I take on Miss Tran again, and it gets personal

I was waiting for the bus tonight, when it came whizzing by. By. As in without stopping. I threw up my hands in outrage just in time for the driver to see, and he pulled over when he got through the intersection. I hustled over.

"Sorry man," he said. "But you were standing too far from the sign."

That tore it. I hadn't been really upset, but he should have just stopped at "Sorry, man." Thus began a lengthy argument that included the following points:

• He obviously just wasn't paying attention.
  
• I was standing just where I always stand, so he should just admit he wasn't paying attention rather than try to deflect the blame on me.
• In fact, I was literally standing in the footsteps of a winter's worth of bus passengers who have managed to board the bus in the past.
• If I stood closer to the sign, that would put me closer to the street corner, and the last bus driver to pass me by said it's because I was too close to the corner and he thought I was just waiting to cross the street, so why risk that again?
• How close is close enough anyway? Ten feet? Five feet? One foot? Perhaps he could tell me the maximum allowable standing distance and I could go back Monday and draw an appropriately sized circle around the pole that hopeful passengers could stand inside. Or perhaps I should make it a semicircle, as we wouldn't want anybody misunderstanding it and standing inside the circle, but out in traffic.

Best argument I've had in weeks.