Being a horse's ass seems to be a reflexive action for Alec Baldwin. Now he's gone and dragged Greyhound into his latest act of airline jerkness:
“There are many now who walk the aisles of an airplane with a whistle around their neck and a clipboard in their hands and they have made flying a Greyhound bus experience.” He then continued that he won't keep his phone on “when the 1950s gym teacher is on duty.”
A Greyhound representative immediately fired back with a bit of hyperbolic puffery about providing "safe and enjoyable service" for "about 17.6 million people who travel with us every year who I'm sure wouldn't share [his] feelings.” I wouldn't go overboard in my praise, but I guess you could count me as one of thise 17.6 million. I haven't ridden the bus that often, but when I did I found it interesting enough to be enjoyable.
You meet a different sort of people on the bus than you encounter on a plane, and the thing is that you really do meet them. The goal on a plane (mine, at least) is to interact with fellow passengers as little as possible, especially the guy in the seat next to me, who for some reason always seems to be the most annoying person I've met until then.
On a bus, though, it seems natural to talk to people, even get into a discussion with more than one person at a time. It doesn't exactly make you Christmas card-exchanging buddies, but at the end of the trip you at least feel a little more connected to the human race.
