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Too funny! Thanks
Should of taken the 4X4 Bus eh!.... ;D
"Not his normal route." Ya think?
Love the snapshot of the hood rat with his pants hanging off his @$# trying to walk out.
Maybe Greyhound drivers are not quite as sharp as they used to be. ::)
What an idiot, taking a 45,000 lb plus bus on a dirt atv trail. What did he think was going to happen when he bottomed out on the ruts etc.
Is this another case of blindly trusting a GPS or nav system? As I've mentioned before, nothing beats having a good map and a compass, but I think it's safe to assume he wouldn't know how to use them anyway . . .
John
The article I read about it said the driver was a women, not a man.
(you know a man would have stopped and asked for directions sooner)
;D BK ;D
Quote from: gumpy on May 17, 2017, 05:17:17 PM
"Not his normal route." Ya think?
Love the snapshot of the hood rat with his pants hanging off his @$# trying to walk out.
True to your screen name, and being on the younger side of y'all it is stuff like this that has me reevaluating my active participation here.
Just out of curiosity, how far does a GH driver usually drive, in other words how far does he/she travel from his/her home base? Or do they tag-team, with one resting in a bedroom below the floor? I'm still trying to imagine any scenario that a bus driver would ever think it appropriate to detour off a paved highway, unless it was a genuine emergency. Surely by the time a bus is in desert terrain it would have a driver who's familiar with deserts and who would know that desert sand and heavy vehicles is not a happy combination. Very strange.
John
Quote from: Iceni John on May 18, 2017, 12:25:49 PM
Just out of curiosity, how far does a GH driver usually drive, in other words how far does he/she travel from his/her home base? Or do they tag-team, with one resting in a bedroom below the floor? I'm still trying to imagine any scenario that a bus driver would ever think it appropriate to detour off a paved highway, unless it was a genuine emergency. Surely by the time a bus is in desert terrain it would have a driver who's familiar with deserts and who would know that desert sand and heavy vehicles is not a happy combination. Very strange.
John
I drove for the Hound for 32 years, something not quite right here, sounds like it was done on purpose, not just a lost driver.
Just a side note, this company has really gone downhill since first Laidlaw and then First Group became involved. I was there when all this went down, was a senior instructor for many years. Centralizing dispatch is one reason this could of happened, spareboards covering other divisions without proper route training is another. Sending a driver down the road with little guidance in the middle of the night is asking for trouble.
Quote from: Diesel Oil on May 18, 2017, 06:30:48 PM
I drove for the Hound for 32 years, something not quite right here, sounds like it was done on purpose, not just a lost driver.
I'm with that idea. I think she was having some breakdown since she just kept driving and crashing and banging it up. That all was intentional. But if the quality of drivers has gone down that much, I'll be taking Uber from now on. LOL
Quote from: windtrader on May 18, 2017, 07:44:36 PM
I'm with that idea. I think she was having some breakdown since she just kept driving and crashing and banging it up. That all was intentional. But if the quality of drivers has gone down that much, I'll be taking Uber from now on. LOL
I heard she found her calling now as an Uber driver!
Quote from: Uncle Augie on May 18, 2017, 12:11:49 PM
True to your screen name, and being on the younger side of y'all it is stuff like this that has me reevaluating my active participation here.
Uncle Augie, I don't know you or anything about you so I am going to try and not hurt your feelings.
I do know Craig and many others here on this and every other busnut board there is.
And to be quite honest with you I think you are being just a tad sensitive and maybe even wearing your feelings on your shirt sleeves. Many of us here contribute lots and lots of assistance and help for other busnuts new, old, smart, not to bright and everything in between.
And most of us are of an age where we were raised to either get pants that fit or wear a belt so that our pants don't hang down past our knees exposing our underwear and other things. Personally I can't stand it when I see them wearing them like that and just assume they are just trying to show other excons they are available for anal sex as that is where that practice originated.
Please do take off the wife beater sleeveless shirts and put on a t shirt or long sleeve shirt and stick around for a while!
Really there are a bunch of us here that love helping others.
(and well yes a couple wise asses like Craig and I too!)
If you can't be comfortable sticking around with us, I'm sorry and goodbye.
(just besure to pull those pants up before the door hits ya where the good lord split ya!) Quote from: gumpy on May 19, 2017, 04:37:54 AM
I heard she found her calling now as an Uber driver!
Craig yer too much!
;D BK ;D
Quote from: B_K on May 19, 2017, 03:34:43 PM
Uncle Augie, I don't know you or anything about you so I am going to try and not hurt your feelings.
Feelings not hurt, i just wont stand for an old white man calling the only young black man in a news clip a hood rat for wearing his pants in the current fashion. I wouldn't allow that behavior from my friends, id call them out for it, i sure wont tolerate that behavior from strangers.
