Last week I stopped at a Wal-Mart on the way to work to pick up something. As I'm driving down an aisle to get a spot, I see this short school bus coming into the parking lot off to the side of me. As I continue driving, I see him start shooting across the aisles right towards where I'm heading. He ends up cutting me off, without even looking. He parks, and I park about one aisle over where I can see the back of his bus with the phone number and bus number. Call to report him (there were no kids on the bus at the time) and the dispatcher tells me that she'll contact him since he's "not even supposed to be in that area with the bus".
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That dumbass. Hope he gets into trouble for that.
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It's been raining/snowing here since last night, with the temperature this morning hovering right around freezing in the valley. I have to climb up the 'mountain' to get to work. It's not very high, only about 1000 feet in elevation, but enough for the temperature to change quite a bit, and generally making the road slippery about 3/4 of the way up.
I was going at the speed limit, 55 mph, when a minivan with the Shool Bus lights and sign on the roof blows past me, doing at least 75 mph. Which is pretty good for a minivan going uphill.
My problem with this is that it was full of kids! If I had a cell phone still, I'd have called the cops right then and there. I don't know what company owns the minivan, but I'm thinking I should call the school and let them know. I'm pretty sure the driver isn't supposed to be going over the speed limit with kids, especially not on a road that's on the verge of icing over. Where do they hire these drivers, anyway?
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Heh. Reminds me of the lady who came to my dad's shop to pick up rolls of carpet for her house in a full sized schoolbus when I was in junior high. Her big mistake comes from the fact that it was a bus for the district where we lived and I went to school. My dad is kind of protective of his tax dollars at work, and called up the district office. He says they didn't seem real pleased with the situation.The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
"Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
Hoc spatio locantur.
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It's the same company that hires bus drivers like the one who stopped to pick up one kid and sat there chatting with the parent for 10 minutes while traffic backed up over several blocks one day.
Oh, if there wasn't a risk for cops being nearby and if it were only legal to pass....You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth
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Quoth Geek King View PostHeh. Reminds me of the lady who came to my dad's shop to pick up rolls of carpet for her house in a full sized schoolbus when I was in junior high. Her big mistake comes from the fact that it was a bus for the district where we lived and I went to school. My dad is kind of protective of his tax dollars at work, and called up the district office. He says they didn't seem real pleased with the situation.ludo ergo sum
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Quoth blas87 View PostIt's the same company that hires bus drivers like the one who stopped to pick up one kid and sat there chatting with the parent for 10 minutes while traffic backed up over several blocks one day.
Oh, if there wasn't a risk for cops being nearby and if it were only legal to pass....
(ok, really it was only a few minutes but still...there are people trying to get places. If you must talk to mom, pull over and turn your lights off.)I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"
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Quoth crazylegs View PostPlease excuse my ignorance, but why can't you overtake a stationary bus?
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kinda similar to the OP, but I saw a bad school bus driver on the 21st south freeway yesterday. I saw a bus going at least 70 mph in a 60mph zone, and I don't know about in Utah but I know in Nevada the maximum a school bus is 55mph... so, umm yeah that driver is a douche.If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song
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