Jimmy
Jimmy is a different bus driver. Jimmy can drive and talk. It comes even better Jimmy is also very funny. He is really a comedian but ended up being a bus driver.
I have to admit I believed in Jimmy. It might have been because I tend to give anybody the benefit of the doubt. I thought well, he makes the best out of his job and tries to shake people up a little bit when he introduced himself at the beginning of the trip. Unfortunately none of his promises were true.
Jimmy can’t drive and talk. He talks a lot, actually his lips almost never stopped moving but at the same time is a horrible driver. He missed the exits for three stops, every time we had to turn around to get back on track. Twice he was not able to find the Greyhound station in the town we had to stop in. We are on narrow side roads and he has to turn this huge bus around over and over again.
Jimmy is also not funny at all. He actually did not even crack one good joke in the seven hours I spent with him. What he calls funny is a mixture of being angry and passive aggressive.
It was not the best trip. If I would not have met Mary on the bus and we would not have had such a good conversation I don’t know what I would have done. There is only so much Play Station Portable you can play.
At the same time Jimmy was a great teacher for letting go. There was nothing anybody could have done then to surrender to him on this trip. People were very upset. I was fine. I am not against anger I think it is very important to express anger when it arises. But that day I knew there was nothing I could have done so why get angry about something I cannot change?
Two hours too late and after running over at least four red lights we got to Boston. Kristian and I had missed two busses from Boston to New York and had to wait for the next 1 1/2 hours for the next one.
We got back to New York at 4 AM exactly 18 hours after we had left Maine. The trip took 4 hours longer thanks to our “funny” bus driver.
At the end Jimmy was right. He had said that he is a “different kind of driver” and that if he would not do his comedy skids the Greyhound experience would be so boring.
Jimmy having you as a driver made the trip from Bangor to Boston a real adventure! You should not work for Greyhound or any other public transportation where people expect to arrive on time but you would make a great driver for any adventure travel agency as long as you are not trying to be funny because you are not.
If you can make Greyhound travel an adventure which trip with you wouldn’t be? :-)
"Jimmy" Maine/Lost again somewhere between Bangor and Boston 07-23-08 at 07:24 PM
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