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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
It used to be dead simple: Pink = Yay; Blue = D’oh!
Let me explain: for once, this isn’t actually me being camp. At my bus stop, there are different buses that go past that go to different places and are run by different companies. The 67, 68 and 100 are run by First Direct (Pink buses) and go past Salford Uni (where I work) and then to the City Centre (where I go out). The M10 is run by Big Blue Buses (funnily enough they’re blue, and the company really is called that), and they go a different (and dangerous and scary and longer) route towards the City Centre.
It used to be dead simple: I would buy a pass for First buses because they could get me to work and town. The formula was very simple: see Pink bus = Yay! I can get on that; see Blue bus = D’oh! Can’t get on that. This was always very useful when tired, hungover or spectaclesless as you could just pull any pink bus and know that it went the right way.
However, this is no longer the case, as First (Pink buses) has launched a rival to the M10 service run by Big Blue Buses (Blue Buses) called the 10 service. This runs exactly the same route as the M10 and is basically aggressive competition. What really annoys me is that the 10 service is pink. Every time a 10 is headed towards the bus stop, I get all excited that my bus has arrived, and am then upset and irritated when I see it’s a 10, not a 100, 68 or 67 and it hasn’t really arrived at all. So Blue still = d’oh, but Pink now only = maybe yay!
My life just got one more complication added to it…
Have fun,
M
Current mood: Mmmkay (Good for a Monday!).
Current music: An unknown classical piece is going through my head atm....