I'm with stupid

I was stopped at a bus stop downtown. My doors were open and I was loading passengers. A woman comes up to the front of the bus.

Woman: Do you stop here?
Me: Umm. Yeah. This is a bus stop which is why I have my doors open and am letting people on the bus.
Woman: So I can get off here?
Me: Yes, you can.
Woman: Okay, thanks. I just wanted to be sure.

The stop after that isn't for another two and a half blocks. As I start through the intersection, I hear the next stop chime. Not even two seconds later, I hear the buzzing sound which indicates someone is trying to open the rear doors. I look in my mirror and see a man trying to get off the back of the bus. Another passenger informs him that the doors won't open while the bus is moving. The next intersection, I'm stopped at a red light. Once again the man tried to activate the back doors. The passenger behind him tells him that the doors won't open until the green light is on and we're only stopped at a red light not the actual bus stop. At the next intersection, I'm once again stopped at another red light. Guess what? The man tried to open the doors again. I get on the PA and say "Would you mind waiting until we get to the stop? We're at a red light here, I can't let you off the bus." Once we pull into the stop, I activate the doors and no one gets off. "Sir, this is the stop." I say. Dead silence. I flip the switch to actually open the rear doors so they'll be wide open without having to push the bar to open them. He still doesn't get off the bus. "Where do you need to go?" I ask the man. "Oh, I don't want this stop. I was just checking to see if I could get off the bus when it wasn't at a stop." he replies. AARRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On my next trip a man comes up and asks me how far down the street I go. "I only go as far as Main st." I reply. "Well how far down is that?" he asks. "About 10-15 blocks" I reply. "How many blocks?" he asks in a patrionizingly slow voice (as if you were talking to a deaf child!) "About 10-15 blocks" I reply in the same kind of voice. About 10-15 blocks later, I announce that this is my last stop before I turn around. The man comes back up to the front of the bus and remarks "I only wanted to know how many blocks we had to go. Why didn't you tell me?" "Sir, I previously said 10-15 blocks. I didn't know the exact number. I'm sorry." I say. "Bitch! You don't need to be so rude!" he says.

On my return trip, I see a firetruck and an ambulance in the last bus stop on the street before I turn the corner. Since someone rang the bell, I get on the PA and announce that I'll be unable to pull into the bus stop so I'll be stopping half a block before the stop. Most everyone gets off the bus which is unusual, as most people tend to wait until I'm around the corner. A man who had gotten off the bus comes to the front doors and asks how to get down the street that I will be turning on. I tell him to hop on my bus because that's where I'm going. He replies "But I thought you couldn't go through because of the emergency vehicles?" "No, I'll be able to pass them, they're only taking up one lane of a four lane road, I just wasn't able to pull into the bus stop." I reply. "You sure you can make it by them?" he asks. "Yes, I'm sure" I confirm. By the time I've turned the corner and pulled into the bus stop most of the passengers who had disembarked at the last stop have walked to my stop. "Why did you kick us all off the bus if you could make it past the firetruck? We had to walk a whole block! You're a liar and a terrible person!" they all yelled in unison. Okay, I may have slightly exagerated that but that was the general gist of it.

I herby declare November 2nd first annual idiot day!