Entire Bus Forced To Listen To Vanilla Chit Chat Between Two People Who Met Through Friends Once

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT

One of the Diamantina’s most tedious bus routes has been exceptionally excruciating this morning, after a group of commuters were forced to listen to a brain dead dull conversation.

The 889 bus from Betoota Lakes to Central Station is widely considered an absolute punish, given it stops 46 times within a 10km journey, and is often packed in with Irish expats who spend the commute loudly facetiming friends back home.

And this morning, the 889 was particularly annoying, after two people who met through friends once bumped into each other, and proceeded to have a conversation across the aisle.

Dressed in caramel chinos and a gingham button up, Brett Faraway (35) from the Lakes spotted a friend of a friend, and decided instead of just giving a polite nod, would use the entire 38 minute commute to re-run over a chat they had at a BBQ weeks ago.

“Hey, ahhhh, Jen right, we met at Caroline’s baby shower?” piped up Brett, as he sat down on a lumpy spare seat.

“Brent, yeah hey? Sorry didn’t recognise you in your work stuff…” awkwardly replied Jen, as she pulled an AirPod out from her ear, slightly huffed that she couldn’t continue to listen to her fav podcast.

“What’s going on with you?”, she continued, much to the dismay of fellow passengers.

“Ahh just work, ya know. The weekend is never long enough.”

“Ha Ha! Yeah never long enough, need a weekend from my weekend….”

“Yeah… it’s like that hey…. Umm, yeah. You work in the city, I remember you saying that…”

With an entire bus now listening into their vanilla chat which was as dull as dishwater, many fellow commuters swore under their breath and begged for a run of green lights.

“Yeah, I work from home Wednesdays which is nice,” added Brett, like that’s some kind of unheard of revelation.

“Ahhh yeah, always nice to have that option hey,”

“Anyway, have you seen Caro lately, she’s so pregnant, ha ha?”

More sh*t chat to come.