• superkret@feddit.org
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    21 days ago

    Took me a while to unwrap that. Crabs is your dad complaining that you played Nintendo all night and overslept, so he has to drive you to school after you missed the bus? Did I get that right?

    Context for any other Euro readers: If you miss the bus to school in the US, there won’t be another one coming 10 minutes later.

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      21 days ago

      To be fair, even in Europe as soon as you’re out of the “city”, buses start coming fewer and fewer times during the day. Where I live, I used to get 2 buses in the morning, one one hour after the first.

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        20 days ago

        More to the point, in North America, a school bus is very different from a city bus. It’s yellow and has the single purpose of stopping only at each student’s house and the school, after which it goes and parks somewhere* until it’s time to drive everyone home at the end of the day.

        It doesn’t come back for you and there isn’t another one coming until tomorrow.

        *or switches to the next age range )which is usually staggered and in different buildings) or comes back to drive kids to field trips during the day

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      21 days ago

      Yeah that was a riddle to solve. Also if you miss the buss in the us i think the next one comes like an hour later not 10 minutes.

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        21 days ago

        School Busses in particular are not recurring. You get one in the morning to school and one in the afternoon back home.

        If you miss either one, you had to call your parents to come pick you up. Or find a different way such as with a friend, walking or taking the regular bus.