Bus stop pickup insanity

[EliteRetard]

I walked every day at least 2 miles, with a weighted bag on my back (at least 5lb per grade).
Whether walking to school, or a weekend hiking trip...both my parents were leaders of boy/girl scouts.
My parents also trained all of us kids (including my sisters) how to defend ourselves before starting first grade.
By the time we were ten (when we received our first blades) we all knew how to handle a knife, I always carry at least one.
We were also taught common sense and how to care for and maintain most basic things (medical, cars, plumbing, electrical, etc).

I'm pretty disgusted with how rare "common sense" is now, amazing how pathetic, lazy, weak, and stupid America has gotten (on average).

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Did someone say Bus Stop?

 

[IronWing]

^ Gym class in the 70s.

 

[Spacehead]

Apparently they did away with bus stops here, at least in the school district i went to. Each kid is picked up/dropped off at their house.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

^ Gym class in the 70s.

Bus Stop line dace!

 

[randay]

Rent a white cube van. Put a free candy magnet sign on the side. Get there early and park close to the school bus stop.

rent? naw save your money you can just borrow mine!

 

[BUTCH1]

I see a similar thing at fast-food drive thru, I'll park and walk inside to an almost empty store and see15-20 vehicles crawling along, damm, have people gotten THAT lazy?. If it were up to me I'd ban drive-thru except early AM or for when the store stops inside service.

 

[Exterous]

I see a similar thing at fast-food drive thru, I'll park and walk inside to an almost empty store and see15-20 vehicles crawling along, damm, have people gotten THAT lazy?. If it were up to me I'd ban drive-thru except early AM or for when the store stops inside service.

Yeah I see that too. If its a long line I'll park, go inside and get my food way faster than sitting in line

 

[Scarpozzi]

I'm sure the world is safer these days than it used to be, but we often feel the opposite because the news is way more effective at scaring us with those stories.

My kids are 5 and 7 at the moment. I don't know when I would feel safe letting them walk through my neighborhood. There aren't sidewalks and we do get occasional riff raff soliciting stuff like any other neighborhood without a gate.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Just looked up my hometown, was apparently doing 0.6 of a mile from third grade until middle school, no assistance or crossing guards of any kind, mostly neighborhood though and never snowy/crap conditions.

Rarely I'd do a 2M walk from high school, that was only when my lameass didn't have a ride though.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Crazy how times have changed, back when I was a kid we were way more independent and we walked to the bus stop and waited as normal without parents. I even remember once there was a blizzard and I was facing away from wind and it was garbage day and I'm just seeing random bottles and papers and stuff from recycling bins flying from behind me. Thinking to myself I hope I don't get hit in back of the head lol. But I survived.

I live near a school and it's insane at 3pm. The entire street is packed with idling cars with buses then trying to get through. I just don't remember it being that way back when I was a kid. To be fair there's more crazies out there now than there were when I was a kid but the crazies tend to hang out more downtown not in residential areas.

On similar subject, due to climate change our winters now are super tame compared to before, yet there seems to be way more snow days now. They even issue snow days "just in case". Back when I was in school they were based on the actual weather, not the forecast. Typically it was mostly due to cold, like when it hits -50 the buses have a hard time starting and it's a hazard to be out for too long.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

On similar subject, due to climate change our winters now are super tame compared to before, yet there seems to be way more snow days now. They even issue snow days "just in case". Back when I was in school they were based on the actual weather, not the forecast. Typically it was mostly due to cold, like when it hits -50 the buses have a hard time starting and it's a hazard to be out for too long.

I've rambled about this in other threads, but my GF who grew up where we now live has stated definitively several times that the temps used to be colder on avg, and they probably got more snow on avg, but now we have a) massive drops in temperatures, like from 30 to -30 windchill overnight, and b) huge snowstorms, dropping multiple inches of rain (ice) followed by multiple feet overnight rather than just sorta snowing throughout the season.

 

[kn51]

Yeah I see that too. If its a long line I'll park, go inside and get my food way faster than sitting in line

Yeah, but if you notice they'll prioritize the orders. The metrics for drive-thru wait time are probably a big deal for HQ. My personal preference is to go in no matter what. Maybe I'm weird but I at least get some semblance of what goes in my bag.

As for bus stops, see it every day. Several minivans down the street waiting for the bus. Rows of cars picking up kids at school. Best one was driving to work and would pass the house. Parent would meet the bus down their driveway which was around a couple hundred feet. Then reverse back down the driveway. Like clockwork. Also enjoy when when the bus driver and a parent need to have a ten minute chat everyday for some reason.

Oh well, time for me to yell at the clouds.

 

[nakedfrog]

I see a similar thing at fast-food drive thru, I'll park and walk inside to an almost empty store and see15-20 vehicles crawling along, damm, have people gotten THAT lazy?. If it were up to me I'd ban drive-thru except early AM or for when the store stops inside service.

