I hate getting stuck behind a school bus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child gets picked up at our house and his bus ride is 1.5 hours each way. The bus is often 15+ min early or late due to the length of the route and distance between stops. He has to be buckled into a special seat once he is on the bus. The number of assholes who honk at his bus have really killed my faith in the future of humanity. Including a guy who lives a few houses down and *knows our child is in a wheelchair*. Thanks, neighbor.

Get over yourself

Many people have hour plus commutes and manage to belt themselves in every day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kids that can't get off the bus in timely manner drive me crazy

Yes!!! What the hell are those little a-holes doing taking so long to get off the damn bus.

[Anonymous]

I knew from the title this thread would be full of drama..I wasn’t disappointed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate when the school bus stops in front of an individuals home and that child is not ready. The bus has stopped to wait and put out it's sign. Now the rest of us have to wait for the child to exit the front door and board the bus.

I have no issues waiting for the bus and the children when the children are at the bus stop waiting to board the bus as it arrives. I'm even patient when the the straggling kid comes running towards the bus.

But if you have the luxury of waiting inside your front door for the bus, you should be ready to go when it pulls up. I should not have to wait 3-4 min for your departure.

The only kids who get door to door transportation are those with significant disabilities. If you have hw luxury of a kid who can attend their local school and walk to the regular stop you should stop complaining about other people’s “luxuries”.

....really? I live in Arlington on a street with a lot of apartments. I see one bus stop every day and a ton of kids (look like middle/elementary school age, definitely not high schoolers). I see them congregating from different buildings. Then I see a separate bus stop at another building and an elementary school kid skips out and on to the bus. Just him. I can’t believe there are no other elementary school age kids in the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child gets picked up at our house and his bus ride is 1.5 hours each way. The bus is often 15+ min early or late due to the length of the route and distance between stops. He has to be buckled into a special seat once he is on the bus. The number of assholes who honk at his bus have really killed my faith in the future of humanity. Including a guy who lives a few houses down and *knows our child is in a wheelchair*. Thanks, neighbor.

Get over yourself

Many people have hour plus commutes and manage to belt themselves in every day

OMG. What an ass! Did you actually read the post? Her child is in a _wheelchair_. Not comparable to commuters wearing seatbelts!

[Anonymous]

Don't pass them! $270 ticket, 3 points on your licence and a,driver improvement class! I was 18 when I did this!

[Anonymous]

I love it - suburbanites with suburban commutes complaining about a purely suburban form of getting kids to school with safety measures necessitated by the car oriented nature of the suburbs you are living in commuting in!

Those of you on here complaining do realize your lifestyle choices are the problem and not kids or school buses?

I presume none of the people complaining have kids or ever rode a school bus themselves!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate when the school bus stops in front of an individuals home and that child is not ready. The bus has stopped to wait and put out it's sign. Now the rest of us have to wait for the child to exit the front door and board the bus.

I have no issues waiting for the bus and the children when the children are at the bus stop waiting to board the bus as it arrives. I'm even patient when the the straggling kid comes running towards the bus.

But if you have the luxury of waiting inside your front door for the bus, you should be ready to go when it pulls up. I should not have to wait 3-4 min for your departure.

+1
This is a little different, but similar - the parents all drive to the bus stop and the kids wait inside the cars. When the bus is visible, all of the kids except for one, exit their cars and wait at the stop for the bus to pull up. This one kid stays in his car, talking to his mom, then slooooowly opens his door, gets his stuff out of the backseat, fiddles around for a few more seconds, and slooooowly walks to the bus, which has by now, been waiting a good minute for him to pull it together. I fault the boy's mom, who doesn't hustle him out as soon as the bus appears. Ridiculous.

But 3-4 minutes, outside of the kid's house?! No way!

[Anonymous]

Here's what I hate:

When we are trying to load my special needs child on the school bus in the morning in her wheelchair on the ramp and some asshole is drumming on his steering wheel and looking at his watch. Do you think this is a hobby, asshole?

[Anonymous]

Waiting behind a bus is a real pain, but it is not as bad as having to move over for ambulances (for those of us who live near a hospital). Why doesn't somebody do something???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I hate:

When we are trying to load my special needs child on the school bus in the morning in her wheelchair on the ramp and some asshole is drumming on his steering wheel and looking at his watch. Do you think this is a hobby, asshole?

Well, the bus driver should instead use the flashing yellows. Proceed with caution. They do this for wheelchair students where I live.

[Anonymous]

I hate all the 20mph school zones where I live too. I hit 3 just taking my DD to daycare. There are NO walking kids and we have tunnels under the big roads leading to the elementary schools. The super slow speed limit just clogs up traffic and makes it hard for parents to get out of the schools after drop off. Because everyone is going so slowly the lanes of traffic never clear enough to let them out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sooo annoying

Next time, please measure exactly how much time this adds to your drive. Then report back. Also tell us how long your drive is, total. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate all the 20mph school zones where I live too. I hit 3 just taking my DD to daycare. There are NO walking kids and we have tunnels under the big roads leading to the elementary schools. The super slow speed limit just clogs up traffic and makes it hard for parents to get out of the schools after drop off. Because everyone is going so slowly the lanes of traffic never clear enough to let them out.

PP, you are complaining about a 20 mph speed limit AROUND SCHOOLS. It's no surprise that there aren't any walking kids. Who would let their kids walk to a school surrounded by big roads driven on by people who can't stand having to drive 20 mph around schools?

[Anonymous]

You people have to be kidding! Guess what.....the buses take the same route every day at the same time. If you are too stupid to know this then maybe you should get on the damn bus and go finish your education.