From Edinburgh, Scotland: "How to stop a bus in the rain" [a Top Ten Bus Stories nominee]. (Not Reading On the Bus)

A few moments later a woman stepped daintily into the road and walked up the street at the bus, flourishing her umbrella and having at the number 29 like Errol Flynn in drag. The bus driver did the unheard of and opened his doors between bus stops, either in admiration, or because he did not wish to have to explain squashed septuagenerian on his paintwork.

(Read the whole story here.)