I mentioned over on Scoble’s post that I had just missed him at the Seattle Central Library tonight: I had ducked in because I wanted to leave some feedback to Metro about a bad experience with my driver.

The driver came up to the stop in the middle lane and abruptly turned into the stop, ignoring the bike on the side of the road, which was then placed between the back half of the bus and the roadcurb, apparently with less than a foot of clearance, as I could see when I got off the bus. As I got off, I commented that he hadn’t left the bike much room.

Driver: “What bike?”

Me: “The bike back there that you cut off.”

Driver: “Things happen.”

Me: “THINGS HAPPEN???”

Driver: “Well, what should I have done?”

Me: “Well, maybe let the bike pass you instead of cutting it off.”

Driver: “If you say so.”

Me: “Yes, I say so!”

Rather irked at his behavior (there may have been a couple more lines in here), I said,

“Well, I’ll call your supervisor, and see what they think about it!”

The driver responded,

“Go ahead, they don’t care!”

The phrase “Get a life” was also used at some point. I’d like to point out that at this point, I was outside the bus, and he was driving alongside me with the door open so that he could continue yelling. There was another passenger waiting at the stop who agreed with me about the driver’s behavior, in more colorful terms than I had used.