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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:33:34 PM EDT
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Record it and post it to the local news FB account. Be even better if you had multiple videos.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:34:09 PM EDT
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Yep, when I was a kid, if you weren't at the bus stop when the bus came, forget it.... And this bullshit of the bus stopping at EVERY FUCKING house is crap too, in Buffalo, if I got stuck behind a bus in the neighborhood, forget it, they would literally stop in front of 5 houses on the same block, some right next to each other! Really, your kid can't walk next door? Back in the day, for the whole block there was one stop....period, everyone on the block walked to it. Ditto. I fantasize sometimes about doing something illegal when that happens. Like driving around the bus. Never did it, of course. But fantasized about it, for sure. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:34:52 PM EDT
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School buses run on timed schedules. If they show up early they will wait until the designated departure time.
This way, the kids can plan their morning a reach the bus without it leaving early |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:35:38 PM EDT
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If no one was at the stop my bus driver would just drive past. You could walk a few hundred yards to catch up to another part of the route if you missed it.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:35:48 PM EDT
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If you let your kids ride the bus and send them to public school, YOU are part of the problem. Oh stifle it, Gladys. Geez. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:35:51 PM EDT
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I also love it when the parents who have to stand with their kids at the bus stop spend a few minutes chatting with the driver while the lights flash and cars pile up waiting. I start honking. If they're going to annoy the heck out of me, I'll return the favor |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:37:07 PM EDT
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I'm not that old (mid 30s) but when I was in school, if you weren't at least outside of the house walking to the road, the bus driver would never break speed.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:37:40 PM EDT
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Zero seconds.
Chasing the bus down the street with arms flailing when I was a grade schooler is how I learned to be on time as an adult. Having a pissed off parent drive me to school reinforced the lesson. It's not a crime for kids to get a few hard lessons early and often. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:38:21 PM EDT
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That's how it was when I was growing up. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That's too long. If my daughter's bus driver doesn't see us waiting at the end of the driveway he doesn't even come to a complete stop. Will slow roll and make sure she isn't running down the driveway but keep on moving. That's how it was when I was growing up. Whatever happened to having to RUN to catch the bus as it is pulling away? |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:40:48 PM EDT
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Zero seconds. Chasing the bus down the street with arms flailing when I was a grade schooler is how I learned to be on time as an adult. Having a pissed off parent drive me to school reinforced the lesson. It's not a crime for kids to get a few hard lessons early and often. In today's world? |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:42:09 PM EDT
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happens to me at least once a week on the way to work, usually at the same house... very frustrating. "back in my day" my brother and I would wait out by the road rain or shine for the bus or it would just drive on by and my parents would chew us out to no end. the world we live in..... Its worth mentioning that I drive by (2) schools on my commute to and from work and the line of parents dropping their kids off is miles upon miles long. Mind you, this is a small 4A school, not some sort of huge inner city school. Apparently kids just don't ride the bus that much anymore. Ridiculous, b/c it causes SOOOOOO much more traffic on my commute..... unacceptable...... Personal responsibility is almost non-existent. Shit, I've yelled at special snowflake adults that don't make room on the bus going in to work, multiple times. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:45:24 PM EDT
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Back when I was in college and driving a school bus I used to beep the horn if they weren't by the road...I usually did not have to wait long as either the kid came out the door or mom did waving me on.
Never had any habitual offenders....just once in a while someone just didn't have it together....-30° temps and big snow storms...rain....slow kids little kids...you have to make some allowances. But then again I did not tolerate fighting or other types of rude behavior in a kid...more than once I tossed a couple off a few miles from home...nice winter walk in the country did them good. I did get fired from that job though....so I am probably not the best example... 
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:46:09 PM EDT
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The sammich-maker's niece in a bus driver and I once asked her what was up with waiting a few minutes for some kid to get to the bus and asked why don't you just leave instead of inconveniencing those headed to work and such.
She said she damn near lost her job because she "left behind" some snowflake that was not even at the bus stop because Mrs. Housefrau had not drove her special snowflake there yet but she claimed the bus driver should have known she was coming....WTF. 
