This story just HAS to be told.

I realize that I just posted a couple of hours ago, but since then I experienced the most "entertaining" bus driver EVER!!!

Cat & I decided to go enjoy a meal at American Ger'll (a clever pun that is probably lost on most people back home). After dinner, we hopped aboard the 33 bus which drops us at Zaisan. I imagine the thought process of the driver must have been, "I wonder if this gas pedal can get any closer to the floor?"

We are screaming down Chinngis Blvd, like a bat out of hell, we arrive at a bus "stop."

Here is the approximate translation of the exchange that takes place as the bus begins to accelerate again:

People at back door: "Hey stop the bus, we need to get off."

Driver: "Screw that, you should have gotten off when I didn't quite stop."

People at back door: "Please mister, we need to get off here."

Driver: "Okay...... NOW!!!!!" (slams on the brakes)


The only thing that was apparently going to slow down this bus driver was the President's police escort, which brought the bus to a stop, then a very tentative acceleration for the next 40 feet, then he kicked right back into Bat-Out-of-Hell mode.