the BBC reports :
Quote:Bus driver's oven delivery detour
A bus driver took passengers on a detour to deliver and unload a cooker and a chest of drawers for friends.
The items were loaded into the space reserved for prams on the Glasgow to Wishaw service run by Coakley buses.
Passenger Margaret Dymond, 28, said she was stunned and took pictures of the goods which were unloaded during a 10-minute detour in Motherwell.
Bus firm owner Eddie Coakley said the Polish bus driver had been given a warning and lost his bonus.
"It shouldn't have happened," Mr Coakley said.
"We brought in an interpreter who spoke to the Polish driver and explained that his behaviour was not acceptable."
The driver made the detour at about 1000 GMT on Monday.
Ms Dymond, a mother-of-four, from Viewpark, Lanarkshire, captured the scene on her mobile phone.
"There was a couple on the bus with a pushchair and a young child and they were having a job getting past," she said.
"That was bad enough but I was stunned when the driver took a right turn off the route and actually took them right to the door of the flat."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6457907.stm
british bus drivers know how to please their customers as we found out in 1979 .
we had taken the bus to windsor in the morning and had tickets for "albert hall" for the evening . in the late afternoon we were trying to find the right bus to get back into london and asked one of the drivers - i think it was a "green line" bus .
the driver told to get aboard . once underway i mentioned to him that we probably needed to change buses to get to albert hall . after a couple of minutes he said : "i really should be going right through to victoria station , but i don't think anyone minds a little detour " .
he wheeled the bus through the city and dropped us off right in front of albert hall - that was service with a smile !
hooray for british bus drivers !
hbg
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