I see people eating in the parking lot in their idling cars too...

Yeah, but if you notice they'll prioritize the orders. The metrics for drive-thru wait time are probably a big deal for HQ. My personal preference is to go in no matter what. Maybe I'm weird but I at least get some semblance of what goes in my bag.

They are, and in some cases they're kind of absurd. I knew someone that worked at Taco Bell, and their target was one minute--mind you, that includes the time it takes for the person to order.

 

[K1052]

I see a similar thing at fast-food drive thru, I'll park and walk inside to an almost empty store and see15-20 vehicles crawling along, damm, have people gotten THAT lazy?. If it were up to me I'd ban drive-thru except early AM or for when the store stops inside service.

Love encountering drive thru lines like that when I go home. The Starbucks is particularly bad. Not a soul inside except employees making dozens of venti frappacinos for all the SUVs in the drive thru line.

 

[clamum]

I f*cking hate those huge ass ugly SUVs that so many drive around, like an Escalade is somehow impressive. I guess to some it is. But yeah, I get why they drive them, I mean they're definitely useful dropping a couple kids off at school and shopping for groceries at the store.

FLAME ON

 

[HomerJS]

I had to walk 1.2 miles to school. My parents had to walk 5 miles in the snow, uphill, both ways.

Anyone else see we are migrating towards door to door service.

 

[sdifox]

I had to walk 1.2 miles to school. My parents had to walk 5 miles in the snow, uphill, both ways.

Anyone else see we are migrating towards door to door service.

E-Learning

 

[JEDIYoda]

An update to my post-- while walking 6 + miles to school one way we had to do it descending down a 4,000 ft mountain and then ascending back up the 4.000 ft mountain!!

 

[BUTCH1]

I f*cking hate those huge ass ugly SUVs that so many drive around, like an Escalade is somehow impressive. I guess to some it is. But yeah, I get why they drive them, I mean they're definitely useful dropping a couple kids off at school and shopping for groceries at the store.

FLAME ON

Yea, I don't get it, if I had the wherewithal to blow $60K on a vehicle I'd be shopping for a Cobra Mustang or perhaps a BMW M-series. A minivan can do 90% of what an SUV can do at 50% of the cost.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Love encountering drive thru lines like that when I go home. The Starbucks is particularly bad. Not a soul inside except employees making dozens of venti frappacinos for all the SUVs in the drive thru line.

I always do that at Tim Hortons, I will notice the last vehicle in line and then park and go inside, and when I come out with my coffee I will check where that vehicle is at in the line.

Depends which one though, some are faster than others. I find the ones with 2 lanes always have a lane that is faster as well so if I DO use the drive thru I make sure to get in the faster one.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Speaking of gas guzzling SUVs/vehicles, what I would really love to see is an EV truck that has the same performance as a car, I don't care about how much it can pull, I just want an 8x4 box to put lumber and other stuff in. Even a small car can pull a few thousand pounds, which is more than enough for the typical stuff a home owner will put in a truck. I bought an F150 because of the need to haul stuff, but I also kinda feel bad for the fact that I'm polluting way more when I don't really NEED that power.

It's one of the reasons I keep wanting to buy an off grid property, I want to build a garage so I can learn to work on cars, and one of my first practical projects would be an EV conversion. Companies are too slow at making EVs available at a decent price or to make them widely available enough that a used market develops, so I'm just going to make my own.

 

[EliteRetard]

I knew a guy about 10 years ago who built the fastest electric car (white zombie if I recall).
Him and his friends had some other really interesting projects.

They had found a more efficient way to do electrolysis and combined that with a standard ICE to get like 80mpg (plus like a liter of water per tank?).

Also built a perpetual "generator" that used magnets, but it didn't put out much power. It was just a small portable mock-up, maybe 40lbs.
It's an idea I had thought about for a long time myself, after seeing theirs I have considered many ways to improve output (like utilizing gravity).
I wonder why it seems nobody else is researching this, everyone knows magnets and gravity are the closest thing to "free" clean energy (that we know of).

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah I see that too. If its a long line I'll park, go inside and get my food way faster than sitting in line

Especially if they have mobile app ordering (Chick-Fil-A).

 

[sdifox]

I knew a guy about 10 years ago who built the fastest electric car (white zombie if I recall).
Him and his friends had some other really interesting projects.

They had found a more efficient way to do electrolysis and combined that with a standard ICE to get like 80mpg (plus like a liter of water per tank?).

Also built a perpetual "generator" that used magnets, but it didn't put out much power. It was just a small portable mock-up, maybe 40lbs.
It's an idea I had thought about for a long time myself, after seeing theirs I have considered many ways to improve output (like utilizing gravity).
I wonder why it seems nobody else is researching this, everyone knows magnets and gravity are the closest thing to "free" clean energy (that we know of).

Yeah no.