[jjshabado]

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FWIW, I'll take the AC bus over transatlantic flights (coach) anytime.

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I agree with you overall, but only because 2 - 2.5 hours on the bus is better than 6 or 7 hours on a plane (plus hours of overhead at the airport).

I took the bus about 20 times overall and I'd say about half were fine. I either had no one sitting next to me, or somebody decent. I'd say 5 sucked because I was beside somebody that either smelled kind of bad, was wearing pretty dirty clothes, or was fat and took over my space.

I'd say I had 5 completely horrible experiences. One involved a 300 pound mentally retarded women who kept putting herself into weird positions on her aisle seat next to me, some of which involved her fat ass significantly in my space. She of course did not respond to any comments or pushing by me. One involved a guy that smelled so bad I wanted to vomit the whole trip, and occassionally started to gag. One involved having to pull the bus over and have the cops show up because a guy went crazy screaming and yelling up and down the aisle. Once involved a 4-5 hour trip wedged into a tiny space next to a fat man because the bus had a flat tire and we had to wait for a change. There's one other pretty bad trip, but I can't remember it. I think I've repressed it.

On top of all of that it was just a giant waste of time for me by the time I got to the PA, waited for a bus, got to AC, got the Jitney and of course did it all in reverse. Driving now gets me there a lot more comfortably in about 35% of the time.

Edit: There was the time I waited 3 hours at the Bus station (from 2:30ish to 5:30ish in the morning) in AC because I stupidly believed the posted schedule. Nobody bothered to tell me that they went to the casinos first and only showed up at the terminal if there was room. Or the time I waited half an hour in the freezing cold at Bally's because the bus driver pulled up then took her sweet ass time opening the door. This pissed off people in line who yelled at her. This scared her so she drove away without picking us up. She came back 20 minutes later and had to have another guy come out and make sure we calmly got on the bus.