Bangkok's streets come with large variety of buses. You had the little green guys (always hit my head in those) the brutal red non air conditioned buses, sort of out of the dark ages of transport. As your hopping on these things they are quite often pulling away, when you need to get off they sort of slow down allowing you time to do a Joe Mannix type roll out onto the street to the sorta safety of the dirty sidewalk curb. These red and very cheap buses are very noisy, old, dirty and hot. I guess you get what you pay for.
Joe Mannix In Action - The Show Opening Credits
Then you have a wide variety of a/c buses going to everywhere all the time when traffic permits. Today I was trapped on one of these long a/c bus rides while heading to Chinatown for some food. I went during rush hour 6pm or so, must have spent 2 hours on the bus (usually the distance I travelled would have taken 10-15 minutes). Now an a/c bus sounds kind of nice doesn't it. The problem was not so much the 2 hour ride but the freezing fricking a/c in the bus. Damn it, they could have hung meat in the bus today, the place was a bloody freezer. That is quite a common problem here, when the a/c works it REALLY WORKS. I might need to bring a nice Canadian down-filled jacket with touque next time I jump in one of these things.
In the past I have been in taxis with wet hair that were like air conditioned wind tunnels, got sick afterwards. Then sometimes you have a/c buses that are broiling, that has an air conditioning system that hardly works at all. Can they not find a happy middle ground?
Joe Mannix In Action - The Show Opening Credits
Then you have a wide variety of a/c buses going to everywhere all the time when traffic permits. Today I was trapped on one of these long a/c bus rides while heading to Chinatown for some food. I went during rush hour 6pm or so, must have spent 2 hours on the bus (usually the distance I travelled would have taken 10-15 minutes). Now an a/c bus sounds kind of nice doesn't it. The problem was not so much the 2 hour ride but the freezing fricking a/c in the bus. Damn it, they could have hung meat in the bus today, the place was a bloody freezer. That is quite a common problem here, when the a/c works it REALLY WORKS. I might need to bring a nice Canadian down-filled jacket with touque next time I jump in one of these things.
In the past I have been in taxis with wet hair that were like air conditioned wind tunnels, got sick afterwards. Then sometimes you have a/c buses that are broiling, that has an air conditioning system that hardly works at all. Can they not find a happy middle ground?
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