I mean, if people expect the bus to be late, they’ll get flabbergasted when it arrives on time for once
I grew up in a smallish town where the bus was ALWAYS 2-3 minutes late.
Unless you were counting on it, in which case it would miraculously be on time for the first time in months if not years 😄
Europe. Busses in my town have a clause that they arrive within +/-2 minutes of schedule.
However, to correct for this bestial treatment of driver rights to piss on people, sometimes the bus doesn’t show at all.
even when i’m late i always go to the bus stop anyway because the chances are the bus hasn’t even arrived yet lol
My bus to work has only 2 options, 10 minutes early with no tracking, or the tracking displaying “2 minutes away” for 20 minutes straight minutes after it was supposed to arrive.
I work in retail.
I guarantee this is 100% necessary and also 100% ineffective.
I grew up watching PBS; Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, The Electric Company, 321 Contact, that weird math show with the math cops… all the classroom ASSET programming, and so on.
I lived in the back-country so I assumed that everyone was into learning and being smart and understanding how everything works. I thought “Wow the future will be grand if so many people my age grew up watching the same things and wanting to learn and read and think!”
Holy shit, the last several decades have been a massive disappointment. Like, crippling depression disappointment.
Yeah, I feel you. I’m in the same boat.
Hey, you remember that PBS math show—can’t remember the name—where a group of kids go into cyberspace and have to do math shit to defeat this villain dude? Best fucking shit ever. Lol.
Edit: Figured it out! It’s Cyberchase! Like I said: best. shit. ever.
Mathnet “To cogitate and to solve”
Nope. I was thinking of Cyberchase. Lol.
I was home taught in the UK. Have a real love for learning that’s kick-started me into a career in computing that I’ve kept going for over two decades. Can’t stop, won’t stop reading, learning and improving. The number of colleagues I’ve had who just want a TL;DR on a new tech, software, plugin or system is too many. It’s our job to understand it, so we can build something so that others don’t have to. If you don’t want to understand, you’re in the wrong job role.
I got passed by a bus multiple times, called and complained but they said he probably didn’t see me,
I waved a torch and stepped into the road to force him to stop, he then let me on but proceeded to yell at me that i shouldn’t take the bus because he didn’t want to stop at my stop, despite it being on his schedule
So yeah i guess not being at the stop leads to you missing the bus, but being at the stop doesn’t necessarily help
I saw some people here do something similar to get the bus to stop. They got on, the bus driver chewed them out, then told them to get off the bus and wait for the next one or they’d call the cops.
Just wave with a brick in your hand the next time
What’s really fun is when I’m at the stop (and had been for the past hour) and watch the bus go by without so much as slowing down. Then I have to call my job and explain that the bus skipped me.
Holy Cow! I was going to say “failure to be at the bus stop 10 minutes before the scheduled time will result…” But 1 hour and a fly by? Infuriating.
What really got my panties in a bunch was when the next bus after that flew by without stopping (an hour after the previous bus).
I’m so glad I don’t ride the bus anymore.
Timing Time
A hard thing I try to get my kids to understand. The bus time is at [what:ever]. That’s when the bus leaves. Not when you roll up to the stop. Not when you step out the door. That’s butt-in-seat-leaving-time. If you’re walking up to the stop and the bus is pulling away at bus:time - too bad, so sad. That applies to many things that require you to be on time for. 5 minutes early is on time. On time is too late. Astonishing what a difficult concept that is to get across.
As a parent with a toddler who seems to be light-years away from understanding this concept, when do you think that understanding starts to kick in? Like, what can I expect at age 5 or 7?
26 here. When it does finally happen I’ll let you know. I just hated seeing all the time wasted by my parents as they arrived early so I vowed to never be like them.
You gotta start doing it with a bunch of smaller less important things. We started with things like bed time 7pm was lights out not the start or getting ready. We started around age 3 or 4 and after probably 6 months it really sunk in. When planning to leave the house we would give a 45m warning and since day 1 we never had issues. With that said though kids grasp things differently. Some kids thrive on schedules and routines…
I think for some it never takes hold. Ours are in the early teens and it’s barely starting to register.
This makes me think that the local transit authority needs to be running more pickup times at this stop
Yes ish. One could still be there at the scheduled time, but the bus could’ve been slightly early. Or the route/run could’ve fallen out. Or the bus could be full.
Clearly not a city where First runs the buses.
I’m in the UK, and First basically hold the monopoly in my city. There are so few buses that they often skip stops at rush hour because they’re already full, or because they’ve decided in the moment that your stop doesn’t matter.
Nothing wakes you up during your commute like listening to a woman get fired over the phone because she’s going to be late for work, despite still being 60 mins early for what should be a 20 min journey.
Bristol?
Yep!
Aside from the transport it’s a lovely place. I went in today and every lanyard I saw had a rainbow on it.
Do they take regular money or do they make you use credit card? I’m on a fixed income and only deal in cash.
