{"id":1365,"date":"2009-02-13T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T09:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2011-05-13T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T08:09:54","slug":"joy-oh-joy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"Joy! Oh, Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I did 63 duty which has the usual two times Winchester to Salisbury in it. But the difference between this duty and all others is 15 minutes of HELL on the school run in it. I’m going to name and shame what for me are the worst behaved school kids in Hampshire – if not the world! Stand up (and be counted) Test Valley School<\/a>, Stockbridge!<\/p>\n

It is our burden to have to transport the attendeees (I hesitate to call them children or passengers because it sounds too normal) from Kings Somborne to Stockbridge and back. It’s difficult, no impossible, to imagine a more surly unruly mob than these ……. attendees. Going to school is bad enough but they save the real misery (for the driver) for the return trip. As soon as they are boarded the 50 odd attendees are making more noise than 1,000 baboons in a cage with a firecracker. As the bus drives off the window opening and closing begins. I’ll correct that, not opening and closing in the normal sense, but opening and them immediately slamming shut as loudly as possible as many trimes per second as possible. Those not engaged in window slamming but with access to a bell push are working their fingers to the bone on it. The poor souls who can’t reach either a bell push or a window to slam keep themselves occupied in mock ( it may be real) fighting. Rushing up and down the aisle, pulling other attendees coats off them, swinging their bags around in the air, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea how they know they’re nearing Kings Somborne because they’re so involved in their disruptive activities but some how they do. At this point they all stand up in the aisle and those at the back start to push. At this point we’re still about 1 mile from Kings Somborne and the bus is travelling on a windy narrow road. If something big like another bus, or a lorry, comes around the corner at you then you’ve got to brake and they all fly forward. I’ve learnt that it’s useless shouting at them, they just push harder from the back! Ah, well. If they get themselves killed it will only improve the gene pool!<\/p>\n

The Joy! Oh, Joy! heading is because today when I pulled up at the first pick up point no one was there. No one at the second either. I then realised, not that we’d been told, that they were starting half-term a day earlier than expected. I couldn’t have been happier if I’d won the lottery on a roll over week!<\/p>\n

Having named and shamed Test Valley School it’s only fair that I show how different it can be. Stand up for a round of applause, my other school run, Testbourne School<\/a>, Whitchurch. A more pleasant, polite, bunch of young people would be hard to imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I did 63 duty which has the usual two times Winchester to Salisbury in it. But the difference between this duty and all others is 15 minutes of HELL on the school run in it. I’m going to name and shame what for me are the worst behaved school kids in Hampshire – if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}