Everyone has a few less-than-ideal public transport experiences.

Some have perhaps experienced a raised voice, or an annoyed "tsk".

But very few have gone into full-fledged shouting without seemingly understanding each other.

Here's one such example.

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The video, posted on July 17 on the Facebook page Singapore Bus Drivers Community, shows a female passenger demanding to alight from the bus.

She gave a quick description of the scene.

Me and my husband took a bus 175 plate num SBS 6048A. We already press the bell before the bus stop. In fact, we pressed the bell before the traffic light. And when I came to him and ask to open the door, he just ignore. I told him to stop and open the door, he then spoke in Mandarin. After a while, he walkie-talkied with his colleagues I guess, something in Mandarin and afterwards, I guess he wanted to drop us off at another bus stop which is quite far from our kid's school. In the end I force him to open the door even though it was at the traffic light. Please be ensure your job as a bus driver (?)!! Alert with the bells!! And don'tjust ignore us when we talk to you!! Or please bring him to an English class for him to understand a simple English!! A**hole!!

Here's the Tl:dr version of that.

1. Bus driver overshot the bus stop.

2. Family got angry.

But here's the most interesting part of that Facebook rant.

"I told him to stop and open the door, he then spoke in Mandarin."

The camerawoman did not understand Chinese, and as the video shows, the bus driver didn't seem to understand English as well.

Here's their full exchange, translated.

Lady: (In English) I press the bell before the bus stop, then what you doing? Bus driver: (In Chinese) (To walkie-talkie) Hi, hi, I have two passengers, I didn't see them press the bell, and now they want to get off the bus. Lady: Open the door now. Bus driver: We haven't reached the next bus stop, but they want to get off now, I didn't hear them press the bell. What do I now? The man on the walkie-talkie advises the driver to drop them off at the next bus stop. Bus driver: They are very fierce one. Bus driver tries to signal that he will stop them off in the next stop, which triggers the lady. Lady: No, open the door now, we already press the bell before the bus stop. Understand? Before the traffic light we press the bell. Bus driver: (To walkie-talkie) Did you hear what they said? Walkie talkie man commiserates with the driver, advices him to let them off now Bus Driver: (To walkie-talkie) Ok thank you. (to passenger) I'm so sorry. Lady: We are going to complain.

The driver was consistently apologetic throughout the exchange, but the lady wouldn't have picked up on that due to the language barrier, and the driver wouldn't have understood what exactly the lady was complaining about, also due to the language barrier.

Que Sara.

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