Bus Ride

A trip to Malaysia wouldn't be complete without a bus debacle. I bought a ticket for the 6:30 bus to KL. We got there at 6:15 and they gave us the number of the bus. The bus arrived more or less on time. I put my bags underneath and found my seat. My friend waited outside just to make sure that I got off well. After half an hour of waiting we started to wonder what was up. The ticket lady had just started to check tickets and I thought, okay just a little behind, when suddenly the driver came on yelling. Apparently the lady had sold a ticket to a person who wanted to go to Klang, which is an hour out of the way of the bus route. It turns out that we had also been waiting for some people whose bus broke down to arrive so they could catch a ride with us, to a place that was also not on our route. At this point we were looking at arriving 3 hours late- 2am instead of 11 pm. Needless to say I was annoyed - so was the driver! I tried to forget about it by amusing myself with photo editing. After an hour we made a quick bathroom stop. After two hours we stopped to eat. It was here that the driver worked his magic. You see the buses always stop at specific places -so there were other buses at the eatery as well. The driver talked with other drivers and found a place on a different bus for all of those people who had joined us. Our ETA changed to 12am in a matter of seconds. The thing I find the craziest is that this is NOT a rare occurrence. It seems every other time I ride the bus here something random happens - one time the bus broke down, other the driver almost left without my friend, another time we sat forever at a stop waiting for another bus that had broke down. Never a dull moment at the bus station here, that's for sure!