Us lot..on the buses,old days

When I was starting school (age 5'ish) we lived 2.9 miles from School. The regulations were that pupils living 3 miles away were entitled to free bus travel.
I had a 2.9 mile walk each way (with other similarly badly off kiddiwinks). It made it a long day - until there was an accident and one of the kids got badly hurt. We then qualified for free travel

 

This is not the same thing, but you've just reminded me of something that had me in uncontrollable fits of laughter.

On the bus to work once, the route took us through a little skinny bit of road with a few shops on it and a very tight bend. Awkward enough for any vehicle, but a nightmare for buses. To make matters infinitely worse, there were always lots of cars illegally parked on double yellows on that little bit of road.

One time, the bus driver was very carefully negotiating his way through this insanely tight piece of road. One of the illegally parked cars was a very expensive looking BMW 4x4. I was sat near the back of the bus, and I saw the gap between me and this BMW closing. I thought to myself, 'shall I warn the bus driver?', then decided not to. Moments later the the bus crushed the car's wing mirror. It didn't knock the mirror off, it crushed it into little shards that sprinkled all over the floor. After that little lesson, I expect the owner of that particular car would probably think twice about parking illegally with absolutely no regard for other road users.[/quote]

 

I remember that now adding the 4 ticket numbers to get a 21 , what a dim and distant memory that was ! Must be why I like a game of Pontoon now .