Today I bumped into a friend who is studying in UTAR. He is of those who strives to save money as much as he could. Much like my own boyfriend, in fact, who analyzed ways of managing and saving money and taught me good financial lessons that no one could.

Okay that’s to set the story background. Anyway, he asked me where and how was I going back. I told him either I take a bus or take a taxi. ‘Wah, taxi? So expensive?’, he said. Then, a Metrobus fatefully passed by. He said, take this lah, RM0.90 nia, save you a lot of money compared to taking taxi.

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Spilling my guts to my blog about how I feel about Metrobus is much easier than voicing it out in real life. Simply put, because he’s one of those people who save diligently, my sense doesn’t make sense to him. Safety (they speed like they’re rempiting) and sanitary (I don’t wish to sit on seats used to ferry herpes-carrying old farts to Chow Kit) comes first for me. So I just discreetly changed the topic till the bus drove off.

Several Metrobus passed by and he was still pretty disapproving when I told him I am gonna take a taxi to get to the LRT later. After some persuasion, I said: ‘Alah, okay lah, I take the next oncoming bus okay?’.

As fate would have it, Metrobus didn’t came. LEN SENG bus did. He said enthusiastically: ‘Even better! 70 sen nia! Cheap!’. Mind you, this particular Len Seng… It looks like a 20 year old metal who, back then, didn’t have good technology to frame it up nicely. So it’s practically clanking metal on wheels. And when the bus passed by each potential customer, they all grimaced and shaked their heads, refusing the bus driver’s offer to ferry them to Wangsa Maju.

Damn you TARCians, so lucky lah. Don’t have a friend standing beside you who disproves of money wastage pestering you to get the cheapest transport possible. Die lah, it’s shit scary to be the only 3 passengers on-board. Damn, I think if one of them disappeared into thin air or starting to sprout maggots from their nostrils or ear holes or via anal style I also can’t run. It’s those type of buses where horror stories love to pick on, get me now? NO ONE in their right mind would have boarded it. Why the heck did I?

Ah, I know…

Peer pressure.And a bit of shame.

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On an afterthought… Why the fuck didn’t I take RapidKL? I just bought an effing RM135 Monthly Travel Card giving me free access to any of RapidKL’s services! Boo hoo. T.T

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