This sign certainly came to exist after some Karen was late and complained that the bus didn’t wait for her to arrive.
I picked up a package from the post office. They had a sign saying “ring the bell once for service, two or more for a weather report”. I image this has a similar back story.
I don’t get it. Is this a play on whether they report to you or not?
I might have said “two or more to speak with our complaint department.”
Customers only get service if they ring the bell once. If Karen comes and rings the bell ten times, Karen won’t get the service she wants. Instead she’ll get an inane conversation about the weather
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.
What are the cops going to do ? Shoot all the passengers ?
Taze the person that got on the bus, shoot their dog, and charge them with resisting arrest probably.
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 😄
And then promptly leave early because it waits and ‘corrects’ time at a different random stop in the middle of no where? That happens a lot here.
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.
Was it one of the segments in Square One Television?
I don’t think Square One was what the user above was referencing, but it’s certainly what I was thinking of! I loved that show, I grew up in isolation basically so I had no idea it was considered weird to love math and had an affinity for math, but Square One and other PBS shows were the closest thing I had to any kind of formal education.
I was thinking of Cyberchase. Haha.
Mathnet “To cogitate and to solve”
Nope. I was thinking of Cyberchase. Lol.
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.
