
バンコクのバスに乗っていると日本では考えられない事に、時々、出会うことがある。まずは上の写真、この運転手、運転中かなり長い時間携帯電話を話していた。しかも、少なくとも2台以上の携帯に代わる代わる電話がかかってきて会話していた。会話中はずっと片手運転で、後で見ていて大丈夫かとちょっと不安に。
I was able to meet some surprising happenings for which I have seldom scene in Japan. A picture of heading, driver talked on by mobile phones during most of driving time. I recognized he had at least two mobile phones and received and talked phones one after one. During his speaking he drove by one hand and I was worried about safety of driving.
郊外からバンコク市内に戻る時に乗ったバスの運転手は、ダッシュボードの上に小型のDVDプレーヤーを載せて、1時間ぐらいずっと見ながら運転。見ていたのがコメディなのか、周りで一緒に笑っている客もいた、ある意味なんともおおらか。

Once I took a bus around one hour for returning from suburbs to downtown Bangkok, I found potable DVD player in front of a driver. The driver drove with watching DVD movies during his driving. It could be comedy movies that he watched, some passengers surrounding him laughed sometimes together. I was a little bit impressed by such untentioned atmosphere.
渋滞につかまった時に、運転手さんがドアをあけ外に出たので、何かあったのかと心配して見ていたら、やおらタバコを取り出し一服。1本吸い終わって戻ってきたら、ちょうど少し車も流れ出した。偶然なのか慣れているのか?

When a bus caught in heavy traffic jam and could not move, a driver suddenly opened door and got out from the bus. As I watched him cautiously but I found that he took a cigarette and put on a fire on it. After he had finished smoking and returned his sheet, crowed cars began to move. I am not sure he was so familiar with situation or lucky.
写真はないが、バス停でもない、ガソリンスタンド前の路上に止まったので、何かと思ったら、運転手はガソリンスタンドのトイレへ、その間乗客は黙って待っていたり、渋滞時の信号待ちで、運転席で大きく新聞を広げて読む運転手とか、日本では結構、問題になりそうな出来事も、こちらでは結構頻繁に出会うことができる。渋滞が激しく、時刻表もなく、料金も安いので、乗客も運転手に寛容なのか、諦めているのか、これぐらいのことで驚いていてはバンコクでは暮らしていけないのか、いつも乗客が平静なのにもこちらが驚かされる。
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今日も、有難うございました。
Another day, I was in a bus a driver went a rest room after he stopped in front of a gas station where was not bus stop and had to wait him with other patient passengers. Or I found a driver was reading newspaper by wide spreading it during waiting traffic rights, which interval is very long. I am sorry I could not take pictures of these happenings.
Such episodes could be problem in Japan, but here in Bangkok, it looks as usual. It might be because of usual traffic jam, no time table and low fares, passengers in Bangkok could be patient or not expecting much to bus, but I am always impressed such patient and gentle attitude of citizen of Bangkok.
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