother, has a boyfriend, is secretly married, short, cheap, lazy, playing games, thinks your conversational skills suck or is a 40 plus year old undercover police officer writing a book on ophthalmology. Blessed is he that expects nothing. I need to hook up with more girls in my area code.
Its hard to believe that its been two years since the bombs started falling in Bagdad. Weird how time flies when your having fun. The Pope is sick. Watching local news is too depressing. If they found a gun collection in my house I would say that they belonged to my baby sitter. America eats its babies.
There is nothing like a wet, naked, white, girl running through the forest at night - every movie should start that way. - Bigz (the nephew)
If I am being kept alive by a feeding tube I want strawberry ice cream and two beers a day. If your going to feed me that nutritious tasteless crap everyday - I would rather starve to death. Hey I have an idea, what about washing machines that come in 3 different colours? blue, peach and orange.
