The wheels on the Bus go KERRAANNG!

As you know, I take the bus into work in the morning. Usually on a Thursday morning, I catch a slightly later bus, allowing me to sleep in a bit after a BBB. Today started off as usual, and I decided to catch the 9:02 bus. There were about 20 kids of about 7-8 years old there too, obviously on a field trip and they had a bunch of 4 adults supervising them. "Great," I thought, "I'm gonna be standing up with a bunch of loud kids." (Such is my humor of a morning.)

To my surprise, I found a seat and another adult sat next to me. Everything set off as normal, until we got to Vågmästareplatsen, where I actually used to live. At this point, the bus leaves a bus-stop and has to cross a lane to get ready to turn left.

I was in "screen saver" mode, as I usually am on this trip, but in the corner of my eye I saw a red van drive by. At this point, I also felt the bus start to pull off and swing over to the left.

You know sometimes when you get that "feeling" - that instinct that you need to ready yourself for something? That happened to me. I put one hand on the back of the seat in front of me and thought, "Well, this ain't gonna be...."

BANG!

I don't know whether the bus driver was just distracted or plain stupid, but he sure traded paint with the van. Everyone was thrown forward of course. As mentioned, I was in a ready state, so I more or less stayed where I was. There were a bunch of people standing up who did an impressive Human Domino impression. There were also kids at the back who were standing up, faffing around, talking to each other and their guardians who suddenly fell down. Lots of gasps and then a few kids starting to cry.

After everyone realised what had happened, the kids found that they were actually OK - just a bit shook up of course. The driver of the van was a woman in her mid-50s and was on a warpath. When a Swede talks quickly, I tend to lose the actual words, but I could make out "Jävla" and "fan" a lot (Swedish swear-words which would be equivalent to the F-word and such in English).

After we decided that the bus driver and the van driver were going to have to exchange insurance details and all that stuff, we all got off the bus and I got on a tram instead.

So, no caffeine needed to wake me up this morning!