thanks guys for all the nice words, I had more than a chuckle
I want to highlight the fact that this forum is a great community. Despite my open differences with some members, we all care for each other. It reminds me a bit of my sister: she always defends me from others, but then annoys the cr@p out of me. I guess she wants exclusivity.
I hate busses, and have nothing good to say about bus drivers. They go out of their way to assure a poor driver here. They hire the dumbest they can find. And when they crash, it's a giant cover-up and never gets mentioned again.
Jimmy, I know what you mean, but in this case I had (until last Monday) a rather good experience with these guys. For some obscure-to-me reason they are mostly immigrants from Croatia, and they are kind; I take that bus once or twice a week, specially during winter. There's a long (almost a mile) bridge between my place and the city of Munich itself, and there's only one lane in each direction, and they systematically make place by moving to the right when they see a motorcycle coming, so you can overtake them comfortably. They also wait for passengers and answer questions. That might seem obvious to you, but Germans are not the most customer oriented people, you know, so these Croatians stand out. So, as time passed since the accident, my anger towards the driver himself has faded a bit and I want to think that he just made a mistake. A human mistake. Expensive to me, but a mistake nonetheless. I think in the long run I will be happier if I think like that.
Just before the police and the ambulance arrived, the guy walked up to me to ask me if I wanted to seat in the bus to wait, but I walked away because I was infuriated and I was afraid of loosing my temper and hitting him, with all the legal consequences that such action would have. Now? I could seat down with him and accept his apology. I know it will never happen, his lawyers must have him chained in a basement somewhere, but still.
At the moment I'm driving so careful that I think the most likely way to die now is to be hit by a lightning