what is the daftest thing you've seen on a bus shelter roof?

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1) a single Doc Marten boot
2) pyjama bottoms
3) dead pidgeon
4) a Bible
5) blue plimsoll (again with the footwear)

not too daft in themselves but the context is key here

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

1) A Budgens shopping trolley
2) 3 loaves of bread in plastic and a 2-pint milk jug (there for 2 weeks and counting)

― marianna, Friday, 10 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend Jack's friend Kirk. This probably serves me right for hanging about with delinquent teenage boys.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ah shopping trolleys - forgot those. i've counted about 7 in my time. a Budgens one is rare tho, good work.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Loaves of bread seem strangley popular.

I have also seen a whole copy of the Sunday Times.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

TRAFFIC CONES

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's usually one old Nike trainer.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a bundle of burnt out books around Manor House somewhere at the moment. I like to think it was a failed author publicly destroying their unpublished manuscripts before hurling themselves off a bridge. But it probably wasn't.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Eastlake Ave here has several bus shelters which are made up to be very arty, with upside down canoe-shaped boats-- complete with several oars poking out on either side- AS the roofs. They're... well... rather odd looking. I don't think they provide terribly good rain protection, either.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 11 October 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.msmagazine.com/images/apr%2099/cakecouplesm.gif

― Dada, Saturday, 11 October 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

have thought before now that the tops of bus shelters would make a great place for displaying art - visible to those on the tops of buses whilst pedestrians walk by unknowingly.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 11 October 2003 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yo stevem -

Bus shelters and their discontents

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

dang (thanks)

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 11 October 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm always insanely jealous when I see UNDERWEAR left in the streets early in the morning when I'm on my way to work, left by people who couldn't wait to get home. Does everyone notice pants and knickers liberally strewn around the streets or is it just me?

― Itchyfinger, Saturday, 11 October 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe people are throwing them in your path, like rose petals.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

riders of the 38, 73, 341, 56, 476, i shall be putting an object on a bus shelter roof tomorrow

post here when you see it. what it is, where it is

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess already that it's Essex Road because that's the road common to all those routes. (It could also be the stretch of Upper Street/Islington High Street between Islington Green and the Angel road junction but you'd stand a better chance of being observed/apprehended there so less likely). So probably Essex Road, and I bet you put it on a shelter on the northbound lane to confound those travelling south on Monday morning. Unfortunately I won't be travelling until Tuesday so I'll miss the boat on this. Good idea though. Please devise more variations.

― David (David), Sunday, 12 October 2003 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

a sprite ad

― robin (robin), Sunday, 12 October 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i was unable to deposit the object, despite being on essex road for a few hours today. it will occur later in the week

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 12 October 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i bet it's a teddy bear, or a soda stream

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 12 October 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

a blackboard easel and a skateboard, both on the same shelter. i took the easel and zack took the skateboard... i still have the easel but the skateboard was broken.
also i once saw a teenager accidently kick his right converse onto the veranda of ascot vale station and then nearly cry when his friend wouldn't lend him another shoe so he could climb up and retrieve it. it was simultaneously hilarious and sad.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 October 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I swear this thread has been done before.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 12 October 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hey i think i just solved the unsolved 1 shoe mystery!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 October 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yo Andrews - look upthread.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 12 October 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

*reads other thread*

Why isn't everyone that witty and clever anymore? Y'all gettin' lazy in your old ages!

I wouldn't know if things land on bus/tram shelters here, as we don't have these double decker jobbies to enable us to see the roofs. Shame really. I often see things IN shelters though. Bags o'clothes, books, broken umbrellas, socks, shoes, rubbish...

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 12 October 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

hey trayce maybe the melbourne version could be about the roofs of the sheds at the show littered with show debris eg. rainbow curly clown wigs that you can only see via the chair lift or the ferris wheel

― minna (minna), Monday, 13 October 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh :) Yeah or umm.. stuff at Luna Park that you can only see from the madmouse or the rollercoaster.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 October 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

one traffic cone above the southbound stop on City Road by the Basin this morning, was that you gareth?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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