Killer buses terrorise motorists

I hate buses; they're shit. They're rubbish for getting from A to B, unless you're happy to:

• Walk 10 minutes to A;
• Wait 20 minutes at A;
• Pay some extortionate rate to sit next to some smelly twat on a filthy seat;
• Accelerate really hard then stop really suddenly every 200 metres for 7 miles;
• Change half way through the journey and do it all again until you finally reach good old B (by which time, you've either been killed, you've lost the will to live, or you smell so badly that you have to turn straight round and go home).

So no, I don't use them. But, as a motorist, I still encounter them on the roads. Now, back in January, my Cyclists and busdrivers post went into my hatred of, well just about everybody, but cyclists and busdrivers in particular, so you're spared from another diatribe here. However, having thought that bus companies could do no more to piss me off, the wonder First Manchester company have managed it with the introuction of this fucker:

This is what's known as a "bendy bus". It's essentially two single-decker buses that appear to have been involved in a rear-end shunt and have been repaired with some elastic bands and duct tape. The bendy bus is twice as long as a standard bus, and probably twice as long as anything else you'd see on the road. They're a fucking waste of space and a danger to other road users: you come to overtake one, thinking it's a normal bus, then as you get alongside it, you realise that it's one of these fuckers. Not content with taking up half the width of the road with bloody empty buslanes, the bus companies want to take over the entire length of the road too.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being behind one of these, which was following a standard single-decker bus, both devoid of passengers, both operating the same route (that'd be the Number 8 from Bolton to Manchester), operated by First Manchester.

Wankers.