| We get a new uniform every | | adults joined in. Some people | | them until they pay. |
| seven months; it makes me look | | would give me weird looks but | | I always carry my [id:21351]; one |
| like a schoolboy, so I wear my | | then others would get on the bus | | of the inspectors tried to book me, |
| own boots with red, yellow and | | and say, “Ain’t you [id:21347] | | saying that they’re not allowed. But |
| green laces: I love people, I love | | today?” It makes them happy. | | the union argued that, as they were |
| reggae music. Under the uniform | | Some duties are spread-overs; | | invented after the Routemaster bus, |
| I am a free spirit. | | 12-hour shifts with a four-hour | | there was nothing in the rule |
| All the grannies on my bus | | interval in the middle. I like them | | book about them. I still carry |
| like the way I wear my hair in | | because, if I’ve had an idea for a | | mine but I only answer calls when |
| dreadlocks. A lady told me the | | song standing on the platform in | | I’m standing on the platform. |
| other day that I look about 21 | | the morning, I’ve got time to go | | I don’t have much of a social |
| years old. I said, “That’s because | | home and record it before I go | | life any more, but I don’t get |
| my hair is so [id:21344] it’s holding | | back.The problem is I never want | | lonely. With [id:21352] you are never |
| back all the wrinkles.” | | to go back to work. If you get | | alone. Reggae is the best wife you |
| The passengers on my bus | | deep into music it’s so hard | | could have: she never argues and |
| depend on the time of day; it | | to [id:21348]. | | she always pleases. |
| could be school kids, or people | | My flat is basically a recording | | I don’t want to give up |
| going to work. On a Monday, | | studio. I have £15,000 worth of | | my [id:21353]; not only does it pay |
| nobody talks. The majority of | | recording equipment, - I bought | | my rent but I like it. I had a letter |
| conductors are really [id:21345], - I | | it piece by piece -, but no | | from the chief executive of |
| think it must be in the job | | washing machine or bed. But it | | London Transport saying, “I |
| description: “Bad temper prefer- | | doesn’t [id:21349] me. I spend the | | would like to thank you for being |
| red” - but I myself try to make an | | majority of my spare time laying | | such a wonderful ambassador for |
| effort. | | down tracks; I’ll write down an | | our [id:21354]. ”It brought tears to |
| We’ve had nine robberies on | | idea on the back of a ticket, then | | my eyes. People say, “You should |
| my route but no one’s ever gone | | come home and put it down on | | go to America and make lots of |
| for me. If there’s any sign of | | tape. | | money.” But I can’t: England is |
| trouble I just start singing madly. | | I like the evening rush hour, | | the only country which still has |
| People in this country are [id:21346] | | when a lot of people get on my | | bus conductors and I am the |
| craziness and so they keep well | | bus, because we have more fun. | | singing conductor. |
| clear of me. | | But when there are more than | | |
| It was boredom that started it. | | twenty people, it’s difficult to | | ‘Sunday Times |
| I was so bored I’d sing to the little | | remember who has [id:21350]. So I | | Magazine’, July 2, 1995 |
| kids, “The wheels on the bus go | | look for people staring out of the | | |
| round and round...” and all the | | window, then stand really close to | | |
