# (Old) What's the winter forecast in the MMP? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 7, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-whats-the-winter-forecast-in-the-mmp/1008532 "2024-10-07T12:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 294
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-whats-the-winter-forecast-in-the-mmp/1008532/294 "2024-10-14T00:40:31Z")
I’m back home after my wonderful trip. I so love seeing my boy! (My boy has a little gray in his beard now, but he’s still my boy. I took the bus back to town from the train station. A nicely dressed woman with a little girl of about 3 got on with a stroller full of groceries. I offered her my seat (in the old fogies and disabled people section up front because it’s the only place I could stow my overnight case under the seat) so she could sit next to her daughter, but she said no, her daughter liked to stand. (???!) Sure enough, toddler stands just behind the yellow line and grips a horizontal bar too fat for her little fingers. The driver tells the woman the child must sit down for safety reasons. She immediately gets hostile. “She likes to stand.” “It’s a safety issue.” “Is that a new rule?” “Yes.” “Show it to me.” “I can’t right now, ma’am. Really, it’s just for her safety. If I have to slam on the brakes–” “If you have to slam on the brakes, you’re a terrible driver and shouldn’t be driving a bus!” [Apparently she’s never noticed idiot drivers who cut off buses or pull out in front of them.] “Ma’am. It’s a safety issue. When I was training, a woman broke her ankle when the bus had to stop suddenly while she was standing. Your little girl should sit down. It’s safer.” “Are you her father?” She called the customer service number and asked if it was a rule. It wasn’t. Meanwhile, her daughter is crying, and the woman totally ignores her. Then she tells her daughter to stand up because there’s no rule against holding the rail and she can ABSOLUTELY do so. Then she goes back to ignoring her daughter while she calls CS _again_ to complain that the bus driver is rude and must be a bad driver. The daughter is yelling at the bus driver and shaking her finger at him. Ugh. They finally exited at a town a little ways from mine. And at what street? _Karen_ Frasier. The woman made sure the bus driver saw her turn to glare at him. Twice. When we got to the station I told the driver I was about to call CS to commend him, complain about her, and ask that they institute a new rule about little kids holding onto the rail while the bus is in motion, as I know this woman will try it again. He was a very kind man, and I didn’t want him to worry.I called CS and said all that to them, along with a suggestion to post the rule on the buses. I don’t know why people act like that woman, but, lacking a cane like JTC, I try to neutralize the damage they do to other people’s livelihoods. I rarely say this, but I hope she saves dozens of teachers nervous breakdowns by homeschooling her child. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > GG didn’t use to want it, but now he demands his share as well. Nothing piques the appetite or makes you reconsider like someone enjoying something you turned down. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Monkey is _howling_ to go out So he’s a howler monkey? 🐒 **misnomer** , LOVE the pumpkin! > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > not that I’m planning to be standing in front of her for her rudeness and excessive sentences any time soon. I know someone who should move to Nebraska and stand before that judge. She took my bus today. She’d be in for a **rude** awakening. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I also voted for the 21-y/o candidate, figuring he’s close enough to school age to have some pretty good and current ideas. That’s a good idea in many ways. I was always trying to get my departmental colleagues to let students evaluate them–not evaluations that anyone but the teachers would see–but they refused. They said students would trash them when they’re actually good teachers. I silentlyuietly agreed with the first part but not the second. I had my students evaluate me, and had no problems with vengeful trashing. I also got some good suggestions. It’s always seemed whacko to me that principals, who aren’t in your classroom day-to-day, are the only ones to evaluate you. Students should do so, too. They do at some colleges. Sorry, I got off-track. **FCM** , I salute you for voting! 🫡 I was too hungry to cook and have little food here, so I ordered in. And it’s almost here! Oh, and **MetalMouse** , today I saw a train (parked) with about 200 boxcars–ONLY boxcars. Maybe tomorrow I’ll see one with 200 flat cars. Thanks again for the explanation! Food! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-whats-the-winter-forecast-in-the-mmp/1008532)._