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June 9, 2010

Move Your Ass

Ok all, this got me so fired up at 7am this morning that I have to vent about it! I’m up at 4:20 this morning, eat a little something and am at the gym by 5am. I get in a very painful yet rewarding hour long workout and then head back home to shower and and get ready for work. I’m in a good mood, feeling accomplished and surprisingly awake and ready to go. I may even say that I’m feeling motivated as well. I get in my car and proceed down the usual roads I take to drive to TWC. As soon as I turn onto Guilderland Ave. I see a school bus pulling over to the side of the road and activating their “STOP” signs. I’m sure we can all agree that though this usually only takes a half minute of our time its pretty annoying. So I stop and wait. I watch about half a dozen kids load onto the bus. The I wait some more. Still waiting. The STOP signs aren’t going in. I’m thinking to myself “what the hell is this guy waiting for?” Maybe he has to wait for the kids to sit down…..ok….TIC TOC….plenty of time has passed for the runts to plant their ass in a seat.
Still nothing.

I look to my right and I notice a young kid walking up the street. They cant be waiting for him, he’s moving slower than molasses! Right foot, left foot, looking all around, not a care in the world and certainty no sense of urgency. As he’s  getting closer to the bus I realize that the bus IS waiting for him! You gotta be kidding me! This kid is unfreaking believable! I could get on my hands and knees and crawl faster than this kid is walking! He FINALLY makes it up the stairs of the bus and I shift my car from neutral to first and get ready to go.

Still nothing.

WTF IS GOING ON?!?! WHY AREN’T WE ALLOWED TO GO YET?!?!

I look to my right again and there are two more kids walking up the street. No way…..this isn’t happening…I’m about to wake up in my bed and discover that this was all a dream. NOPE! Two more kids, walking up the street, school bus waiting. I didn’t think  it was possible for anyone to walk slower than the first kid, but I was wrong. This is yet another example of how the saying “It cant get any worse”, as mentioned in Volume 3 of my C.I.G.s series, is often erroneous. At this point in time my heart is pounding in my chest and I roll the window down to yell “Lets go you little bastards!! Put a freakin hop in your step would ya?!?” I did not actually yell this. I reaaaally wanted to but figured I would look completely insane. I was cursing and I know that the bus driver was reading my lips! These two kids really got under my skin. Who do they think they are? Strolling down the street like a Sunday afternoon, probably just did a wake and bake and are high as hell…I mean… I was at that age…but Jesus, move your ass!

3.5 minutes. That is completely ridiculous.

I can not believe the bus waited for them. When I was a kid (man I feel old saying that) you could be full force sprinting with sweat beads dripping down your face trying to catch the bus and you know what they would do? They would drive off, probably laughing at your pathetic ass. Then you would get beat half  the way to school by the parent that now had to drive you in. What happened to these days?!?!?

I’m a little embarrassed that I got so worked up about this but it reaaaally irked me!

Thanks for listening and I hope you never experience this annoyance. Until next time, I gotta run!

2 Comments »

  1. Hahaha I feel your pain!! The same thing happened to me on my way to a doctor’s appointment. I timed 5 minutes. No joke. The worst part about it was that the bus stopped right in front of the entrance to the parking lot that I needed to be in. I could see my turn!! We weren’t sitting there waiting for kids though, we were waiting for a parent to get out of her stupid car to meet her child at the door of the bus. THEN the mother decides she needed to have a conversation with the bus driver!! Uuughhh! Lol

    Comment by Erin — June 9, 2010 @ 11:30 am

  2. Wow…you really need to work on your anger issues

    Comment by Pooch — June 9, 2010 @ 2:56 pm

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