Born in the north, Grew up in the south, now reside in Detroit. If this was the first such instance here id let it pass, but looking for information on my new bus i have run across multiple instances where racism is bubbling just beneath the surface. Frankly it disgusts me. I have also noticed a fair bit of Islamophobia, both are born of ignorance. So no my feelings are not hurt, I just wont tolerate it. There is a reason why this online community is not growing more with all the excitement about the tiny house movement and many converting school busses into tiny houses.
Quote from: Uncle Augie on May 19, 2017, 05:07:24 PM
Feelings not hurt, i just wont stand for an old white man calling the only young black man in a news clip a hood rat for wearing his pants in the current fashion. I wouldn't allow that behavior from my friends, id call them out for it, i sure wont tolerate that behavior from strangers.
Born in the north, Grew up in the south, now reside in Detroit. If this was the first such instance here id let it pass, but looking for information on my new bus i have run across multiple instances where racism is bubbling just beneath the surface. Frankly it disgusts me. I have also noticed a fair bit of Islamophobia, both are born of ignorance. So no my feelings are not hurt, I just wont tolerate it. There is a reason why this online community is not growing more with all the excitement about the tiny house movement and many converting school busses into tiny houses.
Speaking of ignorance...
Your first post indicated you might be reevaluating your active participation here. Based on your profile, you haven't had and active participation here in the past, and from your current comments, I predict you won't have one in the future.
There was no racism implied in my comment. Period. It happens that the kid is black. So what? I didn't say anything about the color of his skin. You decided to extrapolate that from my comments, so I reckon that makes you the racist here. I was raised to respect other people, and as far as I'm concerned, hanging your pants around your knees in order to show off your underwear and ignorance in that manner is about as disrespectful as it gets to everyone around you, as well as to yourself. But it's not about his skin color. Had he been white, or yellow, or green, or any other color and had his pants hanging around his knees, my comment would have been word for word the same. So take you perceived racism and shove it up your nether regions. As for the islamophobia BS, maybe you should google 9-11 and so many other terrorist events in the recent past, and then you can shove that one up there too. Nobody appointed you the PC police, and frankly I don't give a hood rat's @$# what you think.
Grumpy, thank you for standing up for your convictions and what's with this "old white man" stuff when one is decrying prejudice? Just saying. Jack
Quote from: oltrunt on May 19, 2017, 06:51:39 PM
Grumpy, thank you for standing up for your convictions and what's with this "old white man" stuff when one is decrying prejudice? Just saying. Jack
LOL. Like I said, he extrapolated what he wanted from my simple post just so he could infer racism. That, along with his racist comment about "old white man" pretty much tells you who the racist is in the crowd. I suspect he's a disciple of the national race baiters like Sharpton, Jackson and Obama.
Quote from: gumpy on May 19, 2017, 06:43:04 PM
Speaking of ignorance...
As for the islamophobia BS, maybe you should google 9-11 and so many other terrorist events in the recent past, and then you can shove that one up there too. Nobody appointed you the PC police, and frankly I don't give a hood rat's @$# what you think.
Yes Ignorance.
http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-extremists-white-terrorism-islamist-jihadi-dangerous/ (http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-extremists-white-terrorism-islamist-jihadi-dangerous/)
QuoteSince 9/11, white right-wing terrorists have killed almost twice as many Americans in homegrown attacks than radical Islamists have, according to research by the New America Foundation.
I live near the largest population of Middle East Muslims, and Christians from the middle east, outside of the middle east. You know nothing of which you speak.
Im out, I hope management of the magazine is paying attention.
Really ?
Have you listened to their "music" ? Their conversations ? Makes me think we ain't all using the same dictionary. Or being held to the same standards.
Funny how some people see racism in everyone else, yet not in themselves.
I am so weary of people being so arrogant that they 'know' what someone else means - even tho they don't know the person.
Used to be a time when kids were taught "sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". And "no one can hurt your feelings unless you first give them permission".
Some of us were taught that respect was hard earned and were raised to give others the benefit of a doubt until actions dictated otherwise.
You will find what you seek - -
I hope we all find happy lives, safe travels, and GREAT FRIENDS (who can tolerate differing opinions).
(and in the case of this bus driver, her way home . . . . eventually ;D )
I don't care what a person's skin color is. When they exempt themselves from proper behavior based on skin color, that's a problem for me. That young man dressed like that is just such an example.
Greyhound buses and Walmart have one thing in common: the people in them.
JC
Good riddance Augie. Please be careful to not let that painted door not smack you in the @$# so you can claim some racist attack. bye bye.
Current fashion???
There is a reason why this online community is not growing ? more with many converting school busses (It's Buses) into tiny houses.
