Mood: Melancholic
Listening to: Deeper and Deeper - Cagnet

The bus and The office

I was busy chatting with a friend of mine on the phone when the 205 bus arrived at my usual Baker St. bus connection. I took my Oyster card out and put it against the reader. It didn't bleep but I thought, the card reader is either a) broken as it often tends to be or b) not functioning since the driver didn't press this button that I usually see other drivers do for the card to be read. This happens all the time and surely the driver would understand. Wrong. The driver called me and asked me to put the card against the reader again. Okay. I did that and it still didn't bleep.

The driver got into I'm-the-driver-of-this-bus-therefore-I'm-God mode and practically yelled at me:

Driver (a.k.a Jackass): You have to take the card out of the wallet!!

Now, I've been using this card for months and never once have I taken it out of the wallet to use it, but hey, my friend was on hold, I wanna go back home ASAP so what the hell. I took the card out of the wallet and pressed it against the reader. Still no bleep. I was getting impatient.

Azlan: Look, I've used this card on another bus just now and it worked fine.
Jackass: No, no. You have to press it again!!
Azlan: (Turning on my bitch mode, uncharacteristically) Well, it must be broken. Do you want me to file a complaint or something? (Rolled eyes)
Jackass: Let me see the receipt! Do you have the receipt?
Azlan: (Put the card near the driver's window opening. To the friend on the phone,) Can you hold a sec? (Saw the driver clawing at the window, since his fat fingers could't reach the card. I put the card all the way through the slot)
Jackass: (Examined the receipt and saw that everything was fine)
Azlan: Satisfied?
Jackass: No, no. (Rambled incomprehensibly)
Azlan: (Sighed) What-ever. (Starting to walk out of the bus)
Jackass: Come back! Come back! Next time take the card out of the wallet!
Azlan: (Walked into the bus and rolled my eyes, making sure that everyone in the bus, all watching the incident anyway, saw it)

When the bus reached my stop, he didn't stop the bus on time and braked so suddenly. I don't know whether it was accidental or not, but if his intention was to throw me off balance, it didn't work. Instead, people on the bus let out some annoyed cries. As the doors opened, I let out a heavy sigh, rolled my eyes and shook my head disapprovingly. Hey, I'm a drama queen. I couldn't help it.

When I got out of the bus, I pretended to take a photo of the licence plate of the bus using my mobile phone. I noticed he didn't drive straight away, possibly getting pissed off at me. Well, you lost sucka.

Anyway, yesterday £1000 was missing from this safe that no one really knew about during the morning shift. If I had to take a guess I think the newly appointed manager did it. Just a hunch. There was at least one person present all the time at the reception so how could money be missing, unless of course that one person stole it. I heard the owner of the hotel is going to make us take lie detector tests. Cool!