…and there’s a rather obnoxious man in a Liam Gallagher-esque who, the driver says, can’t travel on the bus as he’s “been spoken to 10 times by the Chief Inspector” and who isn’t being let travel as a result. The guy stepped onto the bus regardless and went upstairs.

The driver’s called him down and there’s been some verbal fisticuffs since. The intruder has made some kind of slur which the driver has deemed to be “a racial comment [the driver is black], and for that you must leave this bus”. Yer man still isn’t moving though, so the busdriver is refusing to go onwards until either the guy gets off or the following No.10 comes so that they can swap drivers.

It must be said, the driver is handling himself very well in the face of all this. It’s not a nice position at all to be in and lesser men would lose patience with the guy to the point of physical conflict.

Thankfully the guy has just finally gotten off and the busdriver is moving on ahead again. We get our first view of the offender: he’s a junkie, who clearly doesn’t have much of a clue where he is or the hold-up he’s just caused.

It’s stuff like this that make me wonder sometimes why some people would rather have an Ireland full of Irish people, despite their faults, rather than an Ireland that takes decent people like the very patient #10 busdriver who does a good service to society.

Nonetheless, the bus, half-empty with people who had places they needed a bus to take them more quickly, moves on.