Everyone knows how closely the ugly Bus resembles a hunchback. Well, the following is an extract from the Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore........
Hunchbak
For the first half of the 20th century at least, it was considered lucky to touch the hump of a hunchbacked person. The first known reference is in The People (11th June 1899)......two other references in Opie and Tatem make it clar that people disabled in this way could play on the superstition by charging money for the service at race-meetings and the like............
So BusBoy - it's just a fookin ploy to get our dosh out of us innit Ya fookin tight Yorkshire git Stroke yer own fookin hump