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PSA: Never, ever use Greyhound in Texas.

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In my limited experience with Greyhound his description sound fairly accurate to my ride out of Newark a few years back.
 
Originally posted by: Gilligansdingy
Why didnt family or friends pick you up in Dallas? Longview is only 2 hours away. I make the trip all the time.
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I have friends in Dallas, all of which go to my school and would be making the trip. However, I was cutting the time really close and all my friends were planning to go the day before.
 
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
Originally posted by: LS20
Let me say that I've taken the greyhound in Texas multiple times... been to the Dallas stations, Austin stations, and Houston stations

YES, Dallas and Houston is absolutely full of ghetto "undesirables". If you go to the Austin station, however, its largely empty, everyone is quiet.

My last ride was from Houston to Dallas. The 2 people behind me (girl and guy) were sharing drug and prison stories - each had done MULTIPLE sentences. The people around me were bouncing from city to city... not exactly suburban model citizens... but you know what? I DONT CARE. It doesnt bother me. THEY dont bother me. Ive never been hassled on a ride ever, except for bums OUTSIDE of the stations asking for change.

No, I would never send my little 14 year old sister on a solo ride on a Greyhound, but what do you, as a teenager/adult male, have to worry? In the mass of the "ghetto" thugs, there are also hard working families who cant afford or choose not to fly. I can drive my sports car if I wanted to but I chose Greyhound. Those people may dress and talk ghetto, but why should I judge them on appearance?
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"Drain on society"
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Your attitude makes you just as bad as them.
 
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
Originally posted by: Gilligansdingy
Why didnt family or friends pick you up in Dallas? Longview is only 2 hours away. I make the trip all the time.
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I have friends in Dallas, all of which go to my school and would be making the trip. However, I was cutting the time really close and all my friends were planning to go the day before.
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Tell the truth, you don't have any friends. Why would anyone befriend such a bigot? I especially enjoyed your rant about the one legged war veteran. Someday maybe you'll grow up.

BTW, I recommended that you hitchike; however, I take back that reccomendation. The reason for that is that you appear to be a xenophobic mamma's boy. I assume you called mamma to complain about your big, scary trip and then posted here to ease your overpowering anxiety.

Try not to be afraid of the world mamma's boy! Get out more!

 
Originally posted by: LS20
Let me say that I've taken the greyhound in Texas multiple times... been to the Dallas stations, Austin stations, and Houston stations

YES, Dallas and Houston is absolutely full of ghetto "undesirables". If you go to the Austin station, however, its largely empty, everyone is quiet.

My last ride was from Houston to Dallas. The 2 people behind me (girl and guy) were sharing drug and prison stories - each had done MULTIPLE sentences. The people around me were bouncing from city to city... not exactly suburban model citizens... but you know what? I DONT CARE. It doesnt bother me. THEY dont bother me. Ive never been hassled on a ride ever, except for bums OUTSIDE of the stations asking for change.

No, I would never send my little 14 year old sister on a solo ride on a Greyhound, but what do you, as a teenager/adult male, have to worry? In the mass of the "ghetto" thugs, there are also hard working families who cant afford or choose not to fly. I can drive my sports car if I wanted to but I chose Greyhound. Those people may dress and talk ghetto, but why should I judge them on appearance?
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So you don't mind when people blare rap and hip&hop on a bus with lots of profanities obviously disturbing people on the bus?
 
Originally posted by: uberman
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
Originally posted by: Gilligansdingy
Why didnt family or friends pick you up in Dallas? Longview is only 2 hours away. I make the trip all the time.
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I have friends in Dallas, all of which go to my school and would be making the trip. However, I was cutting the time really close and all my friends were planning to go the day before.
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Tell the truth, you don't have any friends. Why would anyone befriend such a bigot? I especially enjoyed your rant about the one legged war veteran. Someday maybe you'll grow up.

BTW, I recommended that you hitchike; however, I take back that reccomendation. The reason for that is that you appear to be a xenophobic mamma's boy. I assume you called mamma to complain about your big, scary trip and then posted here to ease your overpowering anxiety.

Try not to be afraid of the world mamma's boy! Get out more!
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A guy complaining on the internet about a guy complaining on the internet. It's perfect.
 
While I may generally dislike the type of people you have described, I think you sound like a jerk and a loser in your post.
 
Should have pulled out the Frequent Greyhounder Card, they could have upgraded you to First Class, or at the very least Business.
 
Originally posted by: bennylong
I took Greyhound from SF to LA once and will never do it again. How come they only stop at Carl's JR?
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You are so correct. I did a trip from Washington DC to San Francisco, CA. It was 4 days. The person next to me and I just begged that they would stop at a grocery store, the food choices were terrible. I'm white and the person next to me was a black female. Please take note, I'm stating this for the OP's information.

She was great, she was an English teacher who'd taught English to helicopter pilots in Iran. This was in 1979 and she had been recently evacuated from Tehran when the hostages were taken. She was a neat lady who introduced me to Camembert cheese. She was a major repository of world events. I in turn introduced her to orange juice spiked with rum. If you're on a bus for 4 days, you must think about sleeping meds.

