I would prefer every car coming up behind me to blow their horn! Every single one of them! It let's me know they are there and THEY SEE ME!
Honk all day everyday!

I'm seriously worrying about your safety. :eek:

You are putting your ENTIRE life into the bus driver's hand. If you have ANY fall, or if the bus make ANY rightward maneuver, the immediate result will be your skull getting crushed under the bus' rear right wheel.

Depends on the area I am in. When I lived in the MD/DC suburbs, which are awful with traffic and no shoulders at all, I've had Metro buses brush by so close that their mirrors miss my head by mere inches. Since the roads are narrow, everyone passes me within 2 feet at slow speeds.

Here in DE, we have generous bike lanes, but that doesn't stop the occasional redneck in his raised Ram 2500 Quad Cab from slowly forcing me closer to the curb so that he can make his quarter-mile-early right turn. Most people give me plenty of room, just a small percentage want to show me who is the boss.

While I get where you're coming from, and I agree that most transit drivers are pretty darned good, they have their moments too -- I watched a bus drive into a car on Friday as both were making right turns. The bus driver either forgot that it was two right turn lanes (he was in the left-hand right turn lane..) or underestimated how much his rear would swing in behind his front end. Either way, the bus was clearly at fault, and the car was squashed. Had a bicycle been in that particular position, all would likely have been well. but in a narrower situation, even a bike could have been squeezed or worse.