# You be me for a while, and I'll be you..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263 "2006-05-03T18:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/1 "2006-05-03T18:04:41Z")
Ok, so for a day, YOU are the **Bus Guy**. What are you gonna do? Make a new\*\* Bus Guy Rule\*\*, something that all the people here have to follow, establish a new policy for kids or schools to abide by. While you’re at it, what’s your job, so I can come in for a while and do some damage to the status quo in your neck of the woods? What should I do to rattle things a bit? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/2 "2006-05-03T18:25:44Z")
I love The Replacements! ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/3 "2006-05-03T23:41:37Z")
I’m sorry, **Mr Bus Guy** , I can’t go to work because I’ll be staying home all day checking out what it’s like to have a penis!! I’m an exec. assistant. Go wild. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/4 "2006-05-04T00:26:42Z")
Radio playing will be punished by ejecting the radio first. Only afterwards, the owner. I’m a forensic pathologist working for the govt doing autopsies on homicides etc. Whatcha wanna do first? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/5 "2006-05-04T01:11:32Z")
I’m a student. Wanna date/mingle/have sex with/be around pretty co-eds? Wait a tick…I’m getting this shitty end of this deal. ABORT!! ABORT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/6 "2006-05-04T01:19:43Z")
OK here’s my rule as Mr. Bus Guy: The cool kids sit in the front and the nerds/geeks/shy ones sit in the exalted\* Back of the Bus\*! 🙂 I’m a bank teller…watch out for the cameras! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/7 "2006-05-04T14:36:08Z")
\*\*gabriela: \*\* I want to use one of those saws to cut open someone’s skull. Do they have to be dead first? **LOUNE:** Too late, you offered! Tell you what, you get an air conditioned van to drive. **Luna:** I like your rule! We do it! I’ll bring spray paint for the cameras. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/8 "2006-05-04T17:04:12Z")
Hmph. An air-conditioned van. Whoopee. Is it the Girls Gone Wild van? Will there be snacks on this flight? Sweeten the deal somehow!..please? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/9 "2006-05-04T17:32:24Z")
Ok, all kids are to _SIT DOWN, SHUT UP and not move_, I remind you riding _inside_ the bus is a privilege, not a _right_, after all, there’s plenty of room on the _roof_ of the bus, and duct tape can hold _anything_ in place if applied liberally enough… My job, an Apple Authorized Mac repair tecnician, you’ll get to take stuff apart and put it back together all day… ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/10 "2006-05-04T17:36:46Z")
New bus rule: $20 lets you drive for 5 minutes. New bank rule: One for you one for me. New coroner rule: blame the dead guy for the bus wreck and bank robbery. My job, aid worker in Baghdad ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/11 "2006-05-04T17:52:26Z")
I’m an environmental scientist with the State and I tell people where they can put their used oil and scrap tires and hazardous waste. Wait a second… That sounds a whole lot more fun than it actually is. So **Bus Guy** … Wanna be a governmental jack-booted thug? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/12 "2006-05-04T17:59:51Z")
New Baghdad rule: All the guys have to wear pink burkas and the women get mini-skirts and tank-tops, and there’s 1,000 supply helicopters landing in 5 minutes loaded with food and water and beer and Girls Gone Wild videos and Faye Weldon novels and Slinkies. I’m a 911 dispatcher. Where do you wanna tell the cops to go first? ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/13 "2006-05-04T18:09:39Z")
I’m gonna [let the pigeon drive the bus](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/078681988X/sr=8-1/qid=1146766158/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7158997-2915923?%5Fencoding=UTF8). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/14 "2006-05-04T18:14:33Z")
New rule for Mac techs: go to the ESWA office where I volunteer and fix that crappy old iMac someone donated a couple months ago that’s already on its deathbed. New rule for environmental scientists: when people ask [quote=DeVena ] where they can put their used oil and scrap tires and hazardous waste [/quote] “Up your ass” is now an acceptable response. New rule for the cops: any confiscated booze or weed must be dropped of at my house for, um, “Processing and Storage.” Yeah. I work for a newsletter publisher, sorting the mail and processing the orders and customer service issues therein. Have fun. **ENugent** , I love that book! ---
**Author:** ![whyiseveryonestupid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ac8455/32.png) [@whyiseveryonestupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whyiseveryonestupid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/15 "2006-05-04T21:15:09Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > I work for a newsletter publisher, sorting the mail and processing the orders and customer service issues therein. Have fun. New rule - any mail that doesn’t immediately look life-or-death important or brilliantly interesting goes in recycling. Any cheques are the property of whoever grabbed them first. Customer service is now no-mans-land, sort the issue out or babble in gibberish, however you see fit. Everyone must come into work dressed as a different cartoon character each day. I’m a mortgage consultant - knock yourselves out! ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/16 "2006-05-05T00:05:48Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > \*\*gabriela: \*\* I want to use one of those saws to cut open someone’s skull. Do they have to be dead first? > > **LOUNE:** Too late, you offered! Tell you what, you get an air conditioned van to drive. > **Luna:** I like your rule! We do it! I’ll bring spray paint for the cameras. Of couse, they have to be live! They don’t work unless they’re live. …uh… you did mean the saws, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/17 "2006-05-05T00:11:26Z")
New rule - all kids must walk a reasonable distance to their bus stops. Around here they pick up at every house. I am not kidding. I’m an AA. In an office full of cynical, sharp, bright, and rather sarcastic women. (Myself included. :D) Have at it, boss. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/18 "2006-05-05T02:06:02Z")
**LOUNE:** How’s a wet bar sound? **MacTech:** I have to put it together? Does it have to work after it’s back together? \*\*madmonk28: \*\* duck \*\*DeVena: \*\* I already am! \*\* mika: \*\* I live with two of your kind already, I fear nothing your office mates can bring!! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/19 "2006-05-05T02:26:29Z")
I’d stand on a statue and squawk at passerbys. Ha! Me? I’m a student at a university, sleep-deprived, writing an exam tomorrow. Do your worst. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263/20 "2006-05-05T02:34:34Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I’d stand on a statue and squawk at passerbys. Ha! > > Me? I’m a student at a university, sleep-deprived, writing an exam tomorrow. Do your worst. Pshaw. Been there, done that. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-be-me-for-a-while-and-ill-be-you/355263.md?page=2)