This was quite an interesting read.
Not nearly quite as evil, but just about as crazy, we recently had a woman in our neighborhood who was outraged by the bus driver being late. She actually tracked the bus stop time every day, and complained about her being as much as 3 minutes late. She would often follow the bus to school in her car. She met with the principal and superintendent of the school several times over the course of the school year, citing concerns about safety during cold weather, and insisting the driver needs to be fired.
The bus driver actually lives across the street from her. The bus stopped less than 100 feet from her front door and was the first stop of the day, so the driver would step out of her house, onto the bus, move forward 20 feet and pick up the kids. This is the first of a total of 4 or 5 stops. Our neighborhood is half a mile from the school and the kids have never been late for class. The schedule is pretty well padded.
The superintendent finally solved this "problem" by swapping bus drivers. The "bad" driver didn't lose her job, but got a new route (on the other side of the neighborhood). I haven't heard if she has any complaints about the new guy.
Similar to the Easter's story, the real question is what did the bus driver do to deserve such harassment? The only thing we can figure out is that the bus driver had made the crazy mom's kid sit at the front of the bus because he was acting up.
What is it about our society that we get so worked up about such petty crap?
Travis Rassat
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