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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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 Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: Is putting your thumb out for a bus a western thing? |
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| Because I seem to be the only one to do it. |
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neandergirl
Joined: 23 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:15 am Post subject: |
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| I'm 'western' but I'd never put my thumb out for a bus. In the 'western' part I'm from, that's just for hitchhiking. |
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oldtactics
Joined: 18 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| Definitely not common in Ontario, I've never seen anyone do that. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Stop putting your thumb out. They don't sail pass. Just give the driver 'the death stare'. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| The thumb is for hitch hiking. I've never done this, nor seen this done in Ireland where I'm pretty sure you are from. You wave buses down. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I just put my hand up or wave. i never heard of thumbing a bus before. |
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livinginkunsan
Joined: 02 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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no thumbs up here either.. maybe you are mistaken it for another lifestyle choice  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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I am from canada and have travelled across the states as well several times and I never ever have seen anyone put a thumb out to a bus!
waving and flailing one's entire arms, all fingers and palm wide open, is a way to get a bus to stop in some places i've been |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Putting out the thumb = desperation. Don't go there (unless you really are desperate). |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| No matter what I do it drives past me if there in no Koreans waiting for it. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Why did you show me that? Now we have to be enemies. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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I just put my hand out and kinda wave it around.
When I first got to Korea, I've had a few buses just zoom right by without even slowing down. Then I learned you should hail them like a taxi. Sure enough, the driver swerves over 3 lanes cutting off cars to a "rolling stop" so I can pace with the bus, hop on, before he hits the gas. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Despite the feeling you are riding a party bus, I like buses here. In London, bus drivers seem to think they are gods gift to the road - and they'll rarely wait for anyone clearly waving to the driver, or anyone who just missed the stop by a few seconds, or anyone who forgot to get off at the stop by a mere few seconds. Granted, there are lots of idiots in the UK and having to deal with UK school kids must be a terrible ordeal - but it does seem to go both ways, the drivers quite often too are assholes. |
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Jandar
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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