In my younger years growing up in Guyana, I had the daily school-boy experience of travelling from Hague, on West Demerara by bus to Vreed-en- Hoop to catch the ferryboat to Georgetown. It was often a troublesome matter because the buses were often overloaded for those morning and afternoon trips and it was common practice in a full bus that youngsters like myself would be expected to give up their seat to an adult passenger joining, with the young person then sitting on the adult’s lap for the rest of the journey. Inevitably there was often much turmoil with this arrangement, with the bus conductor having to negotiate the transaction. As expected, the altercations were many and on several occasions I recall the bus driver having to get up from his seat and deal with the matter directly. From experience I can attest that the youth sitting on an adult’s lap all the way to Vreed-en-Hoop, or all the way returning home, was a vexatious business at best, with a lot of grumbling and angry faces on both sides.