I ride the same bus route to work every morning.

It’s an Express Bus so it doesn’t have a lot of stops to hit before we get to the freeway. On this quick route all you’ll see are the same cookie cutter houses and the same dogs barking in the same spots in their yards and the same cats looking all offended when the bus goes by.

I haven’t figured that one out yet.

Anyway.

About the only change that happens on this route happens is during the summer when the regular drivers go on vacation and we get a new driver almost every morning.

There’s no problem there, we don’t run late, no one is getting lost along the way.It’s pretty uneventful- like it is the rest of the year. But every once and awhile a driver will go by an exit or get on the freeway at the wrong on-ramp.

 I mean, if you haven’t driven a route for awhile you’d do the same.

 It’s not a big deal.

What is a big deal and a weird thing is the way the Passengers react.

If it’s a woman who is doing the driving the Passengers will start screaming and I mean SCREAMING  ” You’re suppose to turn HERE….DRIVER TURN HERE….DRIVER IF YOU DON’T MOVE OVER NOW YOU’RE GOING TO MISS THE TURN. DRIVER!”It never fails and it sounds so obnoxious- I mean it’s one thing for little kids to screech- but when adults do it?

Annoying.

What’s even worse is the way these same people react when the Driver is a man.

We’ve blown by exits. gone down the wrong streets and does anyone say a word a mile down the road  when they THINK the Driver is going to miss the stop or when they board the bus halfway across town the way they do with the female drivers?

No.

Not a peep,  not a sound.

I figure it must be a Girl Thing,