You would be amazed at the housefraus that drive their crotch-fruit to the bus-stop even in good weather. Of course then you have to wait for the Keystone Cops maneuver while the little spawns of satan disgorge from all the housefrau's SUVs and finally get on the fucking bus. 
Same retarded deal on stopping at every-other house to pick them up. All a parent has to do is call the school board and ask for the bus to stop in front of their house to pick their snowflake up. She said since they started doing that her rural route takes 20 min longer to complete.....Of course the housefraus bitch about that too. Heaven help her when a train sits on the crossing for 20 minutes (another local issue) and she is late. Good thing gas is cheap for the Fraumobiles now. 
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:47:08 PM EDT
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At the road when the bus arrives or it doesn't even slow down. How is that hard?
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:47:38 PM EDT
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I walked to school everyday until high school then I caught a ride with a friend or drove myself.
Get rid of school buses. They cost money, fuck up traffic, and turn the nation's children into soft, pudgy little socialists. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:49:56 PM EDT
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Bus shouldn't let off the gas unless the kid is at the road. If kid walks slow, kid gets left. Hit the last ones ankles with the door and start moving.
The crotch fruit needs to learn respect for other people's time. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:50:39 PM EDT
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Its worth mentioning that I drive by (2) schools on my commute to and from work and the line of parents dropping their kids off is miles upon miles long. Mind you, this is a small 4A school, not some sort of huge inner city school. Apparently kids just don't ride the bus that much anymore. Ridiculous, b/c it causes SOOOOOO much more traffic on my commute..... unacceptable...... They completely redid the entrance at my old junior high school because of the number of parents who show up now with their kids in the car Meanwhile, the buses roll in half empty. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:51:07 PM EDT
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I walked to school everyday until high school then I caught a ride with a friend or drove myself. Get rid of school buses. They cost money, fuck up traffic, and turn the nation's children into soft, pudgy little socialists. Ya gotta point...until they make schools actually worth going to why bother.... |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:54:22 PM EDT
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When I was a kid and rode the bus (late 80's early 90's) if you weren't in eyesight of the driver, they closed the doors and left...no time restriction. If you were in the eyesight of the driver and you weren't making an effort, they closed the door and started driving off. Generally that made the kids run so the driver would then stop (again) and open the doors to let them in. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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1-2 mins tops. When I was a kid and rode the bus (late 80's early 90's) if you weren't in eyesight of the driver, they closed the doors and left...no time restriction. If you were in the eyesight of the driver and you weren't making an effort, they closed the door and started driving off. Generally that made the kids run so the driver would then stop (again) and open the doors to let them in. This The bus didn't pick up each kid right at their own house. There were designated bus stops. For example, every kid on my road got picked up at the same place where our road intersected the main road. If you wern't there, they left. If you were running, they would wait. I don't know what would happen if you just walked because nobody would have thought of doing that. I lived at the last house on the road, so it was about 3/4 of a mile to the bus stop. And every morning, I survived. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:57:51 PM EDT
[#20]
Yup, when I was growing up you waited on the bus the bus didn't wait on you. If you missed it, you were either walking to school are begging mom to drive you.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:57:58 PM EDT
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Hell when I rode the bus we could be standing at the stop waiting on the bus and she would slow the bus down just enough for us to jump in and hold on for dear life before she went speeding off to the next stop.
At least it seemed that way 
If you weren't standing there when she came by it wasn't even a slow down, she just kept on driving. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:58:09 PM EDT
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Around here the parents wait with their spawn in the car at the end of the driveway. Guess 60 degrees is too cold. Then they spend a minute chatting up the kid before they let him go and reverse back into their garage.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 12:58:56 PM EDT
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Mine wouldn't wait for the 100 yard sprint down my parents driveway.
Yeah, I was a fat kid, and the 100 yard dash is more of an amble, but I could still clear that distance with a full bookbag in under a minute. 
There was more than one instance of the driver pulling away as my brother was half way down the driveway. 
