On a rainy October morning in DC, I missed my bus stop. The driver doubled back through several blocks of downtown DC and dropped me at my building, because “you smile and you always say good morning.”
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You never know when simple kindness might pay off! This entry made me smile. <3
You shouldn’t need a reward for being kind. but i see what you are saying and i agree =]
this would have made my week!
Kindness can be rewarding.
Nice to see it when good karma comes back around!
That bus driver would be getting a basket of fresh baked christmas cookies from me!
I agree, I would do something like that to make the bus drivers day.
Kickass bus driver is kickass.
so much awesome!
Best IMMD moment ever.
THIS is why this site exists. The driver made your day because you always make theirs
Treat a person like an actual human being and it pays off.
simply awesome. yay kindness! notice how many thumbs up it has?
IMMD to read your IMMD entry. Thats really neat
7 envious bus drivers gave this a thumbs down…
Or 7 people who were on the bus and late because of the turn-back. But I give it a thumbs-up!
Polite people ftw (:
aww, polite Metrobus drivers are hard to come by. I’m used to seeing them shove their way into traffic, and when I saw one actually waiting to be let into the line of traffic, I let him in and he waved at me to say thanks. It’s nice to know not all Metrobus drivers are jerks who use their enormous vehicles to push smaller vehicles around
If bus and truck drivers waited for 4 wheeler’s to let them in all the time they would die of starvation before reaching their destination.
I would give this a thumbs up, but the thumbs up count is 1337, so I’ll just leave it at that.
Who are the miserable people who gave this a thumbs down?
Wow, a DC Metro driver that’s actually nice! Nice story.
So it DOES pay to be nice! Sweet.
love it when good Karma comes back. Good for you for being a rare entity in a delf absorbed world. :]
oops *self
So awesome. People like you make my day.
This is the material reason to be nice to people. Still good.
I thought the material reason to be nice to people is for the sake of being nice, not so you might get ‘payoff.’
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I don’t think the driver backtracked several blocks, I think it was several buildings.
Regardless, it was still nice of the driver to do this.
This one made me smile for sure
High Five!
My first day of school i got on the wrong school bus after class and ended up on the entire wrong side of town. The bus driver drove me all the home.
I work for a city bus agency and we have a few (very few) drivers that would do something this nice. Most agencies would reprimand a driver for going off-route, too, which makes it doubly amazing. This post made my day!
Pays to be friendly ^^
AND THEN HE DROVE OFF AGAIN JUST TO BE A DOUCHE.
But you are apparently very rude to all the other bus passangers to let him do that rather than just walking a few blocks back.
you, sir (or mam) are the epitome of my tag…..and I thank you
While I am sure that you really appreciated the driver’s kind gesture, I also have to wonder about the other people on the bus who had places that they needed to be (on time) or who were just tired after a long day and wanted to get home and relax. Traffic in the District sucks pretty much all the time, but especially in rush hour, and I imagine that a detour of even just a few blocks probably added a good 10-15 minutes to everyone else’s commute.
“you smile and you always say good morning…unlike all the other douches behind me.”
*uncomfortable silence in the bus*
I don’t know if it’s the beer, but I have tears in my eyes.
As a daily rider of DC Metro busses in the downtown area, I can say if that was a bus I was on or waiting for, I would be effing pissed. I was 20 minutes late to work today because my bus showed up 40 minutes late, ven WITH the new GPS “next bus” system. GRRR.
Undisputed “awwwwww!” of the day! Just goes to show what a smile and a kind word can do.