I would like to preface this article by saying that I am, in fact very thankful to have a bus service available on campus because I would literally probably die without it (and also be perpetually late). With that said though, in the typical ungrateful college student manner, I also have some complaints about said bus service. So I present the 10 worst things about riding campus buses!

1. When you miss your bus

There's nothing like scurrying to the bus stop just to see your bus take off without you. Then you stand at the stop thinking about how you could have already been there by now if you were just one minute earlier.

2. The smells

Sometimes it smells like weird food and sometimes it smells like armpits but no matter what, the bus always has some sort of smell and it's usually NOT good

3. When the bus is packed

Catching a bus during a peak time of day is kind of awful because everyone just wants to go home so you resort yourself to being packed on the bus which kind of seems like a can of anchovies and you develop a sudden case of claustrophobia.

4. When there's only one bus running the route

If there's only one bus running on the route you need, I hope you've got about half an hour because you're not going anywhere fast. Some days I wonder if I spend more time waiting on buses than I do actually sitting in class

5. Having to stand on the bus

Standing on the bus is already one of the most awful ways to get around, but being a short person and having to stand on the bus is probably the worst. Trying to hang on for your life is kind of hard when you can barely reach the bars without standing on your tip toes.

6. A crazy driving bus driver

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes I'll just be sitting on a bus minding my own business watching the driver swerve crazily around pedestrians or other cars and I just can't help thinking to myself: "This is it, this is how I die"

7. When your bus driver decides to stop and take a 10-minute break at the *worst* possible time

It never fails when you're already running late and then you make it a couple of stops into where you're going and then ~suddenly~ the driver just leaves the bus. So you're just sitting there like.... ok...... until the driver comes back thinking about how late you're going to be

8. When someone is hogging a perfectly good seat with their backpack

There are just some people out there that, when they see the bus is starting to fill up have no concern about the would-be-available seat that their precious backpack is taking up. In the words of Stephanie Tanner: how rude!

9. Manspreading

Ahh, manspreading, the seemingly less nefarious cousin of hogging a seat with your backpack. You'd really like to sit down in that open seat, but to do so would require you to also basically sit on some dude's lap so you're out of luck again

10. Not having time to wait for the bus

As much as I don't like basically running all the way across campus to show up to my next class sweaty and out of breath, sometimes it's unavoidable. Like when the bus is 12 minutes from the stop and I've only got 15 minutes to get to class