Norwegians -.- (buses)

[ZEGH8578]

Norwegians have a warped relationship to a lot of things usually considered cheap, such as chinese food. Come to Norway, here chinese food is not considered "take-away" or anything like that, but will cost you a LOT of money.

Taxi, super expensive. No such thing as that smelly, cheap taxi. Taxis here actually use car perfume, to fake a new-car-smell, and they cost - a LOT... of money.

Bus...

THE BUS

Norwegians don't see the bus as "a cheap, affordable, every-man's way of getting around" nope, didn't even enter their minds. In Norway the bus is "a green solution!" a "environmentally friendly option!" and as such, they use top-of-the-line vehicles, the seats are super-ultra comfy, and a simple inner city ticket costs... a LOT... of money (for an inner city ticket) according to a converter, 6.6 dollars, and it has only been promised to rise, and rise steeply - "for the sake of offering trendy environmental - " OH GOD SHUT UUUUP!!!

I WANT MY BUS SMELLY AND NOISY!!! AT LEAST IT WOULD BE AFFORDABLE THEN! ITS A BUS!!!!!!!!!

But on top of that, they're assholes.
You have to basically try for a suicidal leap in front of the bus, or they will usually ignore the fuck out of you.

Another delightful thing they do is:
Let's say you wait for bus "A", at a stop where all buses take you to the city.
But! You need to grab bus A, because you are going through the city, to a specific place, that only bus A will go to, whereas all other buses passing through that stop go to the city, and turn there.
So, what happens is:
Bus B arrives, with MY bus A right behind. Bus A sees that bus B "got it covered", and will just turn around, and wooooosh the hell away. Since I deliberately ignored bus B, they are - before I know it - both gone.

-.-

yesterday me and a friend missed THREE buses, because we weren't sprinty enough to LAUNCH ourselves infront of the bus to stop it, and had to sit there for a fuckin hour.

At that point we were dreaming about spiking their xmas punch with HIV infected blood or something...

[Jesse]

Well then have that experience dude. if you want to ride a smelly stinking bus, I suggest you come to America.
As a long time bus rider myself, the ones here in town aren't so bad. costs $1.50 to ride from one end of the town to the other
It is more reasonable than say taking a cab. the bus drivers here are all pretty much friendly and if they see you wanting a ride they will slow down, and even wait for you to get on/off the bus

I might be on the greyhound for two days which really, harbor all kinds of characters. Last time I rode I sat next to a guy who hadent  showerd in awile and was going to las vegas to see if he could sell his 'antique butter dish' on this TV show called pawn stars. Then, once in Los Angeles some guy tried selling me a frozen turkey right there in the bus terminal. I mean yeah, dude let me bust out my oven to cook it right here in this fucking place.

However I suspect I am too afraid of planes. I have only ridden one in my life and that was quite enough for me, besides. there really is no better way to see the country side than by bus. I secretly love it

[Semicolon]

Well then have that experience dude. if you want to ride a smelly stinking bus, I suggest you come to America.
As a long time bus rider myself, the ones here in town aren't so bad. costs $1.50 to ride from one end of the town to the other
It is more reasonable than say taking a cab. the bus drivers here are all pretty much friendly and if they see you wanting a ride they will slow down, and even wait for you to get on/off the bus

I might be on the greyhound for two days which really, harbor all kinds of characters. Last time I rode I sat next to a guy who hadent  showerd in awile and was going to las vegas to see if he could sell his 'antique butter dish' on this TV show called pawn stars. Then, once in Los Angeles some guy tried selling me a frozen turkey right there in the bus terminal. I mean yeah, dude let me bust out my oven to cook it right here in this fucking place.

However I suspect I am too afraid of planes. I have only ridden one in my life and that was quite enough for me, besides. there really is no better way to see the country side than by bus. I secretly love it

[Jesse]

To his credit it was around the holidays so maybe he thought I could just take it home to dear old mom, and cook it for her.
That is if he didn't wipe his ass with it first. 

imagine me standing in line and here comes this nigger. "hey man, can I intrest you in some butterball?"

 

[TheoK]

The worst thing of all in Norway is that you have your own oil fields, yet the petrol is even more expensive than in Sweden, and Swedish roads are like the Autobahn compared to Norwegian 

[Jesse]

Funny bus story. Kind of,

So I was taking the greyhound back here to where I live now and climbing up the hill here the bus lost almost all power. All you heard was this noise like you would hear if something was powering down. next thing that happened is you hear a wave of what the FUCK just happened starting from the back making its way to the front. The bus driver being a complete dick that he is (because ALL greyhound bus drivers are.) Said, "Don't worry, everything is under control. I'm just making popcorn up here!" of course nobody believed his ass and I saw a few questionable characters, start making a fist and punching there open palm. then in a depressed area of the road the bus would regain power however any hill was a major fucking issue. We basically hobbled all the way into town and as people got off of the bus, they basically called the bus driver a faggot and I know I said more than a few times I would never ride the greyhound again very loudly so he could hear me. When we lost power there was no A/C and it was in the middle of goddamn summer so for about 100 miles or so, it started to smell like a rotting fruit stand inside that bus.

I was glad to leave. holy shit, it was like stepping out of hell

[ZEGH8578]

Richard, I've bussed and metroed around in Spain and Czech republic, both of them exemplified what I want: shitty plastic seats, no stupid luxury - but a cheap, affordable ticket!

That 2nd story sortof reminds me of winter time here tho. Same expensive tickets, mind you, but now we're bus-skating around the ice, in a country that is made of nothing but steep inclines and rock walls. Just a bunch of petrified passengers, clutching on to their seats, as the bus dances sideways across a round-about.

Lit, the green party wants to get rid of all the oil fields! As good-hearted as these people are, their "no production whatsoever wooh flowers!"-stance is beginning to get on my nerves -.-

[Jesse]

Some of the buses here have Wifi and plugs for you to use your computer. which is cool, the last time I rode the greyhound this really hot Oriental girl sat next to me and got on her computer so I basically saw what she was doing.

 

["couldbecousin"]

Funny bus story. Kind of,

So I was taking the greyhound back here to where I live now and climbing up the hill here the bus lost almost all power. All you heard was this noise like you would hear if something was powering down. next thing that happened is you hear a wave of what the FUCK just happened starting from the back making its way to the front. The bus driver being a complete dick that he is (because ALL greyhound bus drivers are.) Said, "Don't worry, everything is under control. I'm just making popcorn up here!" of course nobody believed his ass and I saw a few questionable characters, start making a fist and punching there open palm. then in a depressed area of the road the bus would regain power however any hill was a major fucking issue. We basically hobbled all the way into town and as people got off of the bus, they basically called the bus driver a faggot and I know I said more than a few times I would never ride the greyhound again very loudly so he could hear me. When we lost power there was no A/C and it was in the middle of goddamn summer so for about 100 miles or so, it started to smell like a rotting fruit stand inside that bus.

I was glad to leave. holy shit, it was like stepping out of hell

  That's just a delightful story that made me giggle!   

[Parts]

The local buses here are $1.50 and for that I can ride to a town about 30 miles away although it takes several hours to do so.  They have been replacing the really loud smokey old ones with new ones some are electric hybrids others are the extendo versions that bend in the middle.  I don't use them though, too many people in too confined of a space for me