>>213680533 (OP)
Seriously? Here you say Hello to the Bus driver when you get in and he says hello back and than you say merci and wish him a good day when you leave the bus. Politeness is free
>>213681607
But it mostly is. I haven't used public transport since I got a car. Most people who use it are poor, students, poor students, or work somewhere that is much faster to get to by train than by car during rush hour and where it's expensive or impossible to park (eg. downtown or the airport)
>>213681607
Even if I have to sit with shitty people I'd rather let some bus driver crawl through midday Chicago traffic than do it myself. Plus I work in the Loop and I'm not driving through that 5 days a week.