OK so who remembers riding the bus in NC as a kid? Legs sticking to the seat when you wore shorts?

I mean parents complain about so much shit today..................

No seatbelts, no AC, crank the window down and thats all!!

and don't forget about sitting in the rear of the bus to get a little air as the bus jumped over bumps too!! weeeeeeeeeee

[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 6:00 PM. Reason : back seat]

8/14/2007 5:59:10 PM

the back of the bus is where the all stoners sat so they could smoke cigarettes and pot.

...or so i read.

8/14/2007 6:10:11 PM

yeah, it's a true miracle we all aren't dead from one thing or another with all the stuff that's considered so bad/dangerous now.

8/14/2007 6:16:08 PM

no a/c on the buses. is this seriously a complaint? hell, i remember when the school had no a/c. they'd let out an hour or two early on the really hot days.

8/14/2007 6:44:20 PM

i do think it's bullshit that buses of all kinds aren't required to have seatbelts

i had the distinct pleasure of getting to see two dead bodies sprawled in the HOV lane in Atlanta a month or so ago when the limo bus they were in hit the median jersey barriers and ejected them into the oncoming traffic...absolutely disgusting and something that would not have happened if they had any sort of restraints

8/14/2007 6:48:35 PM

man, most of the public schools in the city I grew up in didn't have AC (average size city of approx 300k people). But apparently the local state prison had to have AC since it would be considered cruel and unusal punishment if it didn't.

8/14/2007 10:52:17 PM

They also have healthier lunches.

8/14/2007 11:23:43 PM

wake county rectangle pizza '88-'93

8/15/2007 8:24:27 AM

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"no a/c on the buses. is this seriously a complaint? hell, i remember when the school had no a/c. they'd let out an hour or two early on the really hot days."

i remember this too

8/15/2007 8:53:46 AM

They have A/C on the buses now?! Things have changed. I too remember sweating out early June and late August in my ancient Guilford County public school buildings.

As for buses and seat belts, weren't the seats designed so that kids wouldn't have to have seat belts? I thought that's what those really high, padded seat backs were for (not that the kids would wear their seat belts anyways).

8/15/2007 10:18:23 AM

The difference is that they didn't have year round schools back then, and you didn't have school buses packed with children on 100+ degree days.

8/15/2007 11:28:11 AM

^^^^haha, that stuff was ftw! i brought my lunch, but i'd always have to get a piece of that pizza a few times a week.

i remember no a/c in school also. i think it was 4th grade maybe before we had it?

8/15/2007 4:21:58 PM

i completed grade school a/c free. i think they installed window units in my elementary school the year i started 7th grade at junior high, then tore down the building a couple years later and rebuilt the school a couple mile up the road. as a reference, my grandmother attended school in the same elementary school that i did. she's now 85.

[Edited on August 15, 2007 at 9:02 PM. Reason : .]

8/15/2007 9:01:49 PM

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"no a/c on the buses. is this seriously a complaint? hell, i remember when the school had no a/c. they'd let out an hour or two early on the really hot days."

Yep. The building I was in for 3rd and 4th grade had no A/C (built in the 40's I think). They finally put in what were effectively giant window units when I was in 6th grade, but by that time I was in a different (newer) building.

[Edited on August 15, 2007 at 9:36 PM. Reason : s]

8/15/2007 9:36:06 PM

my elementary school was built in the 1930s. We had a furnace and heating coils on the walls for the winter.

8/15/2007 9:54:58 PM

Boiler room and radiators FTW.....

8/15/2007 10:32:04 PM

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"but apparently the local state prison had AC"

yeah, for realz, yo

i dont know which is better. being in prison, or being an illegal immigrant. from all i hear, either way is a first-class ticket on the gravy train.

oh, well. I aint got time to worry about this stuff. im off to northern Idaho to sell more sawed-off shotguns. baby needs a new pair of shoes.

8/15/2007 11:28:05 PM

we didn't have a/c until high school (retrofitted). i attended the same high school as both parents and one set of grandparents.

8/16/2007 2:29:17 PM

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"i do think it's bullshit that buses of all kinds aren't required to have seatbelts"

yeah thats always seemed pretty odd to me

8/16/2007 2:54:23 PM

My dad and I were talking about this type of thing last weekend. He said he saw a news story about a fund to help poor people pay their A/C bill or something like that.

The first A/C that my grandparents had was when they moved into the nursing home in their 80's. I only had A/C one year out of the 13 that I spent in Rocky Mount/Nash County schools (5th Grade.) When I moved into Owen Hall back in 1997 we didn't have A/C. Why do I give a fuck about helping someone who can't afford their A/C? Just turn it off and run a fan. People are so fucking weak and spoiled these days.

8/17/2007 8:38:14 AM

What does that have to do with small children packed in school buses in the middle of the summer?

8/17/2007 8:42:20 AM

I'm pointing out that A/C is nothing more than a luxury. A bus has windows. It gets air flow. The kids will be just fine. If you really think it matters that schools are year round now then I'd point out that local YMCAs have been running day camps during the summer for decades. The tens of thousands of kids packed onto their buses all ended up just fine (myself included.)

Don't let your children grow up to be whiney bitches.

8/17/2007 9:44:35 AM

kids can't lose in sports anymore
kids must have ac
kids must have etc

no wonder china is about to take over the world

8/17/2007 11:21:29 AM

Damn, I drive the fucking bus myself and I don't complain about heat. It's really not that much too it. Don't be a colossal fat ass and drink water instead of soda.

8/17/2007 5:24:28 PM

the school system I work in is starting to buy air conditioned buses now, but I think it's a good thing. If they want to start school before Labor Day and run it past Memorial Day, they need it. I sure hated to ride those hot buses, especially on the days they let us out for the heat. the high school where I work is the one I graduated from, and some of the students have to ride over 30 miles. we thought it was a big deal when we got the ones with tinted windows and blue seats that didn't get as hot. we still have a lot of 20+ year old buses though.

8/17/2007 10:23:43 PM