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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I can't remember, Like, we definitely had like bus drivers
that did not like.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Us because of your behavior? Or were they just grumpy
cats all the time?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I think at the time I thought they were What
did you call him?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Grumpy cats?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
That's the tea speaking. Oh yeah, I hate dogs now.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
But part of it, part of it may have been,
like I'm listen, were we dicks at times?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah? Of course did you?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Were you messing with the bus driver or were you
just messing around on the bus.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Messing around like none of us, I don't. I don't
think we ever mess with the bus driver?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good the No? No? Like were we loud? Yes? Did
we throw stuff out the windows? Yes? Did we? Did
we dip on the bus? Yes? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We used to dip on the butt? I guarantee you.
Scott dipped in high school, didn't he?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
When he got older?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, yeah, but I'm sure his freshman sophomore year he
dipped on the bus.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Remember I saw Sammy Hemeline's uh titties on the buses.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
She flashed everybody the well she did.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I think when you're talking about kids, we should still say.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, she's a grown woman now.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, but I don't know if they've transitioned to the
tea or the who sammy children?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh well, okay, maybe may.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Sound more innocent in middle and high school.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So she showed her skeeters on the they were they
were not skeeters.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
They was big.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It was hurt like no, but like even like, do
you remember the girl who lived across the street from
me in middle school, Denise Koltoff.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You've mentioned her, Yeah, she had big old juggies.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Anyway, at this point, just give their middle names to Yeah,
we're so familiar with their first and last it's like,
you know, you may as well give away their entire identity.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The no, no, no, But did you did you have
a school bus driver that I'm sure you were never
misbehaved on the bus if I had to guess, other
than like maybe on the receiving end of like some
bullying the but like, was the bus driver ever angry
or so annoyed that they jacked with the kids?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't recall anything that stood out.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I wonder if and maybe that's it, maybe you just
don't remember it, But I wonder if every like even
maybe in their own subtle way, would find a way
to jack with kids. But at the time you may
not have been aware because you didn't pay attention, right.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Like, it's funny to them. They know what they're doing,
but it's hidden enough from being so obvious.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So there's a school district outside this is in Texas
is being accused of intentionally driving slowly with all of
the windows on the bus rolled up as it was
one hundred degrees in order to punish the kids on
her route last week.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well that's not good.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So the school bus driver told them, hey, everybody put
your windows up.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So everybody had to put their windows.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Uh, and then they drove at six miles per hour
just to make it hot and unbearable on the bus.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Well, the driver's suffering too, right, Well, they have their
little fan on them.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They had a little fan. Yeah front.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now it's still hot. It's still blowing hot air. Yeah,
it's still hot fart air blowing at you. But I
know those kids are suffering, and I'm smart enough to know.
All I got to do is make it another twenty minutes.
But these kids are sweating balls in the back of
the bus.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
For how long did they drive like that? About a
half hour? Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, Now the district is standing by their employee saying,
we asked the bus driver, and the bus driver said, listen,
I was just I was on a road.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I was being extra careful. I wanted to make sure
everything was fine.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So they intentionally and the school bus and the school
district said yeah, we know that there are videos on
the bus. And then they said, well the video does
raise some questions, but they let it go. They said,
the bus driver has a great history, there's no problems,
and so they're going to let it go.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So the school district cleared their own. Yes, what was
Fairfax County?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The uh now, somewhere in Texas. I don't I don't
know exactly where it was in Texas.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Oh that's right, that's right man. But if I were
if a parent there a parent, by the way, I
would bet ninety percent of the parents don't even know
this is making the news. Yeah, well now they do,
now they do. For the kids reported it all the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think some some some goody goodie got home and
they were like, why are you so sweating like it's
hot on the bus, which most kids say anyway, Yeah,
but then if you found it, would you have known
being trapped with the windows.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Okay, you're they're living. Oh man, that is hot.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
But what about if you're one of the good kids
and you're being punished there.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Too, then you should know you keep your mouth shut.
