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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=Subheadline>Females sitting in the laps of male passengers</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Observer staff reporter
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>THE coaster bus ride from Spanish Town to Half-Way-Tree during peak hours may not be as burdensome for travellers as many may believe - in fact, if you're willing to 'lap up', the experience, according to participants, is more pleasure than pain.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lapping up, which involves a woman sitting on a man's lap for the 14-mile journey, has become quite popular on the route, even though the conductors deny that there's anything happening beyond just innocent fun.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But with seat names like 'Good hole seat', there's a huge question mark about how much of it is actual fun and how much borders on the obscene.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"A just the vibes and the hype of the music that we play and people just enjoy themselves and feel good," one conductor explained, while vehemently denying that actual sex takes place. "No man, nothing like that nah gwaan, people can't have sex on my bus. No man, a just the vibes that we give them."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Other conductors approached also denied knowledge of sexual indulgence on the buses while others outrightly denied the very existence of passengers 'lapping up'.<P class=StoryText align=justify>However, as this reporter found out, a number of buses plying the route during peak hours - between 6:30 am and 9:00 am and between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m - carried out this practice. Buses identified in the act are those popularly known as the 'shotta' buses, namely 'BET', 'More Love', Sweet Love', 'Excess Love', 'Pon top a Tings', 'Rise to the Occasion' 'Hot Sauce' and 'VIP'.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lap-up passengers include both adults and students, with a large number of female students observed from The Queen's School, Holy Childhood, Immaculate Conception High and Priory High, while boys from Jamaica College and Calabar High and various evening schools were also spotted taking the buses.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When one Calabar student was asked why he walked two-and-a-half miles to catch a bus, he explained that he was doing so to meet a particular bus, naming one of the infamous lap-up buses.<P class=StoryText align=justify>His reason for doing so was simple - it was one of the 'vibes' buses. Though reluctant at first to talk about the lap-up scenario, he soon explained that, "only what you want to happen will happen".<P class=StoryText align=justify>"If the man want to fly a so, but is not all the time that happen. Is just the vibes. Is big people start it still, schoolers just start follow, das all."<P class=StoryText align=justify>A 'loader man' in Half-Way-Tree explained the process.
"You have a set of people who not travelling unless they take the lap-up buses. They come out here during the evenings and wait on them," he said. "And is not only schoolers but big people too. Woman a sit down in the man dem lap, most time, they don't know the man, but some of them come out here in groups. Schoolers sit down in schoolers lap or in big man lap, it doesn't matter."<P class=StoryText align=justify>But is it desperation to get to their destination that forces commuters to travel in this fashion? Or is it another way of practising 'safe sex' as many believe?
When asked why someone would want to 'lap up' in a bus, the loader man's answer was unambiguous.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"But lady, you can't get pregnant that way!"
The routine is simple. To get on to one of these buses from Kingston, one must walk from Half-Way-Tree to any bus stop on Molynes Road, sometimes as far as the intersection of Molynes Road and Washington Boulevard, just about two and a half miles away. From the old capital, one must wait for the bus at th
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>THE coaster bus ride from Spanish Town to Half-Way-Tree during peak hours may not be as burdensome for travellers as many may believe - in fact, if you're willing to 'lap up', the experience, according to participants, is more pleasure than pain.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lapping up, which involves a woman sitting on a man's lap for the 14-mile journey, has become quite popular on the route, even though the conductors deny that there's anything happening beyond just innocent fun.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But with seat names like 'Good hole seat', there's a huge question mark about how much of it is actual fun and how much borders on the obscene.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"A just the vibes and the hype of the music that we play and people just enjoy themselves and feel good," one conductor explained, while vehemently denying that actual sex takes place. "No man, nothing like that nah gwaan, people can't have sex on my bus. No man, a just the vibes that we give them."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Other conductors approached also denied knowledge of sexual indulgence on the buses while others outrightly denied the very existence of passengers 'lapping up'.<P class=StoryText align=justify>However, as this reporter found out, a number of buses plying the route during peak hours - between 6:30 am and 9:00 am and between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m - carried out this practice. Buses identified in the act are those popularly known as the 'shotta' buses, namely 'BET', 'More Love', Sweet Love', 'Excess Love', 'Pon top a Tings', 'Rise to the Occasion' 'Hot Sauce' and 'VIP'.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lap-up passengers include both adults and students, with a large number of female students observed from The Queen's School, Holy Childhood, Immaculate Conception High and Priory High, while boys from Jamaica College and Calabar High and various evening schools were also spotted taking the buses.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When one Calabar student was asked why he walked two-and-a-half miles to catch a bus, he explained that he was doing so to meet a particular bus, naming one of the infamous lap-up buses.<P class=StoryText align=justify>His reason for doing so was simple - it was one of the 'vibes' buses. Though reluctant at first to talk about the lap-up scenario, he soon explained that, "only what you want to happen will happen".<P class=StoryText align=justify>"If the man want to fly a so, but is not all the time that happen. Is just the vibes. Is big people start it still, schoolers just start follow, das all."<P class=StoryText align=justify>A 'loader man' in Half-Way-Tree explained the process.
"You have a set of people who not travelling unless they take the lap-up buses. They come out here during the evenings and wait on them," he said. "And is not only schoolers but big people too. Woman a sit down in the man dem lap, most time, they don't know the man, but some of them come out here in groups. Schoolers sit down in schoolers lap or in big man lap, it doesn't matter."<P class=StoryText align=justify>But is it desperation to get to their destination that forces commuters to travel in this fashion? Or is it another way of practising 'safe sex' as many believe?
When asked why someone would want to 'lap up' in a bus, the loader man's answer was unambiguous.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"But lady, you can't get pregnant that way!"
The routine is simple. To get on to one of these buses from Kingston, one must walk from Half-Way-Tree to any bus stop on Molynes Road, sometimes as far as the intersection of Molynes Road and Washington Boulevard, just about two and a half miles away. From the old capital, one must wait for the bus at th
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