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Insane Shuttle Woman
My company offers its employees shuttle service to and from several subway and train stations in the area. It's very convenient.
I take a shuttle to the Ruggles station, which is the nearest one; the trip takes ten minutes, and I can catch my train there.
But one of the shuttle drivers seems to be losing her mind.
She's a scary driver. Goes really fast, with violent lane changes. Passengers often gossip about her after we get off. We don't dare talk much in front of her, because she's so damned scary. She's a very angry-seeming woman.
In the past few weeks she's had a new thing: demanding to see the work ID of every passenger. That's official policy, I believe, but nobody except her has ever enforced it.
And she enforces it with a vengeance. She actually stops the shuttle, turns around, and refuses to drive until each passenger shows her their ID.
Last night she really topped herself, and things got a little surreal. I was on the shuttle, having carefully shown her my ID, when a woman got on. She's a regular; one of those extremely pretty, vivacious, friendly older women that everyone knows (or wants to). But she'd forgotten her ID.
The driver stopped the shuttle in the middle of the parking lot, and demanded to see her ID.
The passenger explained that she didn't have it with her, and she'd already thrown away her temporary paper ID (since it was the end of the day).
A number of other passengers (including me) spoke up on the passenger's behalf at that point. We all knew her; some of us worked with her. And the driver knew her too. Nonetheless the driver simply sat there for a couple of minutes, fuming and blocking traffic, and finally announced that she'd have to call her headquarters.
Driver: *bzzt* "Base, I have a passenger without an ID."
(pause)
Base: *bzzt* "Is she a regular?"
Passengers: "YES!"
Driver: (long pause) *bzzt* "I don't know."
(Which was bullshit; she was just being a deliberate bitch.)
Base: *bzzt* "Let her stay, but tell her it's a one-time courtesy ride."
And damned if the bitch didn't turn around and say exactly that, in the snottiest tone imaginable. The passenger was quite nice about it - she was actually pretty amused - but everyone else was amazed and pissed off. The driver had made us sit there in the parking lot for five minutes while she acted like a spiteful bitch.
Fortunately I made my train, but just barely.
I take a shuttle to the Ruggles station, which is the nearest one; the trip takes ten minutes, and I can catch my train there.
But one of the shuttle drivers seems to be losing her mind.
She's a scary driver. Goes really fast, with violent lane changes. Passengers often gossip about her after we get off. We don't dare talk much in front of her, because she's so damned scary. She's a very angry-seeming woman.
In the past few weeks she's had a new thing: demanding to see the work ID of every passenger. That's official policy, I believe, but nobody except her has ever enforced it.
And she enforces it with a vengeance. She actually stops the shuttle, turns around, and refuses to drive until each passenger shows her their ID.
Last night she really topped herself, and things got a little surreal. I was on the shuttle, having carefully shown her my ID, when a woman got on. She's a regular; one of those extremely pretty, vivacious, friendly older women that everyone knows (or wants to). But she'd forgotten her ID.
The driver stopped the shuttle in the middle of the parking lot, and demanded to see her ID.
The passenger explained that she didn't have it with her, and she'd already thrown away her temporary paper ID (since it was the end of the day).
A number of other passengers (including me) spoke up on the passenger's behalf at that point. We all knew her; some of us worked with her. And the driver knew her too. Nonetheless the driver simply sat there for a couple of minutes, fuming and blocking traffic, and finally announced that she'd have to call her headquarters.
Driver: *bzzt* "Base, I have a passenger without an ID."
(pause)
Base: *bzzt* "Is she a regular?"
Passengers: "YES!"
Driver: (long pause) *bzzt* "I don't know."
(Which was bullshit; she was just being a deliberate bitch.)
Base: *bzzt* "Let her stay, but tell her it's a one-time courtesy ride."
And damned if the bitch didn't turn around and say exactly that, in the snottiest tone imaginable. The passenger was quite nice about it - she was actually pretty amused - but everyone else was amazed and pissed off. The driver had made us sit there in the parking lot for five minutes while she acted like a spiteful bitch.
Fortunately I made my train, but just barely.