But but I, but I do want to believe that. See,
and this is a hard one because it got out
most of the kids. No no, no, no no. But
most of the kids probably had no ide that the
bus driver was jacket with them other than saying you
got to put the windows off, right, And I'm sure
(05:04):
there were some kids going like in time.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Right here.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
One of the eleven year old girls who has asthma
oh barged in her front door at home and so.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We finally feel the air right, okay, killed her? Okay,
that's dramatic. I bet you bus drivers have messed with
the door before. Oh whoops, didn't mean to hitch or oh.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Your your obnoxiously large backpack. I bought my door.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The other one that I could see if I were
a school bus driver that I think I would probably
be guilty of. Yeah, speed humps, whoops, yep, didn't mean
to make you fly there, Sorry about your cocksis.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You're right? But kids would probably.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Like that No, but Diane's right because there are kids
who are behaving who should not be subject to that
kind of punishment, and for that, for that reason, i'd
be upset as a student, and I'd be doubly upset.
Remember there was this goes back a while, but there
was a school bus driver who did not turn around
(06:12):
and risked everyone drowning.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Remember that, Oh, going through like a big like high
standing water.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Wait, there was somebody drowning talked about.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That was a few years ago. Yeah, yeah, no, wait,
there actually drowning. But the bus driver decided to go through.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh oh, turn around so you don't drown, right, Oh,
so they drove through a puddle.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yes, and remember at that time I threatened physical violence.
You also laughed then, But by the way, you got
four feet of clearance, drive on through. You're font, No,
it was dangerous. Did anybody get hurt? They didn't. But
it's not just because the ends.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Walking is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But I do it every day, doesn't me I'm okay
with the means. And you're putting a lot of faith
in that bus driver.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, that's why I that's why I hired him.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, but I think that as a parent, and you
don't realize it again. As a student, but as a parent,
you think more about the bus driver's responsibilities when it
comes to your child safety than anyone else they'll be with.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
All day at school.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm gonna argue that I didn't think, oh, these teachers
could endanger the child's life.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I never thought twice about the kids safety on the bus.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
What I never did? Oh my goodness, I never did.
I never.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I mean, would they be in an accident, yeah, maybe,
but they could have been an accident with Jackie driving
them to school or when they were driving themselves to school.
So I never But I was never like, oh, I
hope they're safe on the bus. Honestly, it never crossed
my mind.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I always felt pretty safe with our bus driver.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Remember we saw her at raw the Oh's right, Miss Liz.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Was the greatest when the kids respected her too.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Never never crossed. Safety on the bus never crossed my mind.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But as a driver, whether it's of a bus or
your own vehicle, you're no kids here come a speedbump
for everyone else on the road, too.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
True, Yeah, absolutely so, I'd.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Rather there'd be some comfort in the kids being in
a horrific accident with me or lindsay in the driver's
seat than a random oh absolutely, collection of seat the
bus goes.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
The risk for injury obviously is that much hiro unless
it's the bus that hits the car. But the but
it never I'd never crossed my mind, never crossed my mind, I.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Now thinking back.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
There were some random times where the driver would be like,
windows up and perhaps that was some via jackass. Yeah
not me again, not me right, just making sure I
had all my stuff, my clarinet, my reusable lunch bag.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
He was in the time, was not usual. Use of
both my arms.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
He was seated right behind the driver.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Everybody had brown paper lunch bags.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
They want to get in trouble. When I got home,
Line two, Hi, elliot in the morning. Hello, he's this meet? Yeah,
I got you. Who's this?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's Christopher bel Air. Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Hey? So I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, so late nineties,
we would convince our bus driver to ramp the railroad tracks.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Wait to do what's in the to ramp them? In
the bus? Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So we would off, sit on the back of the
seats and go flying through the air. It was amazing
to it. One day he went, he went full send,
and we all look over and one of my buddy's
eyeballs is hanging out of the socket.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Oh my god, did he soaked off the ceiling?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Dude that no here gade to say.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
But he got a bright new car out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The hey, did the yeah? Did the did the did
the Did the bus driver ever get busted? I mean,
obviously there was the eyeball incident, but that, by the way,
that's a cool bus driver. Like one of my apartments
was on the other side of the railroad tracks and
we used to have to cross the railroad tracks. But
our bus driver was never going was never going hard
(10:21):
like it was always you had to say. And even
if the even if the arms weren't down, the bus
driver would stop. It would be like, oh my god,
just go already. But we had to stop and cars
would honk us. It was miserable. Your bus driver's bad ass.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Oh this was the middle of nowhere, so there were
no no crossing signs, no nothing.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
It was just a set kill.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Good for you, good for you. Hey, I appreciate it,
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yes, Matt writes, you never had a bus driver decide
it was time to assign seats.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Oh yes, you know we never had that. Oh yeah
we did, because you guys were bad kids. We had
some bad kids, Yes, Matt ad sucked. Of course, signed
seats sucked.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Matt also writes, though it wasn't as bad as when
they would purposefully hit pets.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What what.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Like when it like a dog that comes to meet
its owner at the bus stop?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Apparently, so, oh god, that's awful, he says. Assigned seats
not way and hit pets.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Assigned seats sucked. I hated that. Did you ever have
to sit in one?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, see, but that's what I mean. You
forget about that and to me like it's whatever. But yeah,
when you think back, that sucked. I'm gonna give you
guys a warning whatever. And then sure enough, the next
week it would be you'd get on the bus and
there'd be a sheet of paper taped right up front
and that was your assigned seat, and that blew.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Way, Kristen, you had a driver injury a student.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Did you turn yourself on? Please? By the way, how
is it bus driver hitting pets? Matt will care for
a follow up. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
How would you you're pointing the bus at an animal. Hi, Kristen, Wait,
how did your bus driver hurt a student?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
So if you were to either walk or like lean
into the aisle, they would always yell yeah, so they
can't see down.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
The back or god forbid you got up to move seats.
Oh my god, they treated it like the bus was
on fire. Well, that.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Is what kind of happened. And so in the middle
of nowhere, there's just like open roads, so the bus
drivers are like speeding, right, And this one, my mom
gave him the name, which all the other parents did.
His name was Fat Bruce. And he would speed and
(12:48):
if somebody put their foot in the aisle or stood
in the aisle.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
He'd slam on the brakes.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
What he really, Yes, And it injured a kid because
the kids slow, we would all slam.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Into the into the seat and front of you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Well, the kid a few seats in the front broke
his collar bone.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Fat Bruce.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Yes, he was also kind of and this was before
do you remember when cameras got well maybe this was two.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well I did, Diane, I don't think.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
But he would also before the bus, like he would
stop at somebody's house, drop the kids off, and then
if somebody was still in the aisle, he would turn around,
get out of his seat, pick them up by their backpack,
and throw them into their seat.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Bruce.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
But yeah, he got suspended and then eventually got fired
because he was also drinking. And I think he died recently, so.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Bruce.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
But now that, thank you, Kristen.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But now that you mentioned the kid breaking his collarbone,
I do think we had a kid on the bus
lose a tooth.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
In the same way.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, from it. But I don't think the bus driver
stopped short intentionally.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I think they had to slam the brakes and the
kid hit his hit his mouth on the back of
the bus or the seat in front of him, I
should say. But all these stories, remember Kevin opened up
the emergency hatch on the back of the bus and
bolted about bus drivers for lack of a better term, retaliating.
They're accompanied by stories like beefies, where we would throw
(14:25):
tampon soaked in red gatoring.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Not to fat Bruce. And as Hugh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Says, there's only so much crop dusting the driver can take.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yes, you would do that, Oh my god, we all did.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh elliet, Hey, I farted fat Bruce on the way.
But you know, like, but now that you think we
would get in trouble a lot for switching seats down.
You got really good at the like you were still seated,
dart from side to side, like across the aisle, like
(15:03):
especially like if somebody got off the bus and you
wanted to sit with your other friend. Yeah, you'd dart
straight across even though you weren't supposed to.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
That was awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Matt did follow up about the pets living out in
West Virginia. She would hit neighborhood dogs and cats. We
saw it, but she would claim she didn't hit it.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Oh my god, Elliott.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That could be traumatic.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It's horrible, beyond traumatic, especially if it's your dog.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I just liked the bus ride. I didn't see nothing.
Hi Ellie in the morning. Hi, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
This is Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, ma'am. What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (15:51):
I have a good pet story. Mister Milby in elementary school,
man's probably long gone. He would bring milk bones for
my dog, be up our dog, and how happy he
would get on the side of our yard when.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
We'd come by.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
And then the end of school he slowed down in
front of our house and let our dog go on
the bus and ride to the end of our very
street so he could pet up.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Are you serious, mister?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, Now you know today today that couldn't happen because
there'd be somebody on the bus.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
A little so energy, I dander and then Karen's got
a stormy the school.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
I think we are the last stop, so we were
the only ones on the bus at that point. But yeah, totally.
There's a lot of things you can't do.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, can't dip on the bus anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes from Instagram. Sometimes the accidents are honest. My mom
used to be a bus driver for a little while
and a girl's cat ran out under the tire at
the stop and she killed it in front of the
girl getting off the bus.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh my god, whoops.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
She would though occasionally slam on the speed bumps if
the kids weren't listening.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
There you go, Hello, there you go. Let me grab
line six. Hi, yellie at the morning by Hey, who's this?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
This is cinnamon, Yes, sir, I had.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
I had a cousin and an aunt who took one
of her cats, and like three days later they were
at the bus stop and she was holding the cat
as the bus was pulling up, and the bus scared
the cat, so she dropped the cat and the cat
ran underneath. The buses tired as it was pulling up
to the bus stop, so she had to get on
the bus after watching the bus run over tugs the cat.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That I mean that that not money. No, it's not.
It's sad, is what it actually?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It was tragic.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It was tragic. Yeah, no, But what are you supposed
to do at that? Hey, thank you sir.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
So we have tubs the cat and Bruce the fat.
But what are you supposed to do? Like you should?
You really shouldn't be bringing pets to the bus.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Stop, right, well, especially some other especially West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I didn't say it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Students may be afraid of.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Dogs, right, Okay, Well that's not the reason, no, but
I think that's a good reason.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
A child may be apprehensive enough to be at a
bus stop, especially if they're a kindergarten and.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The dog, I'm not that's ridiculous. No, you should not
have a dog at a bus stop.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
The Okay, I'll give you that, but not because of
the kid could be scared of it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But also not because I realized many house pets are
being struck by.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Line for Hi Elliott the morning, Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hello? It's like we can hear you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Why you're on speaker, I can hear you. Let's get
off the speaker. Oh hold on, there you are there
you are, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
So bad but good bus driver story.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Sorry, I just walked upstairs. So the bad bus driver
was not nice to us.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
But then he wanted.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
To a pizza party at the park on the weekend,
and so we.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Were like, you hate us, why are you throwing.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Us at pizza party?
Speaker 9 (19:45):
But then none of us went, so he yelled at
us because we didn't go to the pizza party.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Wait a minute, your bus driver wanted to throw the
kids a pizza party.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No way, no on the weekend. Zero champ.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
First of all, if I go back to younger Elliott,
the last thing I'm doing is hanging out with the
bus driver at a park on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You liked hanging with the lunch ladies me.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
But now on as a as a parent, there's a
thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I'm putting a kaibosh on that, yeah, or a sting operation.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, I'm not going from I don't think he's there
going like, hey, no, everybody's got to get changed. Let's
take pictures. But it's worth looking into in case that
seems odd. There's no way that floats now. No, no, no,
no school is going to let you do that now.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But it probably wasn't sanctioned by the district.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Hey, I brought this sausage of pepperoni and uh, it's
my meat.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Lovers. You guys gonna meet me at the park. No, dude,
you're a loser.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I definitely thought her sorry was gonna end in an
arrest for past crimes.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
The no way.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
It was bad, but it was good because they took
a criminal off the sea.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Hi Elliott the morning, one, two, three, four, Go ahead,
Hi Elliott.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So this wasn't my bus route growing up, but it
was the alternative bus route if there was something wrong
from my normal And so they had this thing called
Monkey Fridays on the bus. And so if the kids
were well behaved from Monday through Thursday, on Fridays, the bus.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Driver would let every kid.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
In the bus do whatever the hell they wanted. They
would be climbing over the seats, climbing under the seat.
We were allowed to jump from aisle to aisle, and
then we would sit on the tops of the seats
and he would hit speed bumps so our heads would
hit the ceiling. This wasn't that long ago. This was
back in like two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine,
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so it wasn't like a huge kind difference. But that
was always a pleasure. When my bus was broken on a.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Friday, I like that monkey Fridays. I gotta remember that
I can't remember, Like, we definitely had like bus drivers
that did not like.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Us because of your behavior? Or were they just grumpy
cats all the time?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I think at the time I thought they were What
did you call him?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Grumpy cats?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
That's the tea speaking. Oh yeah, I hate dogs now.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
But part of it, part of it may have been,
like I'm listen, were we dicks at times?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah? Of course did you?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Were you messing with the bus driver or were you
just messing around on the bus.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Messing around like none of us, I don't. I don't
think we ever mess with the bus driver?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good the No? No? Like were we loud? Yes? Did
we throw stuff out the windows? Yes? Did we? Did
we dip on the bus? Yes? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We used to dip on the butt? I guarantee you.
Scott dipped in high school, didn't he?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
When he got older?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, yeah, but I'm sure his freshman sophomore year he
dipped on the bus.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Remember I saw Sammy Hemeline's uh titties on the buses.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
She flashed everybody the well she did.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I think when you're talking about kids, we should still say.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, she's a grown woman now.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, but I don't know if they've transitioned to the
tea or the who sammy children?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh well, okay, maybe may.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Sound more innocent in middle and high school.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So she showed her skeeters on the they were they
were not skeeters.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
They was big.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It was hurt like no, but like even like, do
you remember the girl who lived across the street from
me in middle school, Denise Koltoff.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You've mentioned her, Yeah, she had big old juggies.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Anyway, at this point, just give their middle names to Yeah,
we're so familiar with their first and last it's like,
you know, you may as well give away their entire identity.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The no, no, no, But did you did you have
a school bus driver that I'm sure you were never
misbehaved on the bus if I had to guess, other
than like maybe on the receiving end of like some
bullying the but like, was the bus driver ever angry
or so annoyed that they jacked with the kids?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't recall anything that stood out.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I wonder if and maybe that's it, maybe you just
don't remember it, But I wonder if every like even
maybe in their own subtle way, would find a way
to jack with kids. But at the time you may
not have been aware because you didn't pay attention, right.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Like, it's funny to them. They know what they're doing,
but it's hidden enough from being so obvious.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So there's a school district outside this is in Texas
is being accused of intentionally driving slowly with all of
the windows on the bus rolled up as it was
one hundred degrees in order to punish the kids on
her route last week.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well that's not good.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So the school bus driver told them, hey, everybody put
your windows up.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So everybody had to put their windows.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Uh, and then they drove at six miles per hour
just to make it hot and unbearable on the bus.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Well, the driver's suffering too, right, Well, they have their
little fan on them.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They had a little fan. Yeah front.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now it's still hot. It's still blowing hot air. Yeah,
it's still hot fart air blowing at you. But I
know those kids are suffering, and I'm smart enough to know.
All I got to do is make it another twenty minutes.
But these kids are sweating balls in the back of
the bus.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
For how long did they drive like that? About a
half hour? Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, Now the district is standing by their employee saying,
we asked the bus driver, and the bus driver said, listen,
I was just I was on a road.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I was being extra careful. I wanted to make sure
everything was fine.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So they intentionally and the school bus and the school
district said yeah, we know that there are videos on
the bus. And then they said, well the video does
raise some questions, but they let it go. They said,
the bus driver has a great history, there's no problems,
and so they're going to let it go.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So the school district cleared their own. Yes, what was
Fairfax County?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The uh now, somewhere in Texas. I don't I don't
know exactly where it was in Texas.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Oh that's right, that's right man. But if I were
if a parent there a parent, by the way, I
would bet ninety percent of the parents don't even know
this is making the news. Yeah, well now they do,
now they do. For the kids reported it all the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think some some some goody goodie got home and
they were like, why are you so sweating like it's
hot on the bus, which most kids say anyway, Yeah,
but then if you found it, would you have known
being trapped with the windows.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Okay, you're they're living. Oh man, that is hot.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
But what about if you're one of the good kids
and you're being punished there.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Too, then you should know you keep your mouth shut.
But but I, but I do want to believe that. See,
and this is a hard one because it got out
most of the kids. No no, no, no no. But
most of the kids probably had no ide that the
bus driver was jacket with them other than saying you
got to put the windows off, right, And I'm sure
(05:04):
there were some kids going like in time.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Right here.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
One of the eleven year old girls who has asthma
oh barged in her front door at home and so.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We finally feel the air right, okay, killed her? Okay,
that's dramatic. I bet you bus drivers have messed with
the door before. Oh whoops, didn't mean to hitch or oh.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Your your obnoxiously large backpack. I bought my door.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The other one that I could see if I were
a school bus driver that I think I would probably
be guilty of. Yeah, speed humps, whoops, yep, didn't mean
to make you fly there, Sorry about your cocksis.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You're right? But kids would probably.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Like that No, but Diane's right because there are kids
who are behaving who should not be subject to that
kind of punishment, and for that, for that reason, i'd
be upset as a student, and I'd be doubly upset.
Remember there was this goes back a while, but there
was a school bus driver who did not turn around
(06:12):
and risked everyone drowning.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Remember that, Oh, going through like a big like high
standing water.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Wait, there was somebody drowning talked about.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That was a few years ago. Yeah, yeah, no, wait,
there actually drowning. But the bus driver decided to go through.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh oh, turn around so you don't drown, right, Oh,
so they drove through a puddle.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yes, and remember at that time I threatened physical violence.
You also laughed then, But by the way, you got
four feet of clearance, drive on through. You're font, No,
it was dangerous. Did anybody get hurt? They didn't. But
it's not just because the ends.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Walking is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But I do it every day, doesn't me I'm okay
with the means. And you're putting a lot of faith
in that bus driver.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, that's why I that's why I hired him.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, but I think that as a parent, and you
don't realize it again. As a student, but as a parent,
you think more about the bus driver's responsibilities when it
comes to your child safety than anyone else they'll be with.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
All day at school.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm gonna argue that I didn't think, oh, these teachers
could endanger the child's life.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I never thought twice about the kids safety on the bus.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
What I never did? Oh my goodness, I never did.
I never.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I mean, would they be in an accident, yeah, maybe,
but they could have been an accident with Jackie driving
them to school or when they were driving themselves to school.
So I never But I was never like, oh, I
hope they're safe on the bus. Honestly, it never crossed
my mind.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I always felt pretty safe with our bus driver.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Remember we saw her at raw the Oh's right, Miss Liz.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Was the greatest when the kids respected her too.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Never never crossed. Safety on the bus never crossed my mind.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But as a driver, whether it's of a bus or
your own vehicle, you're no kids here come a speedbump
for everyone else on the road, too.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
True, Yeah, absolutely so, I'd.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Rather there'd be some comfort in the kids being in
a horrific accident with me or lindsay in the driver's
seat than a random oh absolutely, collection of seat the
bus goes.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
The risk for injury obviously is that much hiro unless
it's the bus that hits the car. But the but
it never I'd never crossed my mind, never crossed my mind, I.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Now thinking back.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
There were some random times where the driver would be like,
windows up and perhaps that was some via jackass. Yeah
not me again, not me right, just making sure I
had all my stuff, my clarinet, my reusable lunch bag.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
He was in the time, was not usual. Use of
both my arms.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
He was seated right behind the driver.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Everybody had brown paper lunch bags.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
They want to get in trouble. When I got home,
Line two, Hi, elliot in the morning. Hello, he's this meet? Yeah,
I got you. Who's this?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's Christopher bel Air. Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Hey? So I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, so late nineties,
we would convince our bus driver to ramp the railroad tracks.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Wait to do what's in the to ramp them? In
the bus? Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So we would off, sit on the back of the
seats and go flying through the air. It was amazing
to it. One day he went, he went full send,
and we all look over and one of my buddy's
eyeballs is hanging out of the socket.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Oh my god, did he soaked off the ceiling?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Dude that no here gade to say.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
But he got a bright new car out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The hey, did the yeah? Did the did the did
the Did the bus driver ever get busted? I mean,
obviously there was the eyeball incident, but that, by the way,
that's a cool bus driver. Like one of my apartments
was on the other side of the railroad tracks and
we used to have to cross the railroad tracks. But
our bus driver was never going was never going hard
(10:21):
like it was always you had to say. And even
if the even if the arms weren't down, the bus
driver would stop. It would be like, oh my god,
just go already. But we had to stop and cars
would honk us. It was miserable. Your bus driver's bad ass.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Oh this was the middle of nowhere, so there were
no no crossing signs, no nothing.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
It was just a set kill.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Good for you, good for you. Hey, I appreciate it,
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yes, Matt writes, you never had a bus driver decide
it was time to assign seats.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Oh yes, you know we never had that. Oh yeah
we did, because you guys were bad kids. We had
some bad kids, Yes, Matt ad sucked. Of course, signed
seats sucked.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Matt also writes, though it wasn't as bad as when
they would purposefully hit pets.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What what.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Like when it like a dog that comes to meet
its owner at the bus stop?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Apparently, so, oh god, that's awful, he says. Assigned seats
not way and hit pets.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Assigned seats sucked. I hated that. Did you ever have
to sit in one?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, see, but that's what I mean. You
forget about that and to me like it's whatever. But yeah,
when you think back, that sucked. I'm gonna give you
guys a warning whatever. And then sure enough, the next
week it would be you'd get on the bus and
there'd be a sheet of paper taped right up front
and that was your assigned seat, and that blew.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Way, Kristen, you had a driver injury a student.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Did you turn yourself on? Please? By the way, how
is it bus driver hitting pets? Matt will care for
a follow up. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
How would you you're pointing the bus at an animal. Hi, Kristen, Wait,
how did your bus driver hurt a student?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
So if you were to either walk or like lean
into the aisle, they would always yell yeah, so they
can't see down.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
The back or god forbid you got up to move seats.
Oh my god, they treated it like the bus was
on fire. Well, that.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Is what kind of happened. And so in the middle
of nowhere, there's just like open roads, so the bus
drivers are like speeding, right, And this one, my mom
gave him the name, which all the other parents did.
His name was Fat Bruce. And he would speed and
(12:48):
if somebody put their foot in the aisle or stood
in the aisle.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
He'd slam on the brakes.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
What he really, Yes, And it injured a kid because
the kids slow, we would all slam.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Into the into the seat and front of you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Well, the kid a few seats in the front broke
his collar bone.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Fat Bruce.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Yes, he was also kind of and this was before
do you remember when cameras got well maybe this was two.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well I did, Diane, I don't think.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
But he would also before the bus, like he would
stop at somebody's house, drop the kids off, and then
if somebody was still in the aisle, he would turn around,
get out of his seat, pick them up by their backpack,
and throw them into their seat.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Bruce.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
But yeah, he got suspended and then eventually got fired
because he was also drinking. And I think he died recently, so.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Bruce.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
But now that, thank you, Kristen.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But now that you mentioned the kid breaking his collarbone,
I do think we had a kid on the bus
lose a tooth.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
In the same way.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, from it. But I don't think the bus driver
stopped short intentionally.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I think they had to slam the brakes and the
kid hit his hit his mouth on the back of
the bus or the seat in front of him, I
should say. But all these stories, remember Kevin opened up
the emergency hatch on the back of the bus and
bolted about bus drivers for lack of a better term, retaliating.
They're accompanied by stories like beefies, where we would throw
(14:25):
tampon soaked in red gatoring.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Not to fat Bruce. And as Hugh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Says, there's only so much crop dusting the driver can take.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yes, you would do that, Oh my god, we all did.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh elliet, Hey, I farted fat Bruce on the way.
But you know, like, but now that you think we
would get in trouble a lot for switching seats down.
You got really good at the like you were still seated,
dart from side to side, like across the aisle, like
(15:03):
especially like if somebody got off the bus and you
wanted to sit with your other friend. Yeah, you'd dart
straight across even though you weren't supposed to.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
That was awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Matt did follow up about the pets living out in
West Virginia. She would hit neighborhood dogs and cats. We
saw it, but she would claim she didn't hit it.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Oh my god, Elliott.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That could be traumatic.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It's horrible, beyond traumatic, especially if it's your dog.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I just liked the bus ride. I didn't see nothing.
Hi Ellie in the morning. Hi, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (15:47):
This is Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, ma'am. What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (15:51):
I have a good pet story. Mister Milby in elementary school,
man's probably long gone. He would bring milk bones for
my dog, be up our dog, and how happy he
would get on the side of our yard when.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
We'd come by.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
And then the end of school he slowed down in
front of our house and let our dog go on
the bus and ride to the end of our very
street so he could pet up.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Are you serious, mister?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, Now you know today today that couldn't happen because
there'd be somebody on the bus.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
A little so energy, I dander and then Karen's got
a stormy the school.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
I think we are the last stop, so we were
the only ones on the bus at that point. But yeah, totally.
There's a lot of things you can't do.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, can't dip on the bus anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes from Instagram. Sometimes the accidents are honest. My mom
used to be a bus driver for a little while
and a girl's cat ran out under the tire at
the stop and she killed it in front of the
girl getting off the bus.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh my god, whoops.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
She would though occasionally slam on the speed bumps if
the kids weren't listening.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
There you go, Hello, there you go. Let me grab
line six. Hi, yellie at the morning by Hey, who's this?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
This is cinnamon, Yes, sir, I had.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
I had a cousin and an aunt who took one
of her cats, and like three days later they were
at the bus stop and she was holding the cat
as the bus was pulling up, and the bus scared
the cat, so she dropped the cat and the cat
ran underneath. The buses tired as it was pulling up
to the bus stop, so she had to get on
the bus after watching the bus run over tugs the cat.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That I mean that that not money. No, it's not.
It's sad, is what it actually?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It was tragic.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It was tragic. Yeah, no, But what are you supposed
to do at that? Hey, thank you sir.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
So we have tubs the cat and Bruce the fat.
But what are you supposed to do? Like you should?
You really shouldn't be bringing pets to the bus.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Stop, right, well, especially some other especially West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I didn't say it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Students may be afraid of.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Dogs, right, Okay, Well that's not the reason, no, but
I think that's a good reason.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
A child may be apprehensive enough to be at a
bus stop, especially if they're a kindergarten and.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The dog, I'm not that's ridiculous. No, you should not
have a dog at a bus stop.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
The Okay, I'll give you that, but not because of
the kid could be scared of it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But also not because I realized many house pets are
being struck by.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Line for Hi Elliott the morning, Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hello? It's like we can hear you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Why you're on speaker, I can hear you. Let's get
off the speaker. Oh hold on, there you are there
you are, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
So bad but good bus driver story.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Sorry, I just walked upstairs. So the bad bus driver
was not nice to us.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
But then he wanted.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
To a pizza party at the park on the weekend,
and so we.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Were like, you hate us, why are you throwing.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Us at pizza party?
Speaker 9 (19:45):
But then none of us went, so he yelled at
us because we didn't go to the pizza party.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Wait a minute, your bus driver wanted to throw the
kids a pizza party.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No way, no on the weekend. Zero champ.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
First of all, if I go back to younger Elliott,
the last thing I'm doing is hanging out with the
bus driver at a park on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You liked hanging with the lunch ladies me.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
But now on as a as a parent, there's a
thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I'm putting a kaibosh on that, yeah, or a sting operation.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, I'm not going from I don't think he's there
going like, hey, no, everybody's got to get changed. Let's
take pictures. But it's worth looking into in case that
seems odd. There's no way that floats now. No, no, no,
no school is going to let you do that now.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But it probably wasn't sanctioned by the district.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Hey, I brought this sausage of pepperoni and uh, it's
my meat.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Lovers. You guys gonna meet me at the park. No, dude,
you're a loser.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I definitely thought her sorry was gonna end in an
arrest for past crimes.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
The no way.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
It was bad, but it was good because they took
a criminal off the sea.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Hi Elliott the morning, one, two, three, four, Go ahead,
Hi Elliott.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So this wasn't my bus route growing up, but it
was the alternative bus route if there was something wrong
from my normal And so they had this thing called
Monkey Fridays on the bus. And so if the kids
were well behaved from Monday through Thursday, on Fridays, the bus.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Driver would let every kid.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
In the bus do whatever the hell they wanted. They
would be climbing over the seats, climbing under the seat.
We were allowed to jump from aisle to aisle, and
then we would sit on the tops of the seats
and he would hit speed bumps so our heads would
hit the ceiling. This wasn't that long ago. This was
back in like two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine,
(21:59):
so it wasn't like a huge kind difference. But that
was always a pleasure. When my bus was broken on a.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Friday, I like that monkey Fridays. I gotta remember that
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