WHEN a taxi cut in front of Kitty Kwok Yuk-ling's 12-metre-long double-decker bus last month, she had to stand on the brakes to avoid a collision.
Leaving his cab blocking the road, the driver leapt out and furiously demanded she step down from the bus and apologise to him.
''I knew it wasn't my fault, and the passengers were on my side, so at first I refused,'' Ms Kwok, one of 17 women who drive with Citybus, said.
The row raged on for 20 minutes or more in the torrential rain and big queues of traffic soon built up.
Finally, an inspector from the Kowloon Motor Bus Company stepped in to defuse the impasse by appealing to Ms Kwok's professionalism.
For the sake of the passengers, she said: ''Even though I wasn't in the wrong, I did apologise and the cabbie drove off.'' All in a day's work for a bus driver, she said to herself.
