h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I was lucky enough to live close enough to my grade school and high school to be able to walk to and from. This was good because our busses were well known as mobile extensions of hell, and because it was better exercise than I ever got in gym class. Only if the weather was really bad would I take the bus. You've got the basics of the bus experience down pretty well, I think.

Stephen

I followed the shameless plug, too.

I ride the bus to school . . . when I don't miss it. Which happens often enough to serious piss of my parental units. I don't even have my permit yet. I can drive . . . just not legally. (Shhhhh!)

Anyway. The only thing I notice that stands out about my bus is that once on the bus, you are imediately equal to everyone else. It's crowded enough that there is a standing, unspoken and unwritten, rule that if you need a seat, someone will let you sit. You may find the uber-geek next to the prom queen and the shrimp next to the thug without any second thoughts involved whatsoever. Once you get back off the bus, again, though . . . it's Hell on Earth. My school is *this* close to being accurately described as a ghetto.

But the buss, amazingly, is a little bit of a safe haven.

In the mornings, anyway. In the afternoon it's anarchy. But the sit-anywhere rule is still in effect, with the restriction that the younger you are the closer to the front you'd better sit. It's frowned on having a 7th grader in senior territory (i.e. the back four seats). I sit in the front 'cause it's convenient and closer to the heater. LOL


Id

Wow. I will admit that my busses are completely different. In the morning I bus is empty enough that no one has to share seats, and we usually sit near the people we want to talk with. The bullies take the back. Us older seniors take the middle. The nobodys take the front.

In the afternoon the bus is usually crowded enough that most people have to share seats. So I just try to find a seat near some friends with some willing kid who doesn't mind a kid twice his size sitting with him. Sometimes bratty little kids refuse to let me sit with them. I have to wonder at that. haha.

peace.

See, amazingly enough, we don't have any of those bratty little kids.

Id