I am on my first Dublin Bus since February 2020, and it’s just me and the Bus Nutter. In a way, I’m quite comforted to know his kind has survived Covid.
At the same time, I probably would have preferred not to hear somebody else’s extremely random playlist — Huey Lewis and The News and Michael Jackson, anybody played aloud on a very poor quality mobile phone on my very first day back on the buses.
It’s a Catch 22 really: it was only when he started playing his music through his phone that I realised the loud conversation he was conducting wasn’t actually a phone call.
And that was how I could tell he was the Bus Nutter. When you use public transport as much as I do, you come across a fair few Bus Nutters.
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