This sign certainly came to exist after some Karen was late and complained that the bus didn’t wait for her to arrive.
I picked up a package from the post office. They had a sign saying “ring the bell once for service, two or more for a weather report”. I image this has a similar back story.
I don’t get it. Is this a play on whether they report to you or not?
I might have said “two or more to speak with our complaint department.”
Customers only get service if they ring the bell once. If Karen comes and rings the bell ten times, Karen won’t get the service she wants. Instead she’ll get an inane conversation about the weather
I mean, if people expect the bus to be late, they’ll get flabbergasted when it arrives on time for once
I grew up in a smallish town where the bus was ALWAYS 2-3 minutes late.
Unless you were counting on it, in which case it would miraculously be on time for the first time in months if not years 😄
I barely ever check the timetables for whatever bus I’m taking. The buses are so frequent that I just go wait at the bus stop. I almost always get a ride within 10 minutes.
I work in retail.
I guarantee this is 100% necessary and also 100% ineffective.
I grew up watching PBS; Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, The Electric Company, 321 Contact, that weird math show with the math cops… all the classroom ASSET programming, and so on.
I lived in the back-country so I assumed that everyone was into learning and being smart and understanding how everything works. I thought “Wow the future will be grand if so many people my age grew up watching the same things and wanting to learn and read and think!”
Holy shit, the last several decades have been a massive disappointment. Like, crippling depression disappointment.
Yeah, I feel you. I’m in the same boat.
Hey, you remember that PBS math show—can’t remember the name—where a group of kids go into cyberspace and have to do math shit to defeat this villain dude? Best fucking shit ever. Lol.
Edit: Figured it out! It’s Cyberchase! Like I said: best. shit. ever.
Was it one of the segments in Square One Television?
I was home taught in the UK. Have a real love for learning that’s kick-started me into a career in computing that I’ve kept going for over two decades. Can’t stop, won’t stop reading, learning and improving. The number of colleagues I’ve had who just want a TL;DR on a new tech, software, plugin or system is too many. It’s our job to understand it, so we can build something so that others don’t have to. If you don’t want to understand, you’re in the wrong job role.
I got passed by a bus multiple times, called and complained but they said he probably didn’t see me,
I waved a torch and stepped into the road to force him to stop, he then let me on but proceeded to yell at me that i shouldn’t take the bus because he didn’t want to stop at my stop, despite it being on his schedule
So yeah i guess not being at the stop leads to you missing the bus, but being at the stop doesn’t necessarily help
I saw some people here do something similar to get the bus to stop. They got on, the bus driver chewed them out, then told them to get off the bus and wait for the next one or they’d call the cops.
What’s really fun is when I’m at the stop (and had been for the past hour) and watch the bus go by without so much as slowing down. Then I have to call my job and explain that the bus skipped me.
Holy Cow! I was going to say “failure to be at the bus stop 10 minutes before the scheduled time will result…” But 1 hour and a fly by? Infuriating.
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