6 in 1, great for tools, not so good for busses!
OK, today will be a small break in my philosophy to not make this little corner of the interwebs my own personal bitching space! I generally have more positive things to say and fun anecdotes to share, but this message has to get out!
My cute little neighborhood is very kid centric. It's a cute, and demographically young neighborhood. As such, there are about 4.9 billion school busses that creep along through my neighborhood in the mornings. Now, I understand, the littles need their education, that's great! They are the future of our country, and they need to learn and grow and take pride in their class work and blah blah blah! What they need to do is figure out how to get to the damned school bus on time. When I was a kid and I rode the bus, if I was not standing at the corner waiting for the bus, it was gone. If I was walking up to the bus stop, mere feet away, the bus was gone. And the times that I did make it on the bus, as soon as my cute little backpack with a set of markers was across the threshold, the bus was on the move! I didn't get the luxury of the bus driver waiting until my seat beneath me was warm!
One stop like that would drive me nuts. In less than a half mile stretch of road, 5 blocks worth of a street, the (foul language here) bus makes SIX stops!!! SIX!!!! At each block, there are kids, and every single time I get stuck behind the bus, there are at least two kids bopping down the street running (not fast of course) to get on the bus. Then, each kid gets to pick their optimal travelling location, put their luggage in the over head storage bins, place their seat front tables in the upright and locked position, adjust the backrest, find the differential formula for the area under the curve of the time that I have been (im)patiently waiting, and only then does the school bus travel 12 feet to the next stop.
Sunnovabeeotch! I mean, really?? Can the littles not all convene at the end of the street, on time, at one stop?! You've seen them, they have more energy than a freakin nuclear reactor with a fresh clump of U238! I think they can walk to the end of the block just fine!!!
On the positive side to that, as I sit and wait, I can sip my coffee and text on my phone, possibly update my facebook status and see what is going on in the Twitterverse.
Maybe there's a slight chance that I have too many activities while driving... naaaaah!
Have a nice day!
(Kharmic balance above)
My cute little neighborhood is very kid centric. It's a cute, and demographically young neighborhood. As such, there are about 4.9 billion school busses that creep along through my neighborhood in the mornings. Now, I understand, the littles need their education, that's great! They are the future of our country, and they need to learn and grow and take pride in their class work and blah blah blah! What they need to do is figure out how to get to the damned school bus on time. When I was a kid and I rode the bus, if I was not standing at the corner waiting for the bus, it was gone. If I was walking up to the bus stop, mere feet away, the bus was gone. And the times that I did make it on the bus, as soon as my cute little backpack with a set of markers was across the threshold, the bus was on the move! I didn't get the luxury of the bus driver waiting until my seat beneath me was warm!
One stop like that would drive me nuts. In less than a half mile stretch of road, 5 blocks worth of a street, the (foul language here) bus makes SIX stops!!! SIX!!!! At each block, there are kids, and every single time I get stuck behind the bus, there are at least two kids bopping down the street running (not fast of course) to get on the bus. Then, each kid gets to pick their optimal travelling location, put their luggage in the over head storage bins, place their seat front tables in the upright and locked position, adjust the backrest, find the differential formula for the area under the curve of the time that I have been (im)patiently waiting, and only then does the school bus travel 12 feet to the next stop.
Sunnovabeeotch! I mean, really?? Can the littles not all convene at the end of the street, on time, at one stop?! You've seen them, they have more energy than a freakin nuclear reactor with a fresh clump of U238! I think they can walk to the end of the block just fine!!!
On the positive side to that, as I sit and wait, I can sip my coffee and text on my phone, possibly update my facebook status and see what is going on in the Twitterverse.
Maybe there's a slight chance that I have too many activities while driving... naaaaah!
Have a nice day!
(Kharmic balance above)
posted by sirwilliam | 8:53 AM
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