Chicken with a BUS!

These god damn city buses think they have free reign here in Hartford and I’m sick of it.  I’ve been cut off so many times by the city buses that I’ve lost count.  Well today, I got a little revenge and almost a major accident.  I was third in row at a major light in Downtown Hartford.  There is a bus drop off on the right hand side and a bus driver had just let off a bus load of people.  It looked like he wanted to cut in front of me as he angled his bus appropriately.  The problem is he had no blinker and truthfully there was really no room for him to “cut” in.  The line behind me stretched four to five cars and I figured he’d let us pass then swoop in behind us.  NOPE!  The light turned green and he started to inch his way forward thinking I would let him in.  Well guess what, I didn’t!  It was on; he was inching I was moving and old fashioned game of chicken WITH A BUS!  Bring it on.

He kept coming and I kept going and soon we were inches away.  No backing away this time I thought as I pressed down a little harder on the gas.  He finally slammed on his brakes and my left front mirror was centimeters away from the corner of the bus.  He also let on his horn as I smiled and wailed on my horn back.  I start my right turn on the light and this asshole still has his horn down, I almost come to a stop, turn back and flip this nice bus driver a “you’re number one” sign with the center most finger on my hand.  He lets off the horn and then gives me another long beep as I drive off with a smile on my face triumphantly.  I hear the horn almost the entire way down to the next light and in my rear view mirror see him go through the intersection.  I flip him off again, he probably doesn’t see it but I do it anyway.

I finally won.  I know it doesn’t mean anything in the big scheme of things but now I know they’ll stop if you just keep going and you know what this lets me know to challenge these asshole bus drivers because they don’t own the roads.  They should abide by the same rules us “small” folks do.  I don’t give a shit if you’re 100 times bigger than me or if you’re a state vehicle.  You don’t own the roads and I’ll play chicken with any of you dicks!  Maybe it’s me but these buses need to stop thinking they own the streets!!!