Originally Posted By: Susan


Was she using her cell phone? Fell asleep? Heart attack? Stroke?

Sue


Never underestimate how stupid and unaware people can be.

I was sitting at a mom-n-pop burger stand having lunch and a full sized yellow school bus pulls up to a light at the adjoining side street. There was no traffic to speak of on the main drag and none at all, but for two vehicles, on this side street. It was daylight, lunchtime, and no fog, smoke or precipitation present. Visibility for miles.

The school buss, without kids, is sitting there motionless waiting for the light to change. Then a late model Oldsmobile, a real barge, comes down the street at maybe five miles an hour. And simply doesn't stop. There was no screech of brakes. No skid marks. The car hits the bus square in the back and the bumper takes out the windshield and half the roof.

After the police arrive the car owner, who luckily ducked under the dash at the last second to avoid being decapitated, backs the car out from under the bus and and pulls into the parking space beside me. The brakes were fine and there was nothing wrong with his vision.

I asked the guy what happened and he claimed that he "didn't see the bus". I smiled and drove off. Because, what can one say to a person who "didn't see" the eight-foot wide, ten foot tall, school bus yellow bus with a black and foot wide yellow safety-striped bumper on a bright, clear day.

If there is any possible way for people to screw up it is a sure thing that given time someone will screw up.