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:04:55 PM EDT
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Around here the parents wait with their spawn in the car at the end of the driveway. Guess 60 degrees is too cold. Then they spend a minute chatting up the kid before they let him go and reverse back into their garage. I'm glad it has not reached this point around here yet. Parents walk or drive(in winter) to the bus stop, and stand around talking to each other with their coffee and wait for the bus. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:06:52 PM EDT
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That's too long. If my daughter's bus driver doesn't see us waiting at the end of the driveway he doesn't even come to a complete stop. Will slow roll and make sure she isn't running down the driveway but keep on moving. This is the way it should be. I know the bus comes around 6:47 so I make sure my son is out the door by 6:40. I can see the corner where the bus stops from my front window, but if he's not out there she won't stop. Luckily there is another boy at the stop, because once my son was too pokey and had to run to make the bus. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:11:19 PM EDT
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They shouldn't be allowed to stop on a main road.They create a hazard and fuck up traffic
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:11:35 PM EDT
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I walked to school everyday until high school then I caught a ride with a friend or drove myself. Get rid of school buses. They cost money, fuck up traffic, and turn the nation's children into soft, pudgy little socialists. For what it's worth, you pay per ride in my county |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:19:46 PM EDT
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Unless it's an extraordinary circumstance they should be at the stop when the bus shows up. At worst they should be ready and heading out when it pulls up. I don't see how it should take more than a minute or two at most. More than that and their parents can take them to school because they're slowing everyone else down.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:24:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hell if we weren't at the stop or running our little asses off in sight of the stop. That bus was GONE and we were lucky to get a ride or we were walking to school Back when I rode the bus to elementary school (I'm only 32) that is how it was. You had your backside out there on time or you were screwed. How far we have fallen in only a couple of decades. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:26:48 PM EDT
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That is the reason that the first kid on the route has to ride the bus for 1.5 hours just to get to school...
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:30:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I start honking. If they're going to annoy the heck out of me, I'll return the favor Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I also love it when the parents who have to stand with their kids at the bus stop spend a few minutes chatting with the driver while the lights flash and cars pile up waiting. I start honking. If they're going to annoy the heck out of me, I'll return the favor You gonna have shaniqua, the 300 pound pissed off "parent" at your window with a dirt devil swinging at you. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:37:57 PM EDT
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Growing up we lived a ways off the main road and had a lane about 1/3 mile long. My bus driver gave no fucks. If your ass wasn't waiting for him at side of the road he kept trucking.
One morning, it was foggy as hell and my siblings and I weren't quite to the road. We could hear the bus roll up, stop and then take off (I guess he was looking for us in the fog). We were running and yelling, but we weren't at the road. Sorry. Winters were bad as well. My parents both worked at times, and we would walk down the lane in drifted snow and sub zero temps. I laugh these days when our local school district has a two hour delay for "cold" and its still above zero. Our bus stop was at our lane, because we were the only kids on the road. If you missed the bus, you had to stay home and then when dad got there he would rip our asses. School was about a 10 mile walk, so not really feasible to walk there. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:52:37 PM EDT
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If you let your kids ride the bus and send them to public school, YOU are part of the problem. THIS! There should no xyz excuse for a school bus to make a stop when a kid isn't going to use the bus. If Mommie going to drive Junior to school, then notify the school bus operator. There are these machines called telephones and computers which can be used to communicate with others. Since we are being taxed for the costs of providing transportation then it ought to be run efficiently. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:54:39 PM EDT
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People should leave earlier to miss that stop.
Problem solved. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 1:59:37 PM EDT
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I've been driving a school bus in Las Vegas for over 10 years, no way I would that long.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:01:20 PM EDT
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Our buses roll the fuck out if precious isn't at least within eyesight of the bus.
4 minutes? They're already half a mile away. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:02:59 PM EDT
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When I was a kid growing up I had to walk four blocks to the bus stop. FOUR FUCKING BLOCKS. It didn't matter if it was sunny, raining or in the blistering fucking cold after a major fucking snow storm. If and I mean IF I was not standing there freezing my ass off waiting for the god damned bus to get there the bus would not wait for me. It drove the fuck off. Then I'd have to walk the four fucking blocks back home to get a ride to school from my mom. Which by the way the school was 15 fucking miles from my house. Do you know how many times I missed the bus? Once. That's it, because I'd get my ass beat by my old man for missing the bus. So, we'd get out there before god himself woke the fuck up and watched the sun rise as we stood there in the fucking cold and snow freezing our asses off waiting for the bus.
