Anwyay, this morning, on a packed bus, the driver decided it was time for the school kids to obey the 'stand for adults' rule, stopped the bus, and refused to go on until all the kids had stood up and shown suitable deference to their elders.
Thankfully, I was already sitting, so wasn't involved in the body-shuffling chaos that ensued, as every school-bag wielding kid on the bus attempted to stand up at once and get an aisle-dwelling adult to take their place.
Of course, the ratio of kids to adults was about 2:1, so the aisle was instantly clogged, and it took about two minutes for the adults who wanted seats to wriggle their way through the throng to take them (and most of them honestly didn't look they cared one way or the other, and, indeed, looked a bit sheepish about the whole thing), and another minute as the many now empty seats were re-taken by school kids according to some hierarchy of ownership that was well beyond my experience to glean.
I do hate to go on about bus drivers...
oh, no, hold I don't, I love to...
Anwyay, this morning, on a packed bus, the driver decided it was time for the school kids to obey the 'stand for adults' rule, stopped the bus, and refused to go on until all the kids had stood up and shown suitable deference to their elders.
Thankfully, I was already sitting, so wasn't involved in the body-shuffling chaos that ensued, as every school-bag wielding kid on the bus attempted to stand up at once and get an aisle-dwelling adult to take their place.
Of course, the ratio of kids to adults was about 2:1, so the aisle was instantly clogged, and it took about two minutes for the adults who wanted seats to wriggle their way through the throng to take them (and most of them honestly didn't look they cared one way or the other, and, indeed, looked a bit sheepish about the whole thing), and another minute as the many now empty seats were re-taken by school kids according to some hierarchy of ownership that was well beyond my experience to glean.
Madness.