Ugh, bus

So every school day, a majority of the 1200 students living at Water Street make the commute up to campus via NYU'S bus system.  This morning, I went to get on the bus, just minding my own business, when the bus driver all of a sudden was like, Nope you're not getting on.  And I was like, Um, why not? I just showed you my ID, so what's wrong...  Turns out that she wouldn't let me onto the bus because I was eating my breakfast.  So I agreed to put it in my bag until we got to school.

I sat down, slightly upset and totally perplexed as to why I wasn't allowed to eat (though I can't recall any specific time when I've eaten on the bus before, I have carried a pizza box, and I know that I can't be the first person to have a snack on my way to/from campus).  Another girl sat down next to me, the bus started moving, and this girl whips out a granola bar from her bag and starts eating it, while I'm stuck with my half consumed breakfast in my bag.

I asked Aleja (my roommate/RA) if she had ever heard of someone not being allowed on a bus because of food, and she was as outraged as I was.  So when I got home from class today, I called up transportation, and after being transfered about 4 times (and when I explained my problem each time, I get the same response of "You weren't allowed on the bus because you had food??!), I was finally directed to leave a message with the man in charge of transportation.  

So while I admit that by calling transportation, I might have escalated this situation into something larger than it is, I'm am still completely dumbfounded as to why I wouldn't be allowed to eat on the bus.  It's not like I was about to start flinging my food at fellow passengers.  And until tomorrow, I anxiously await a return phone call in regards to my complaint.