Furious at Stagecoach

[Squiggles]

Its good to hear they're doing something about what happened though

Thats your opinion, which is obviously suspect to start with.

[The Pastor]

ranty dave, does your school do a walking bus? exersise and safty. Ring up and ask.

[RantyDave]

ranty dave, does your school do a walking bus? exersise and safty.

No, they don't. But agreed that this would be a great way to go. I still think it's a bit of a trek for a five year old but a 'scooter' walking bus might be doable real soon now.

Dave

[The Pastor]

No, they don't. But agreed that this would be a great way to go. I still think it's a bit of a trek for a five year old but a 'scooter' walking bus might be doable real soon now.

Dave

sorry dude, you sound like a freeking sap.

I used to walk 20 miles to school IN THE SNOW. Now back in those days we didnt have enough money for shoes let alone a jumper. We made do with old rubbish sacks we found - washed them out and hanged them up to try.

Just think about that when you have you late with sugar and 3 diferant styles of cream. Not everyone had it as sweet as you did, alot of men died for your freedom and this is your attiute?

Nz and being a kiwi used to be about getting the shit done. Not complaining all the time.

[Skyryder]

sorry dude, you sound like a freeking sap.

I used to walk 20 miles to school IN THE SNOW. Now back in those days we didnt have enough money for shoes let alone a jumper. We made do with old rubbish sacks we found - washed them out and hanged them up to try.

Fuck and you think you were hard done by. We were so poor that my brother and I had only one pair of shoes and one pair of gloves between us.

We'd take turns. When he had the shoes I had the gloves and walked twenty miles on my hands.
And don't talk to me about cow pats. I fell in a fresh one and nearly drowned.

Skyryder

[The Pastor]

Fuck and you think you were hard done by. We were so poor that my brother and I had only one pair of shoes and one pair of gloves between us.

We'd take turns. When he had the shoes I had the gloves and walked twenty miles on my hands.
And don't talk to me about cow pats. I fell in a fresh one and nearly drowned.

Skyryder

Mate! Mittens! You lived in luxuray! We never had mittens! We used to use news paper and wrap up like a christmas present (we didnt know what a chirstmas present looked like but some rich guy with mittens told us this) that was of cource untill mondays when we could sell out used newspapers for 1 cent per kg of newspaper at the recycleing plant 20km away.
One day I found a bike abandend down a gully on the side of the road, it had no seat and the tires were shot so i stuffed the tires really good with straw, wasnt the best but it worked. I had to sell it to timmay for 20 cents as we needed the money to buy our cabbage for the next months "soup" which really wasnt a soup more like water and a bit of moldy cabbage on top. Oh those were the days!

[Steam]

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

[Dafe]

Lucky for you RantyDave, The south pacific manager of stage coach lives right here in Wellington. He has an apartment on Oriental Parade.
He hates getting interrupted at home..........
If you want a physical address, PM me.

[Steam]

The south pacific manager of stage coach lives right here in Wellington.

He must have been the guy who my boss (also a public transport operator) was taking to the other week. He was sad that passenger numbers were down and was pondering why gloomily. My boss (and the rest of Wellington) knew exactly why, but my boss was tactful enough not to say "cos you don't have enough drivers, and your rostering system is bunk, and your drivers disrupted more than a week of buses because you wouldn't listen to their demands."

Heh, it was funny to listen to, I was right there.

[The Pastor]

busses kill people.

700 people a year die from deisil emissions.

[Korea]

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Luxury!
We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'of gravel, work a twenty hour day at the mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle... if we were lucky!

[ajturbo]

Same rezon u didn't manage 2 lern inglish at skool.

Seriously - it's a long trek for a five year old to do twice in one day. I have work to attend to and while being a bit late due to punting her onto the bus is one thing, taking an entire hour (at least) to walk her to school and back is out of the question. We also have a six month old to contend with - writing one parent off almost permanently.

Dave

2-3ks.. 5year... it is your call, but to me it would have been an adventure! to walk there and back...
but SHE is 5, (i would make her walk it from her 6th burpday.. as a treat!lol)
BUT the issue is with the bus Co...

the other day i was talking with a teacher, who had orgainised a trip with a couple of classes (5-7year olds).. some of the parents took some of the kids off somewhere else..... grrrr.. bus had to wait 10min.... donimo effect started!