Karl has been dealing with some confusing feelings this week as he gets ready for the Armadale Line to reopen on Monday.
Over the past two years, he slowly became more and more attached to his replacement bus captors and he has been talking quite a lot about wanting the busses to remain.
Karl’s mates have watched his transformation and believe he has Stockholm Syndrome. With one telling The Times,
“I think he’s scared to live a life without replacement busses as they are all he’s known. We’ve told him that the train will be good and he’ll get to work faster but he keeps saying there is more to life than that and the replacement bus is misunderstood”
Of course, while TransPerth will no doubt scale back the replacement services, he’s still welcome to catch the existing bus routes as he pleases.
Surprisingly, the presence of regular bus routes only served to agitate Karl more. He told The Times,
“What I had with the replacement routes was special. You wouldn’t understand. At the start I felt trapped but now I only feel love. Is there something wrong with me?”
It should also be noted that Karl finally gets his licence back next week after a string of driving offences.
Despite this, he says he’d give up his licence just to keep riding the sweet, sweet replacement busses.
Good on’ya Karl.
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