RE: ... except we all chased after it so the driver had to stop.

That made me smile :) - its not just you, either. Even though I can be extraodinarily polite, I have trained myself to never, ever say thank you to a TWM bus driver.

I've started surfing the bus as much as possible too, which is extremely sad, and i probably get laughed at, but its unbelievable fun, specially when the bus driver is clearly trying to make me fall over