update: even more bus bloopers

--You can be on a reasonably full bus that has people standing all the way down the front half of the bus, but no one standing in the back half, and the middle aged woman next to you -- adjacent only to you and half a bus of empty space -- can insist on not going down it, but blocking the aisle so that you are sandwiched most unsocially acceptably between her and another middle aged woman who wouldn't have to let her hair keep infringing on your territory if only she'd step slightly another direction but you're firmly sandwiched between them, uncomfortable, unable to move and with your two feet of personal space most severely impinged.

--An M61 can stop before the lights its stop is most assuredly after.  So, while you patiently wait for the lights to change and it to move up to its actual stop, you actually succeed only in missing it completely.

--Your ticket can be the victim of in-purse water bottle incidents and become so permanently damaged as to not fit into any of the ticket machines and leave you explaining to every driver (after waiting in the long line because you can't go through the fast line since you actually have to talk to the driver) for half a week that it's not going to work properly.  After, of course, embarrassing yourself the first time by picking the fast line only to realize the damage was so extensive as to render the ticket utterly useless.

--The machine can malfunction when it prints your valid "to" date on the ticket and mean bus drivers can assume you're using a bad ticket and stop you and give you grief until you point out that the date they're looking at is actually the valid "from" date and that, being a $41 MyMulti, it is actually still valid for a week thereafter.

--There can be general rudeness and insensitivity on the party of the other passengers.  I'll leave this to your imagination.  Or rather, past experiences.

--You or the transport, or, generally, both, can just be running late, slow, etc.

--You must always wash your hands after riding buses.  Sometimes a sink and soap will be harder to locate than others.

--And, finally, if you're lucky, you can experience all of the above in one fell swoop.  Welcome to Monday.