 
Dress styles change, I don't care what anyone wears but I can see his point about the
music, 4-8 year olds do not need to be hearing blasting vulgarity from a boombox.
the driver should have warned them once then remove them from the bus ( with refund)
if they do not comply. How about I bring a Dean martin CD with a 100 watt box and blast
it so everyone can hear the fun!!!
 
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
The differently-abled person: This guy had no leg above his right knee . . .
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pic? 😛

Yeah-my one experience with Greyhound was not pleasant, though nowhere nearly as bad as yours.
 
To answer everyone's "you are a giant prick" posts:

Yes, I honestly believe that I am a better person than the vast majority of the people on that bus. All men are created equal. What you make of yourself is a different matter. I think that I have made myself a better person than they have.

And no, I don't see the irony in me saying that I'm a better person than they are yet posting such an obviously bigoted message(therefore making myself a bad person).
 
I've known people who rode greyhound from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. From what they told me, I'd rather walk. You're not a bigot for wanting to stay out of the ghetto.
 
Took Greyhound from Chicago to Urbana-Champaign, also from Blacksburg (Virginia Tech) back to Fairfax county.

Terrible, will never try that again (those two times I was desperate for a ride back). Experience agrees with the OP. It's pretty... bad.
 
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
As some of you know, I needed to get from Dallas to Longview yesterday. I entertained hitchhiking but eventually settled on the bus.

It was a terrible experience. I should have known- the type of people that use the cheapest public transportation available are not exactly ideal busmates. The station was nice and new, but poorly run.

Before I go any further, let me explain that I don't see everyone equally. I believe that all men are created equal, but whether they make a success of themselves and do something with their life is an important factor. I'm not racist. I judge a person by their quality as a person without prejudice for race or other factors.

That said, the station was full of ghetto black kids with their pants around their knees(literally) yelling unintelligible gibberish at each other, decorated at small intervals with profanity. Most of them were following the 5-pound-minimum rule for fake silver jewelry. The rest of the crowd's majority was either white trash or young Mexican couples with babies and little kids.
Note: I use the word 'black' because apparently 'African American' isn't politically correct anymore.

In addition there were:

The old black man cussing out employees about how they already paid their ticket in the last city and that greyhound was a government conspiracy designed to antagonize homeless old men.

The differently-abled person: This guy had no leg above his right knee and used crutches. He was a member of the first crowd I mentioned, but the six pounds of fake silver jewelry didn't seem to faze him even in his sadly-diminished physical capacity. He had taken the rubber pads off of the bottom of his metal crutches so that everyone would hear him coming.. and presumably have pity? I don't know. Almost every last person there was a class-D attention whore. He would wave his short leg around all the time to get people to look at him. Okay, you kind of pulled a short straw with the leg, sorry. But do you really have to try and make everyone feel bad for your and draw attention to yourself?

The white trash pseudo-artist. White kid trying to fit in with the first group. Giant pillow jacket that came down to his knees, yet his 6" silver belt buckle was still visible below it, conspicuously letting everyone know that yes, his pants were a grant total of 14" above the tops of his shoes. I sat across and behind this guy on the bus. He had a notebook full of drawings in page protectors. These were the kind of drawings that you see carved into high school desks in the detention room. I had the pleasure of watching his progress on masterpiece that I'm sure he titled "Flaming noseless evil clown head with forked tongue and dreadlocks". He must have been just practicing, though, as it was actually copied out of another scrap he had with him. He emphatically assured his busmates that he had a tattoo gun with him and that he could in fact tattoo any of his evil clown designs on them when they got to the next stop.
The respectable but financially hurting old white couple. There were two of these. Kept to themselves mostly.
The young white people that hadn't realized that greyhound was going to suck. This was myself and another young couple going to the same destination I was. They were really cool and the guy ended up giving me some music recommendations after checking out my zune library.

Several of the youth in the first group took it upon themselves to blast rap and hiphop from the back of the bus, singing along. The bus driver told them twice to stop, but they continued to play it loud enough for even the people at the front of the bus to be disturbed. The music was filled with foul language(I stopped counting at 100 f-words) I don't care about other people using profanity, that's your own style of expressing yourself, fine. The reason I cared was because there were several knee-high children around and they were literally shouting profanity while everyone else was trying to sleep.

As for the greyhound company themselves, they were completely inept. I arrived carrying around 200lbs of stuff. However, most employees found that it was easier to tell me to go to the first place that came to mind rather than think for half a second and tell me the right place to go. Most of the employees were rude. There was one nice guy. I noticed that they had great bilingual service: English and Ebonics. Every employee was fluent in both. There was one trilingual employee who spoke Spanish also and he looked like he was doing quite a good job with service.

Eventually I got settled into the right line after about 45 minutes of carrying my stuff around the crowded terminal. Right after I got into line, an announcement over the PA that the bus would be 1.5 hours late. WTF? 1.5 hours? How does this happen? When I had checked in when I got there they didn't say the bus was late. Nothing about it. Then 30 minutes later they announced the bus was 1.5 hours late. How does that happen? How do you not know when a bus is running 1.5 hours behind schedule? The bus actually ended up being 2 hours late, and we somehow lost another 30 minutes on the road. Totally inept and mismanaged, thats all I can say.


Enjoy flaming, as I'm obviously a bigot.
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Isn't there something in the Bible about not judging people?
 
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