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"A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means.
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I just had to look up what a 5th point harness was, we didn't have seatbelts on school buses most of the time. If we did, they were usually one strap that covered the entire bench for multiple people.
How are you guys supposed to hit your head on the roof going over a speed bump with harnesses like that?
I remember when I was in high school a bit ago, when in the bus (which was pretty much just a public transport one with a privately employed driver and a limit for only students to be on it,) we were going over a bridge in our route, and it had an abrupt drop off at the end, and a lot of the time, the drivers would speed up a tiny bit, look into the dome mirror and see the students at the back (who were the loudest assholes imaginable) would get launched directly into the roof, and the drivers would quietly giggle to themselves.
Yeah bus drivers are fun, I had one that got suspended when they found out he got 3 speeding tickets driving us to school one year. I guess it isn't a direct cops report it to the school, a middle school student has to tell their parents and the parents have to say something to the school before they realized lol
Haha yeah that’s happened a few times here too! Some of them speed in such a fashion that you occasionally get jolted because they accidentally hit the kerb but kept speeding afterwards anyway.
What I did hate about being on the bus however was the fact the school mandated that drivers must skip a dozen stops (pretty much being like 4km from the school at that point, which most students live closer than that 4km,) and when the driver that day actually adheres to that “mandate”, many students freak out and call the police, automatically assuming they’re kidnapped (which was honestly pretty funny considering how absurd it is.) Then again though, a solid 95% of drivers thought that rule was bs, so they kinda still allowed students to get off at the next stop from the school anyway, which was a laughable 10 metres from the first.
Those school buses can generate a lot of g-forces when doing high speed cornering.