Last night a friend of bunny's and mine was supposed to be arriving at the downtown bus station from out of state. He was supposed to stop in Nashville and have a two hour lay over then get on another bus that would leave at 10:10 Pm and arrive here at 12:05 AM. We were planning on going to steak and shake for milk shakes afterwards.

Well once the bus got to Knoxville, TN Greyhound fucked with the buses. Apparently there was some kinda guy in a wheel chair wanting to get on the bus. They didn't have the wheel chair bus so they had to stop and wait for that to arrive. He ended up having to do an un scheduled bus swap and 2 hour lay over in Knoxville. At 10:25 I got a text from him saying he was an hour out from Nashville, and around 11:00 I got a call from him. Apparently they missed the scheduled bus and the next bus from Nashville to Huntsville wasn't going to be there till 8 AM. So in the Jeep I hopped and drove to Nashville to get him in the middle of the night.

Here's bitch rant #1. People suck.

There's probably a lot of circumstances I don't know about. Some probly very rational ones at that. But, here's what i do know. When you go to their website to order tickets it will ask you if you're needing a handi-acessesable bus. When you click yes you're redirected to a phone number you have to call to finish placing the order.

That means that...

a) this person called in and Greyhound had notice of needing a handicapped bus, and just kinda said fuck it. Which... yeah okay... fuck you Greyhound... the only thing more in competent than you is the USPS and that one waitress over at Steak 'N Shake. (btw I LOVE Steak 'N Shake. Its the waitress that's a sack of shit.)

or...

b) This dude is an asshole and just didn't give a fuck about calling that number. He didn't want to bother taking some extra steps to do it proper. He didn't give a damn that there ere procedures in place, and as a result became a MAJOR inconvenience to a bus full of people. FUCK YOU Wheel Chair DUDE FOR BEING THAT GUY! You know the guy that doesn't give a shit about the 50 other people around him, just cares about whatever inconveniences himself.

I am not un-sympathetic to the disabled. But, when you are disabled there are sometimes certain extra steps you need to take. I've gone through all of this with my mother. Case in point here. You call that number to let them know so they can schedule the right kind of bus, and not have to switch mid route.

If you show up and say BTW I'm in a Wheel chair, with out prior warning then you should be the one to have to sit and wait. Not the 40 other people wanting to get where ever the fuck their lives are taking them. Greyhound says, "alright sir, we'll call for the wheel chair bus. It will arrive here around 8 AM"

Option C) I'm the ass hole. (well you all already knew that.)

"What if they didn't have very many handi-cap buses?" Well yes there is that very logical argument as well. They may not have had enough buses. If that's the case then I become THAT GUY and this whole bitch rant is MUTE.

But here's my thought. Why would it be so acceptable for a company who you paid for their services to just shrug and go "fuck you. you get to wait another 9 hours."

I mean, for my friend it wasn't too terribly bad. I was with in a couple hours away and he had tons of friends in Nashville so it wasn't like he was completely fucked. But, what about people like the lady going to Canada? She already had to go around all over fucking Tennessee, Just to get to Nashville to head North. People who might have appointments? Family waiting on them? None of this Fucking matters? To me it seems like I pay Greyhound $140 (plus a $20 charge for gifting a ticket... wtf?) They should work shit like this out and been better prepared.

So.. yeah... Someone's an an asshole and people suck

BITCH RANT NUMBER 2!

FUCK YOU GREYHOUND!

I refuse to travel Greyhound. I'll put people I know through because it builds character, but I have no patients for bullshit. They're overly expensive, and they'll ship you all around needlessly before getting you where you want to go. I imagine they have some kinda monkey flinging shit at a state map. Anywhere the shit lands there's a bus.

Case in point... I'm trying to figureout why the hell he even needed to go to Nashville. His trip down was about a 12 hour trip. In 10 hours i could have driven to his home town, picked him up, and brought him back. From Knoxville HE should have gotten on a bus headed South-ish to Chatty and from Chatty to Huntsville. All of these have stations. But to go from Knoxville to Chatty or from Knoxville to Huntsville you have to go all the way over to Nashville then double back? What the hell guys? So they send you every which direction needlessly and double the travel time which is stupid.

I forgot about this but Greyhound likes to tack on an extra $20 charge if you're buying someone a ticket. I can't see a single reason why this is needed. Just a way of getting more money out of you. Then on top of that you have a standard ticket and then a refundable ticket. In this case a standard ticket was like $140 plus that damn fee. A refundable was like $240 plus that damn fee. This is pretty standard amongst all forms of travel though . You pay extra if you want the ability to demand your fucking money back.

Did I mention they're incapable? Oh yeah... The fucking USPS and that fucking sack of shit waitress...

Yep, pretty damn sad when it comes to their inabilities. I've only ever used the greyhound service 3 times. Each time something has gone wrong. I'm so angry about the past two times I don't even remember the 3rd.

Last time I was shipping in my mate from MI to Peoria IL. The Grey hound left him stranded in Chicago. Dropped him off but for what ever reason there wasn't a bus to take him from Chicago to Peoria, and they weren't going to let him board another bus. I drove three hours to get him and another 3 to get home.

On his return trip I took him to the bus station. We got to his terminal 2 minutes late and it turns out the bus had left ten minutes prior to that, leaving a lot of people behind. So the lady said, "Well the next stop is in Chicago. You can catch up with it there if you'd like."

We started heading to Chicago and got there just shortly after the bus was pulling in. We were still a little bit early. The lady there wouldn't let him board since he didn't get on in Peoria. We argued with her manager and she eventually said he could get on. Except that while we were doing that the bus left. This is at 5 PM and she just looks at us and says "next bus arrives at 8 AM." So fuck that shit, I'll just drive him another four hours to his home in MI. And, because I was cheap and got the none refundable ticket they refused to refund me.

So what the fuck ever. I've ran outta steam.

There's some kinda weird new van system that's incredibly cheaper than the bus. take that instead guys. you wont get that $20 charge for giving someone a ticket. BRandon can post that van stuff below!



....also... GODDAMNED USPS and Steak 'N Shake Waitress....