So, how long should the bus wait for the little snow flakes? Zero. Zero fucking seconds. If your rat isn't out there waiting to picked up then tough shit. It misses the fucking bus. You know what else pisses me off about buses this day in age? Why in the fist fuck do they need to stop at every fucking house on the fucking street? You know why I walked four fucking blocks to my bus stop? Because the bus wasn't coming to my god damned door. Back when I was a kid, the bus didn't stop at every fucking street or house. It stopped at one centralized bus stop. You had to go there to get the bus to school. Now? Kids get picked up at their fucking door. No wonder they're a bunch of fucking pussies. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:05:13 PM EDT
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Back in the day, for the whole block there was one stop....period, everyone on the block walked to it. Wait, that's now how they do it anymore? 
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:06:56 PM EDT
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People should leave earlier to miss that stop. Problem solved. In my drive into town (1.2 miles) there is a high school, a elementary school, three bible-thumper schools, and between 5-6 daycares off the main road into town. The fucking school bus and housefrau traffic is really bad. Half mile back-ups are a everyday occurrence. Throw in the garbage truck on Friday morning and it's gridlock. Unless I absolutely have to I wait till 0845 to venture forth on weekdays when school is in. It's just not worth it to go sooner. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:08:59 PM EDT
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When I was in kindergarten, my parents said that my bus driver actually shut the doors almost in my face once and took off. I know on several occasions when I was older, but still in elementary school, I ran out of the house and barely got the driver to stop. Other times, I couldn't flag the bus down and my parents had to take me to school. This wasn't after the bus waiting for me either. The driver would pull up, open the doors, the kids got on, and she was out.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:09:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They should be outside waiting already but that was back in my day. These days however... |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:11:34 PM EDT
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Depending on weather, be at the stop ready to get on or our driver didn't stop at all. Bad Weather he'd wait like 10 seconds for you to get out the door and wait till you got to the bus. This. 20-25 seconds tops. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:13:05 PM EDT
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No Child Left Behind
Has pretty much been abandoned. So, about 10 seconds? |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:14:40 PM EDT
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If we weren't standing outside ready to roll, my bus driver wouldn't even stop.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:16:58 PM EDT
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I remembered back in the day having to use a school bus.... what it meant to me was that if I wasn't there ON TIME when the bus is supposed to be there, the bus would't even attempt to make a stop.
And there was no stupid thing such as "it's cold outside" bs.... if it was cold, you would run out 30 seconds to a minute before your bus was supposed to be there. Bus was always on time because it didn't have to wait for snowflakes. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:17:17 PM EDT
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That's how it was when I was growing up. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That's too long. If my daughter's bus driver doesn't see us waiting at the end of the driveway he doesn't even come to a complete stop. Will slow roll and make sure she isn't running down the driveway but keep on moving. That's how it was when I was growing up. That's the story of my youth, though they would wait a bit for kids staying inside due to heavy rain/blizzards/subzero temps. My bus driver lived down the street, and he parked the bus in front of his house. Sometimes we neighborhood kids would go get in the bus before he got there and surprise him. Society has changed a lot in 30-40 years. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:21:59 PM EDT
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That's too long. If my daughter's bus driver doesn't see us waiting at the end of the driveway he doesn't even come to a complete stop. Will slow roll and make sure she isn't running down the driveway but keep on moving. Better than my son's bus driver. She's waved at him and pulled away as he's sprinting for the bus. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:22:19 PM EDT
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There's a school bus stop on my morning commute route where the driver will sit there and wait for however long it takes. I think it has something to do with the fact that the mother of the child in question usually walks him to the curb while wearing very little to next to nothing. While I might consider her a bit high mileage my opinion apparently doesn't matter since the bus has that darned flashing stop sign.
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:30:31 PM EDT
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That's too long. If my daughter's bus driver doesn't see us waiting at the end of the driveway he doesn't even come to a complete stop. Will slow roll and make sure she isn't running down the driveway but keep on moving. Yep. That's the way it should be. |
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Posted: 2/23/2016 2:31:41 PM EDT
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If you're not there when the bus stops...then you missed the bus. See ya tomorrow!
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