School Buses have been converted for many decades especially in the 60's and has been going since the early 1930's. Nothing new there.
Sounds like someone like many today just like to complain about everything. They watch the news and find out that they can be on TV if they go to the protest of something. Then a lot get violent and start breaking glass and then stealing from businesses on the street. They say they have a cause but all they are doing is filling their-self worth which isn't much IMHO
The majority of them are from somewhere else and have just come to create havoc or are paid to create Havoc.
You can say what you want about we Old Men but at least we were taught respect and morals....
Sure there are those out there who are still racists but Racism works both ways not just one. So you might pickup a mirror and take a good hard look in it.....Just sayin :(
Sniff, sniff, sob, sob I miss him already!
;D BK ;D
What was his name again? LOL
Is this the style today?
OMG, that's the most repulsively disgusting thing I think I've ever seen. Words fail me. (And for an opinionated and verbose person like me who thinks of himself as open-minded and accepting of others, that's saying a lot.)
Geoff, please don't post anything like that again, ever!
John
Quote from: Geoff on May 20, 2017, 08:13:27 PM
Is this the style today?
Mmmmm, Fresh Cracklins!
I wear suspenders seems my chest has migrated down ward.. Don't see how that design lets someone walk less climb a ladder or move anything at work. Boy this is thread drift! We are busnuts and help anyone that is respectful of us. Apparently the bus seat occupier had no respect for equipment or people. Notice I did not say DRIVER. Thread drift is needed sometimes. Bob
Quote from: robertglines1 on May 21, 2017, 07:09:21 AM
I wear suspenders seems my chest has migrated down ward.. Don't see how that design lets someone walk less climb a ladder or move anything at work. Boy this is thread drift! We are busnuts and help anyone that is respectful of us. Apparently the bus seat occupier had no respect for equipment or people. Notice I did not say DRIVER. Thread drift is needed sometimes. Bob
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Thread drift. Who said pant draggers worked? You would have thought driver would have stopped at the first sight of dirt out of the middle of knowwhere. Don't worry, the Union will take care of driver. Probably give her a promotion. ::)
Quote from: Iceni John on May 20, 2017, 08:30:48 PM
OMG, that's the most repulsively disgusting thing I think I've ever seen. Words fail me. (And for an opinionated and verbose person like me who thinks of himself as open-minded and accepting of others, that's saying a lot.)
Geoff, please don't post anything like that again, ever!
John
Yes, that is shocking, a discount tobacco and liquor store that also sells gasoline! ;D
I am just leaving the SF Bay area after culture shock, back to sleepy Prescott, AZ.
--Geoff
Sad to see you go today. Wished you could have stayed for the next protest downtown. I got some VIP tix for us; guess I'll give your tix and bat to someone else. In fact, putting a pro Trump sticker on any car is a sure way to come back to a bashed in window.
Quote from: windtrader on May 21, 2017, 02:26:06 PM
Sad to see you go today. Wished you could have stayed for the next protest downtown. I got some VIP tix for us; guess I'll give your tix and bat to someone else. In fact, putting a pro Trump sticker on any car is a sure way to come back to a bashed in window.
Is that worse than a pro Hilary sticker?
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Exactly why we live in West Roseville ;D
QuoteIs that worse than a pro Hilary sticker?
Uh... update your location in your profile. The SF Bay Area is SO liberal it is suffocating.
Quote from: windtrader on May 21, 2017, 11:14:13 PM
Uh... update your location in your profile. The SF Bay Area is SO liberal it is suffocating.
What profile?
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Quote from: Zephod on May 22, 2017, 01:27:25 AM
What profile?
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Click on your name to see your profile and add information. You are also being ignored by four members.
--Geoff
Holy s#!& Geoff! There are things you just can't unsee! (LOL).
I've seen it all in the Bay Area. In Berkeley they used to have the naked man who strolled the streets and attended City Council meetings in his favorite un-attire. Seems he wasn't breaking any local laws. As far as the fashionable man at the gas station in Louisiana, he is right under the "FRESH CRACKLINS" sign.
--Geoff
Quote from: Geoff on May 22, 2017, 07:34:52 AM
Click on your name to see your profile and add information. You are also being ignored by four members.
--Geoff
Ah well, I use Tapatalk so I can't d much with the profile.
I guess those 4 must just hate school bus converters since I barely ever post. Or they could have been from the schoolbus group and got their feathers ruffled when I called people there on their not actually owning schoolbusses but posting as though they did. So obvious!
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Quote from: Geoff on May 22, 2017, 07:34:52 AM
You are also being ignored by four members.
--Geoff
So are you and me :)
and Clifford :)
and (add someone here)
I am still ahead of you guys and I don't know what I did to deserve it.. I have 6, LOL ;D
I'm down one from 4. Must be the pic.
--Geoff