The buses in my area are horribly unreliable. Especially the ones they use for college runs - they're generally old, overworked and falling apart at the seams. Kind of ironic that today we had a brand new bus for a change, and then that went and broke down. Had to wait half an hour for a minibus. Grr.

I suppose the weirdest (and certainly most annoying) experience I've had with a bus breaking down was (funnily enough) with a very old double-decker at college - as we were leaving at the end of the day we noticed the engine was having trouble ticking over in traffic, and the transmission was making grinding noises from underneath us. Sure enough, once we get to the city centre the driver tells us that the bus will probably break down completely before it reaches our stop, and that we had the choice of either taking our chances and hoping that the transmission didn't fail completely or wait for a replacement bus that would arrive in about 20 minutes. In the end some people stayed on the bus, whilst pretty much everyone else (myself included) got on the replacement bus. We were about halfway home, and then guess what? The damn replacement bus broke down going up a hill...

At that point I'm pretty pissed off so I just call my parents to ask for a lift home.

Later I find out that the first bus made it home fine, albeit slowly. :rolleyes: