Author Topic: The oatmeal: Why I didn't like riding the bus as a kid.  (Read 3030 times)

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/bus

teel deer: Read the entire loving thing, it's awesome.

My bus goes like this: Middle rows get picked on, and the kids that sit in the back (At least lat year, now it's me sitting in the back) would forget with the bus driver. One day, they brought a moth into the bus, let it loose, and screamed. The 400 pound bus driver came back there, it landed on his shirt, and one of the kids slapped it and streaked it down his shirt.

Some kids like to make national socialist bombers. They would decorate a paper airplane with swastikas and fill the center with nasty stuff.

Then, they would throw it at the center of the bus.

One time, the bus driver started speaking, and one of the kids screeched, "Shut up you fatass!" He then put the microphone down and did not speak.

I have plenty more bus tales, my bus used to be one of the worst busses in the county. Well, imo.

This bus is NOTHING compared to that bus, though.

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About mid-way through its route our bus passed along an explosives factory which produced dynamite for removing tree stumps and other small demolition projects. When this factory caught fire, they had to evacuate an area a few square miles around our route because the resulting explosion was supposed to be on par with a poor man's nuclear bomb -- one or two kilotons. When normal people are informed that there's a very real possibility that everything they've ever known and loved with be burned alive, their typical reaction is fear or sorrow. When they announced it to the kids on our bus, however, everyone began cheering and throwing their backpacks into the air. It seemed appropriate that these soulless little stuffheads would erupt in celebration upon learning that our little Idahoan middle-earth was going to be engulfed in an all consuming fireball.

I lol'd at that.
« Last Edit: December 06, 2010, 05:10:43 PM by Jorici »

I just started to ride the bus to schoolm and holy stuff that was good.

I sit where Vietnam is a sunny place to have a tour :3.

In 2nd grade, the substitute bus driver called me a dingaling and told me to sit down because I commented on his unorthodox driving.

I would hate to be a bus driver.

I enjoy The Oatmeal so much. Hyperbole and a Half, too. :3

Nothing intresting happens on the one I ride, in fact, it's like 6:30 - 7:00 am in the morning, so everyone just sits down and usually dosn't say much.


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About mid-way through its route our bus passed along an explosives factory which produced dynamite for removing tree stumps and other small demolition projects. When this factory caught fire, they had to evacuate an area a few square miles around our route because the resulting explosion was supposed to be on par with a poor man's nuclear bomb -- one or two kilotons. When normal people are informed that there's a very real possibility that everything they've ever known and loved with be burned alive, their typical reaction is fear or sorrow. When they announced it to the kids on our bus, however, everyone began cheering and throwing their backpacks into the air. It seemed appropriate that these soulless little stuffheads would erupt in celebration upon learning that our little Idahoan middle-earth was going to be engulfed in an all consuming fireball.

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The fire was put out, however, and no one died. Years later, however, my brother and I took an interest in building explosives ourselves and we began building bombs using supplies purchased from a local sporting goods store. You had to be 18 to buy a gun, but you could buy smokeless black powder and waterproof cannon fuses without getting carded. We'd spend our summers creating new and exciting pipe bombs and detonating them in the woods. We weren't hurting anybody, we just liked creating craters where old trees used to be and producing massive fireballs and brain-trauma-inducing concussive shockwaves. Shrapnel was a problem too, but most of the time we'd just stand near a tree or crouch down a little to avoid the bits of metal that whizzed by our heads.

Shrapnel safety 101 with the Inman brothers

We eventually decided to teach one of our friends how to build bombs so he could also take part in our fun blow-stuff-up-to-smithereens adventures. He'd come over and we'd all build bombs together and then go find an old shed or dead animal to splatter into unrecognizable bits. One particularly popular type of bomb we'd make is what we called a "crater maker," which involved filling an empty CO2 cartridge with black powder and sealing it with a fuse. One Christmas this friend of ours decided it would be a good idea to give these to his friends as gifts so they could take them home and have fun blowing things up like we did. He wrapped them in adorably festive Christmas wrapping paper and applied an equally adorable Christmas bow. He then handed them out to all his buddies as they boarded the school bus. He specifically instructed them NOT to open them until they got home from school, and I clearly remember one kid shaking the box next to his head and saying "What's inside? I can hear it rattling."
I would do something like this if I had the materials.
« Last Edit: December 06, 2010, 05:28:46 PM by JamestheLeet »

teel deer: Read the entire loving thing, it's awesome.

What kind of lazyman doesn't read the whole thing.

Also, I happen to agree about the mexicans part.

I think its less busses and more Idaho.


After all, Idaho is the worst place on Earth.




That intire article is so freaking true
And I ALWAYS get forgeted with on the bus

Little stuffs. It's EXACTLY like my bus, full of idiots and facist freaks.