I picked up a package from the post office. They had a sign saying "ring the bell once for service, two or more for a weather report". I image this has a similar back story.

I grew up in a smallish town where the bus was ALWAYS 2-3 minutes late.

Unless you were counting on it, in which case it would miraculously be on time for the first time in months if not years 😄

even when i'm late i always go to the bus stop anyway because the chances are the bus hasn't even arrived yet lol

My bus to work has only 2 options, 10 minutes early with no tracking, or the tracking displaying "2 minutes away" for 20 minutes straight minutes after it was supposed to arrive.

I barely ever check the timetables for whatever bus I'm taking. The buses are so frequent that I just go wait at the bus stop. I almost always get a ride within 10 minutes.

I grew up watching PBS; Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, The Electric Company, 321 Contact, that weird math show with the math cops... all the classroom ASSET programming, and so on.

I lived in the back-country so I assumed that everyone was into learning and being smart and understanding how everything works. I thought "Wow the future will be grand if so many people my age grew up watching the same things and wanting to learn and read and think!"

Holy shit, the last several decades have been a massive disappointment. Like, crippling depression disappointment.

that driver sounds like an asshole

I saw some people here do something similar to get the bus to stop. They got on, the bus driver chewed them out, then told them to get off the bus and wait for the next one or they'd call the cops.

Just wave with a brick in your hand the next time

Holy Cow! I was going to say "failure to be at the bus stop 10 minutes before the scheduled time will result..." But 1 hour and a fly by? Infuriating.

(TIL Lemmy doesn't support gifs in comments.)

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To catch a bus you have to think like a bus...

About as helpful as it is to the people who aren’t at the bus stop on time.

I'm in the UK, and First basically hold the monopoly in my city. There are so few buses that they often skip stops at rush hour because they're already full, or because they've decided in the moment that your stop doesn't matter.

Nothing wakes you up during your commute like listening to a woman get fired over the phone because she's going to be late for work, despite still being 60 mins early for what should be a 20 min journey.