I just took a bus to the grocery store. I take the bus from the very end of the route and when you arrive at the bus stop, you usually find the driver taking a well-earned break.
The driver I rode with today is one I have been seeing for years. He is a self-confessed clean-freak and I often find him wiping down surfaces with Lysol disinfectant and spraying air-freshener throughout the bus. He himself is always immaculate – even down to his spotlessly-white driving gloves! – and he lines his seat with bus schedules to keep his pants clean. (Another bus driver I know always lines the seat – “you never know who’s been sitting in it, or what they’ve been doing in it!”)
Today, he finished his ritual by emptying the garbage pail in the trash bin at the stop. Several of us were waiting to board the bus and kidded him a little about the cleaning – to which he jokingly responded, “I don’t know how you lot live with each other. I’d like to be up in space where everything is sterile!”
But I have to say – his bus smelled just lovely:)
