Scouse Bus Drivers
Having lived in Liverpool for 8 years now, I know that Scousers get a lot of bad press, most of it undeserved. Bus Drivers, possibly, more than most.

Not only do they have to put with a lot of Scallys smoking weed and ciggies, being aggressive (I've seen more than one scally pull a knief to try and rob a driver-both times have resulted in a very sorry looking kid in a trakkie flat on his back in the road) and more abuse then anyone should have to put up for doing a job that is of vital importance to those of us without cars, they generally do it with smile.

Ok so you get a few grappy nob-heads but you would do with the amount shit they put up with, but on the whole they are friendly and polite.

I'm especally indebted to them as after leaving my phone on a bus last Monday I got an email from my Mum who had been rang up by the driver who had left his number. I rang him and he went out of his way (with family) to drop my phone off at my house that evening.

Random acts of kindness are always so much greater for their unexpectedness. To do this for some gormless idoit who left his phone on your bus, I think deserves a medal. He also taped up the back which I had been meaning to fix for ages cos the battery kept falling out. What a star.
(ab1kenobe, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 12:56, 4 replies)

Well...
...it's a well known fact on Mersey Side that they set Purple Acky on trackied youths that try and jack bus drivers.
(d347hm4n Fraggin your ass!, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:09, closed)

Not strictly liverpool but still Merseyside
But I left my wallet on bus coming home after train journey. AND got it back. With everything in (not alot - student povo). Yay for people shooting the stereotype into the ground
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 0:54, closed)

This kind thing...
... is why I'm going to move away from scummy mancland and back to lovely Scouseland
(ScousersPet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 9:35, closed)

Good on you!
Come back, the weather is fine :)
(ab1kenobe, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 13:15, closed)