Heh…the bus DID crack open when my kid got ahold of it!!!
I should add - they’re flimsy plastic so that they don’t cause any damage to anything they might hit as they’re being swung open.
As effective as they are as a safety measure, they’re a monumental pain in the butt. The motors freeze in the winter - sometimes with the arm out.
That was just the window, right?
I am now visualizing buses breaking open like so many large yellow Easter eggs, to reveal…children! (well, teens).
they blink in the strong sunlight, peer over the roof and start pecking for sustenance.
Cripes–I need to get out more.
Bwah!!!
The bus equivalent to toilet paper on your shoe!
Hee hee hee… 
Ok, but stay away from the front of the bus.
I promise.
This place has made me deviant.
I am now fantasizing about bus wrecks (no one is hurt) like some kind of train wreck/snuff film.
If the Bar is stuck in the out position, isn’t that a bit like a guy being stuck with the results of his Viagra? Do the buses in the garage plot and plan against one another? Do the drivers mourn the passing of good ole #734?
Eek, now it’s turned into Berty the Bus in my head–sorta like Thomas the Tank, but with bright yellow sex.
Perhaps I should seek professional help… :eek:
Bright Yellow Sex? :dubious:
Oh, come now. Surely you have had bright yellow sex?
Well, you’ve had moody blue sex, no? 
BYS is the opposite–the Archies are singing and the sun is shining and you either get to ride a bus or drive it! Ultimate: sex ON the bus!
Work with me here, kay?
I never, ever want to have sex on a bright yellow school bus. That’s just wrong on every level, even if there aren’t kids present.
“Will all parties with Mutant Powers please report to the Department for Social Control at 14:00 today. Failure to do so will result in violence.”
I make no admissions about sex on any bus, no ma’am, not even as a high school lad on the way home from a basketball game with Marian Catholic.
Note: No cheerleaders were harmed in the making of this non-cofession.
I have definitely have had moody blue loving. “Nights in White Satin” was our Wedding song.
Never the BYS however.
Jim
Dayum–the cheerleaders rode with you? That’s some athletic program you had!
Lissla --bus is empty–no kids. Sex on a bus with kids is just plain wrong. They’re often 3 to a seat, so there is no room.
(I really don’t want sex on a bus–but I like playing with MBG).
And I have had Bright Yellow Sex. but sex is usually pinkish to a nice warm brown for me now.
We had to conserve money. The coach hated it, he couldn’t yell at us after we got beat because the girls were there.
And you’re right, the seats are slippery and cold. Thank goodness for those little skirts they wear. Hypothetically I mean.
True Bus Guy Sex on a Bus Story:
A few years ago I heard that two of my drivers were having BYS in the mornings while they were getting ready to leave the lot.
Your intrepid invstigator first asked in a non-confrontational manner and upon getting the denial, admonished that it should stay that way and let it drop.
Well, not really.
The next morning, I got in before everyone, hid my car by parking it in the landscaper’s place next door and sat in the bus next to good ole’ 641.
Drivers start milling out to start and pre-trip (DOT inspection) their buses, the one I’m hiding in doesn’t run in the mornings, so I scrunch down and wait.
Minutes later, I see shadows walking down the aisle in 641. Two shadows where there should be one.
I slink out, and walk to the back of 641, grab the emergency exit door, and…well there you go, the Morning Hummer in full swiing.
Immediate termination, as in on the spot, go home now.
Next day, I have a very, very angry wife in my office asking why I fired the wage-earner just like that for no reason. I of course, can’t share with her just exactly what he was doing - or having done - but I suggest she ask her husband.
The shop helpers did rock/paper/scissors to see who had to wash the interior of 641 next time it came due.
I KNEW there’d be a great bus story and sex if I waited long enough!
Thanks.
[confused Georgette voice] but, MBG, you said it was a school bus–not a Hummer[confused Georgette voice]
Guess that depends on the point of entry, eh?
:eek:
Ack–not what I meant at all!
I won’t be referring to sex in colors anymore… :eek:
Not sure about all of them, or whether the arm works the same way as the little stop signs on the left side.
When I was a teenager, I went on a retreat with my youth group. It was out in the country and we went up on a schoolbus and the driver’s wife followed him and drove him back to New Orleans so he wouldn’t waste 30 gallons of gas driving the bus an extra round trip.
Anyway, that night, me and some of my friends boarded the bus via the rear emergency door to get some luggage or pillows or something out of the bus. We thought that hanging out on the schoolbus and smoking cigarettes and opening all the windows and playing with the controls was pretty cool and we stayed a while.
When we got off the bus, we went through the front door, and someone had activated the flashing lights at some point and when we opened the door, the stop signs opened up. We made sure everything was shut off and closed up the bus, but the stop signs didn’t close. We couldn’t figure it out so we just left it.
At the end of the trip when the driver came back, I told him that we went on the bus to get something and the stop signs just opened up (not mentioning anything else we might’ve done in the process) and he explained that they worked on the bus’s vacuum. Even with the motor off, there was enough of a vacuum to open them one time, but not to pull them shut.
Sorry for the longwinded hijack, but I’m thinking that the arms that stick out the front probably operate the same way.
I remember these came out (became mandatory in La.) after 1991 when I graduated from high school, but not long after. I wouldn’t think there are any buses that old in service anymore. Most of the schoolbuses I see anywhere that I go are no more than a few years old. Someone told me it was because the older buses don’t meet the current safety standards.
I never thought I would have ever met another who backed into a parked school bus. I am quite famous for it here… and I still drive, but I try to avoid school traffic.
Got that beat. A woman in my family drives a school bus.
She was in her bus one morning, having just finished inspecting the bus prior to leaving the lot for her first trip. The vehicle was stopped.
A loaded tractor trailer entered the bus lot with the intention of using it to turn around. The driver managed to collide with the bus, causing insults to it beginning behind the front entry/exit door and ending at the front right corner of the bus.
The trucker DID NOT NOTICE that he had hit the bus, and continued on his way out of the parking lot.
The bus driver managed to flag the trucker down when he was trapped on their lot by traffic, waiting for an opening to get back onto the street.