PHIL Shepherdson's interesting account of his last bus ride (Evening Press, January 24) prompts me to write about my own recent nightmare on a rocking 'n' rolling bus.

Shaken by the driver's bullying tone, I was rendered momentarily speechless. Although he deserved a smack in the mouth, I'll put his ungraciousness down to the fact that the poor chap (well past middle-age and certainly no Ray Mears) was probably in the merciless iron grip of the male menopause.

Margaret Lawson,

Aldborough House,

The Groves, York.

Updated: 10:21 Thursday, January 31, 2002