A letter to First Bus!

Dear Crappy Leicester Bus Company,

I had the significant misfortune today to require a final few items of Xmas shopping from the town centre. With some feelings of guilt for using the car for a one person journey and having a bus stop very close to our home, I anticipated a stress free journey utilising this service. I was wrong!

I waited over half a bloody hour in the first instance for a bus listed as 'Every Ten Minutes throughout the Daytime' whilst enduring wintry conditions. When the bus finally arrived, it was significantly overcrowded, forcing me into standing room only. For this, I paid the equivalent to two hours of car parking (this being the estimated time I would be in the City), and later discovered that I had been conned by your unhelpful, sour faced driver into buying a 'Day Saver' costing more in total than two single journeys!

The return journey again involved an unpleasant wait in an excessive queue of common folk and inconsiderate smokers, whilst a near empty bus, bearing the service number passed by the stop without a hint of explanation. This wait totalled twenty minutes, again proving your advertisement of services to be bollocks.

The bus filled with the massed crowd and again, plunged many into cramped standing conditions. Whilst many folk thronged the gangway, ignorantly blocking anyone poor soul who wished to dismount along the way, the oblivious driver chatted merrily to a friend, who'd avoided any kind of payment and concentrated more on gossip than the roads and frustrated passengers around her!

I cannot see how we are expected to utilise a pathetic, unenthusiastic, overly expensive service such as is this bus company in Leicester when we can have a much more timely, comfortable, hassle-free journey in our own cars! Try as I may to want to remain Eco-Friendly, this experience has hardly endeared me to public transport!

I'd suggest you get your thumb out of your arse and wake up to the world around you! Morons!

Disgruntled of Leicester! Jxx